David Paszkiewicz, an anti-LGBTQ pastor who made headlines in 2006 for preaching in his public school classroom, is now running for public office in Kearny, New Jersey, and his long history of bigotry is once again under scrutiny.

Paszkiewicz (pass-KEV-itch) was a U.S. history teacher at Kearny High School when he first came to the public’s attention nearly 16 years ago. One of his students, Matthew LaClair, recorded several of their classes and had proof that Paszkiewicz was urging students to convert to Christianity, denying the reality of evolution, and claiming dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark.

The school district initially responded by reprimanding Paszkiewicz (a slap on the wrist, at best)… and passing a new rule forbidding kids from recording their teachers in the classroom.

The LaClairs soon filed a lawsuit over the matter. Both sides later settled the case with the district promising to conduct mandatory church/state separation training for all teachers.

In 2012, filmmaker Vic Losick made a short movie about that entire controversy called “In God We Teach,” which is now online in full: ...