Those active in Portland’s pro-life community likely know Marie Barzen and Therese Ruesink. The women have been involved with pro-life advocacy for nearly
trouble with schools. booted for his beliefs when a dedicated teacher of 11 years stood up for his pro-life views in the classroom, the school had no hesitation in firing him. that portland, oregon high school math and computer science teacher, bill diss, joins us now live from portland. good morning to you. good morning. how are you today? i m doing okay. i m doing better than you. i have a job. you don t. why did they fire you? well, it had been a process for six years. i had had very good reviews over at the high school. then in 2007 i started to be involved with the northeast community with a variety of churches and a mosque to stop planned parenthood from building a huge center. and that caused quite a bit of
scrutiny. in one year one of the principals asked me quite a few questions about what i was doing on my off time and what my sign said, what i told people, what i spoke to people about in church and then finally had to find a lawyer. then they backed off wait a minute, mr. diss. the principal wanted to know what you said in church? yes, yes. she was upset that the pastors introduced me as a teacher from benson high school. she brought in a district lawyer and the district lawyer and the principal told me i shouldn t even say i was a teacher because someone might ask if i was a teacher, then they might ask where i work. sure. that was one incident. another one was when the school administration wanted planned parenthood to come in and talk to your math class? i would understand maybe health class, sports class. but math class?