PORTLAND – Former Benson High School teacher, Bill Diss, who was fired last year for openly opposing Planned Parenthood, has filed a lawsuit against Portland Public Schools claiming wrongful termination.

According to OregonLive.com, the 38-page lawsuit asserts that Diss’ “troubles with the district began in February 2007 when he actively began to protest plans for a Planned Parenthood headquarters in Northeast Portland.”

In 2009, Planned Parenthood filed a police report and a complaint against Diss with the state Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, saying he improperly took banners and signs from the clinic’s groundbreaking site months earlier. Diss said he committed no crime and no charges were filed by police.

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According to the lawsuit against the district:

As the attention mounted, the plaintiff was summoned for questioning by Benson High School administrators. He was interrogated about his activities by the principal and by an attorney for the District. The activities in question occurred on his own time, not at school, nonetheless he was specifically instructed not to mention the fact that he was a teacher or where he worked when making public statements.

Diss claims that in 2012, he was surprised and distressed when employees from Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette’s Teen Outreach Program showed up to his tutorial class to talk to students about their sexual activities and methods of contraception.

After learning that Planned Parenthood would continue to visit his classroom and he was expected to “facilitate their interactions with students,” Diss asked school administrators to be dismissed from the presentations for religious preference. His request was denied.

According to Oregon Live’s report on the lawsuit:

Diss grew more concerned when he saw Planned Parenthood offer students food and gift certificates to attend its optional Teen Outreach Program — and promise students up to $30 cash to complete a survey on their sexual activities, the suit states. The program focuses on preventing teen pregnancy and improving academic success, according to Planned Parenthood’s website.

People he knew in the Vietnamese community also told him that promotional material written in Vietnamese and passed out by Planned Parenthood wrongly stated that Diss supported the organization’s Teen Outreach Program…

Diss says he was suspended in October of 2012 for refusing to allow Planned Parenthood presenters into his classroom.

According to Diss, that’s when he became a target of the administration and they began observing and evaluating him on “the most minute aspects of his teaching.”

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A short time later, Diss, who regularly ended his classes with the words “God Bless,” received an email from Vice Principal Jeandre Carbone asking him to stop using those words in his communications with her, staff, parents and students.

In March of 2013, the school board decided not to extend Diss’ contract and, according to the lawsuit, he was escorted off school grounds and told not to return for any reason.

At his pre-termination hearing, administrators testified that Diss was often rude to students and had a pattern of behavior that was damaging to his relationships with students and co-workers.

Diss, who had often organized outside of school to oppose Planned Parenthood and their access to children through the districts’ schools, contended that he was being unfairly targeted because of his pro-life views.

At the December 2013 school board meeting wherein Diss was terminated, reports Oregon Live, several supporters criticized the board and defended Diss, some even holding signs that read, “We Love Mr. Diss”.

Diss lost his job, claims the lawsuit, despite receiving proficient and exceptional ratings in job performance reviews.

According to the Washington Times, Diss was the only teacher in Oregon to earn the distinction of being credentialed to teach computer science for college credit at the high school level.

He taught for more than a decade at Benson High, a high needs school with a 75 percent minority population, and, according to the Times report, earned special recognition for his work with at-risk black students and for helping to stop gang violence in Portland parks.

Columbia Willamette was one of several Planned Parenthood affiliates to receive a grant through President Obama’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI). According to Planned Parenthood, the grants were to be used to reach more students and to replicate their comprehensive sex education “Teen Outreach Program.”

The program had already enraged parents in Texas schools when the grants were awarded.