Praise God! Peace wins over injustice! Non-violence wins a small victory in America.

You may remember that I reported some time ago about a Mathematics Professor who was fired for taking a pacifist religious stance (since she is a Quaker) against the University pledge that students were expected to sign. The pledge asked students to do whatever was necessary to protect the United States of America, all that she did was to insert the word 'nonviolently' as a qualifier to the word 'necessary' - and because of that she was fired.

Well, here's the follow up story! Thank God that peace has won a victory of injustice! These truly are signs of the Kingdom of God, an eternal, peaceful, Shalom.

Atonius sez, "Marianne Kearney-Brown, the Quaker math teacher who was fired by California State University for inserting the word 'non-violently' into her loyalty oath to the state, has been reinstated after Atty General Jerry Brown clarified that the oath doesn't require employees to take up arms."

The idea that someone could be fired for refusing to sign a loyalty oath came as a surprise to many Californians who were unaware that public employees are still required to sign it. The pledge was added to the state Constitution in 1952 at the height of anti-Communist hysteria and has remained a prerequisite for public employment ever since. All state, city, county, public school, community college and public university employees are required to sign the 86-word oath. Noncitizens are exempt.

Link (Thanks, Antonius!)

See also: Cal State University fires Quaker for inserting "nonviolently" into loyalty oath

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