A former football coach for Illinois State University was fired from his offensive coordinator job after he took down a Black Lives Matter poster from his office door and replaced it with one that “expressed his own religious and political views,” according to a lawsuit. Kurt Beathard, a former offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for the Illinois State Redbirds, filed the lawsuit on Nov. 30, saying he was fired from his post in September 2020 because he “did not toe the party line regarding the Black Lives Matter organization.” A BLM poster had been put on his office door in mid-August 2020, a time when “the campus community was dealing with tension resulting from the death of George Floyd,” the lawsuit says. Beathard took down the poster and replaced it with a handwritten sign that read, “All Lives Matter to Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
Beathard said he does not support the Black Lives Matter organization. “Throughout his career, Beathard has successfully worked with young men of all races,” the lawsuit said. “While he believes black lives matter, he is opposed to the Black Lives Matter organization because it was founded by self-described ‘trained Marxists,’ it divides human beings by skin color, and it supports violence and property destruction.”
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