IN 12 YEARS of teaching religion part-time at Broward Community College, James W. Johnson prided himself on approaching the sensitive subject objectively.
But the college does not, Johnson said in a lawsuit filed in Broward County Circuit Court in September. Johnson says BCC’s philosophy and religion department favors evangelical Protestant professors, textbooks and perspectives, using tax dollars to advance a particular religious viewpoint.
“The approach to the instruction of religion ... promot[es] a religious agenda,” Johnson maintains in court documents.
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