Contentious historian David Barton has been known for his outspoken stances on homosexuality, net neutrality, and “expert” reviews of Texas textbooks. Now, however, his religious-tinged take on history may have cost a pair of Alabama public television officials their jobs.That’s the claim of a lawsuit filed in Alabama last week by former Alabama Public Television Executive Director Allan Pizzato, who was fired mid-June alongside Deputy Director and CFO Pauline Howland. Pizzato, who had worked as executive director since 2000 and was named 2011 Non-Profit CEO of the Year by the Birmingham Business Journal, is aiming the lawsuit at the Alabama Educational Television Commission’s seven members.
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