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A Howell woman has filed a federal lawsuit against her school district and a high school teacher for kicking her son out of class in October 2010 because her son’s religious beliefs prevent him from accepting homosexuality.
The Thomas More Law Center filed the lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Sandra Glowacki, a Catholic, who accused Howell Public School District and teacher Johnson McDowell of violating her son’s constitutional rights.
There was no immediate comment from the district or McDowell.
The suit says McDowell kicked out Daniel Glowacki, 16, then a junior, from an economics class on Oct. 20, 2010, while the district was observing anti-bullying day and Spirit Day. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) encourages Americans to wear purple on Spirit Day to support LGBT youth who may feel harassed because of their sexual preference.
The lawsuit said the district allowed teachers to sell purple “Tyler’s Army” T-shirts in support of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman who killed himself last year after a roommate streamed an Internet video of Clementi kissing a male student. McDowell wore one of the T-shirts throughout the day and devoted his classes to promoting homosexuality, the suit said.
During his sixth-hour class, the suit said, McDowell told a female student to remove a Confederate flag belt buckle because he considered it offensive.
When Daniel Glowacki asked McDowell why it was permissible to display the rainbow flag, which represents gay pride, McDowell asked him if he supported gays, the suit said. When Glowacki said his Catholic religion prohibited him from doing so, McDowell told Glowacki and another student who shared Glowacki’s views to leave class, the suit said.
The district suspended McDowell, who was president of the Howell Education Association, for one day without pay for violating district policy but eventually rescinded the penalty to settle a grievance he filed.
The dispute became a national topic after a 14-year-old Ann Arbor student spoke in McDowell’s defense at a Howell school board meeting. The student later appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres TV show and a video of his speech was posted on the Internet.
Robert Muise, a lawyer for the Thomas More Law Center, accused the district and McDowell, with the support of the local, state and national education associations, of trying to indoctrinate students into believing homosexuality is normal and that anyone who disagrees is intolerant and hateful.
Muise said it was his client who was bullied. He wants U.S. District Judge Patrick Duggan to declare that the defendants violated Glowacki’s constitutional rights, enjoin the district and McDowell from favoring homosexuality over opposing religious viewpoints and to award damages to his clients.
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Absolutely unbelievable what parents allow school teachers and boards of education to get away with anymore. This is their children we are talking about! Wake up people!
Good for the mother!! I hope she wins big!! 
