In Santa Ana, California, a sixteen-year-old sophomore at Capistrano Valley High School is suing his teacher, James Corbett, for making overtly anti-religious statements during class.

The student, Chad Farnan, claims in the lawsuit that his teacher demonstrates “a sense of hostility toward religion” that causes Christian students to “feel ostracized and treated as second-class citizens.” Farnan claims to have taped the teacher’s lectures which include such offensive statements as “when you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth” and religion is not “connected with morality.”

Farnan’s attorney claims that they “will not seek damages if the teacher is removed.”

In Madison, Wisconsin, a Tomah High School student is suing his art teacher for giving him a zero on an art assignment because it featured a cross and a reference to a biblical verse.

The assignment was to draw a landscape. The student drew a landscape with a mountain range to the right and a road leading to a large cross on the horizon. In the upper right hand of the picture he wrote “John 3:16 A sign of love.”

After completing the drawing, the teacher asked him to remove to religious references in it. He refused to do so and received a zero. The assistant principal told him that his drawing infringed upon the rights of the other students.

The lawsuit claims that other students were allowed to draw “demonic” images; moreover, there are non-Christian religious items prominently displayed in other areas of the school. Buddha and Hindu figurines are on display in a social studies classroom. A picture of another Hindu deity is on display in the school’s hallway. Even the art room itself features drawings of Medusa and the Grim Reaper.

Both of these cases give us a larger picture of the hostility Christianity faces nation-wide in the public school systems manipulated by the Academic Left. Since when has a student gotten a zero for drawing a cross? Public schools should be less concerned with riding students of their “Jesus glasses” and more concerned with teaching them Art, History, Math, Science, and other subjects.

The book Persecution by David Limbaugh presents numerous examples of this overall assault on Christianity taking place all over our country, and the secular Left is spearheading it.