CTA's 2nd Brief & Response to Plaintiff's 1st Brief - National Center ...

Case: 09-56689 07/26/2010 Page: 28 of 80 ID: 7418245 DktEntry: 45-1
Dr. Corbett's Positive and Sympathetic Comments About Reli~ion
Dr. Corbett spoke to his AP Euro class about a former Christian fundamentalist
student whom Dr. Corbett called "absolutely brilliant." Dr. Corbett stated that he and
another teacher (whom Dr. Corbett describes as a friend and fundamentalist
Christian) tried to get the student to attend a more academically challenging school
than Biola [Bible Instititute of Los Angeles] University. Dr. Corbett indicated that
he expected that student to attend a school like Harvard Divinity School someday.
(ER 13, pp.268-69.)
Dr. Corbett told his students that he would tell them one "religious belief' of
his own: "I strongly believe that people should not be like the Pharisees and pray on
street comers where people can take notice. I think if they come to God, they should
come to him in private." (ER 7, p. 142.)
Dr. Corbett spoke positively and sympathetically about Orthodox Armenian
priests who were killed by the Turks because they were guardians of Armenian
culture. (SER 44, p. 1 16.) Dr. Corbett told his students while lecturing on political
absolutism, democracy, and the "general will" on which Rousseau relied, "Yes, you
do not want to be a Jew in the society where people have decided, 'These are the
values we are going to use.' You do not want to be anything that's outside the
mainstream." (ER 7, p. 14 1:5-8.)