"School Board Fires Teacher For Branding Cross Into Students’ Skin"

Nope, religion is perfectly normal and sane. Move along, nothing to see here.

Crooks and Liars » OH School Board Fires Teacher For Branding Cross Into Students’ Skin:

"The school board of a small central Ohio community voted unanimously Friday to fire a teacher accused of preaching his Christian beliefs despite staff complaints and using a device to burn the image of a cross on students’ arms.

School board members voted 5-0 to fire Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher John Freshwater. Board attorney David Millstone said Freshwater is entitled to a hearing to challenge the dismissal.

The report came a week after a family filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Columbus against Freshwater and the school district, saying Freshwater burned a cross on a child’s arm that remained for three or four weeks."