My Way News - JPL worker sues over intelligent design demotion
My Way News reports: "A Jet Propulsion Laboratory worker who distributed religious DVDs on the job is suing the JPL for discrimination after he was demoted. David Coppedge's lawsuit filed last week in Los Angeles County says he was demoted last April for sharing his views in the workplace. He wants a court order allowing him to discuss his beliefs."

Comment: Don't tell anyone at work that you believe in God, it could get you fired. Really? Is that were we are now? I think what we are seeing here acted out in the courts is the legal validation of the previously informal presumption that anyone working at a scientific institution will be an atheist or at least an agnostic. We could also see this as establishing a new social norm: any expression of religious faith in the workplace creates a hostile work environment and must be discouraged. I can't wait to see the blowback when they start firing followers of that other great religion of peace. Heads will roll. Oh wait, they don't get singled out for persecution, never mind.