Coppedge v JPL Awaits Decision
Trial winds down for NASA specialist who claims firing was over intelligent design beliefs, Washington Post
“A former computer specialist with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was laid off because he was combative and didn’t keep his skills sharp — not because he advocated for his belief in intelligent design while at work, an attorney said Monday in a case that plays on the tensions over the origins-of-life concept. David Coppedge, who worked on NASA’s Cassini mission exploring Saturn and its many moons, sued JPL for wrongful termination in a case that has generated intense interest among proponents of intelligent design — the idea that life is too complex to have evolved through evolution alone.”
I really don’t see the point of this. There are plenty of people who have strong advocacies and beliefs who leave it out of the workplace. Comparing it to other people with a civil rights or feminist agenda is a non-qualifier. If anyone harassed people with a different agenda, even after being warned they would suffer a similar fate.
His lawyer sounds like a real winner:
“Imagine if employees were told, stop pushing your gay agenda or stop
pushing your feminist agenda, your civil rights agenda?” Becker said.
“This is just another way that … shows it’s prejudice and it’s another
shifting explanation to provide cover.”
Let see he first argues it a science and then claims it
is a religion belief after he is laid off. Talk about your village
idiot. You can’t have it both ways.
and in 1968 the Apollo astronauts read Gen on Christmas eave.
http://history.nasa.gov/40t…