BTW, Christians are required to call folks to Christ. Other groups look at proselytizing as being somehow dirty. Obviously conflict might occur from time to time, but when a Christian accepts you to accept the Lord he is hardly excluding you.
The government does not have the authority under our Constitution to prohibit this sort of thing.
The goovernment--in this case a public school--has no right to underwrite it either, and yet they did.
There's plenty of real overreaching by the ACLU. Don't blow your case by defending this conduct as appropriate.
Yeah, but non-Christians tend to not like that. They seem to think that it implies that their religion is inferior. And believe it or not, a lot of people don't think a graduation ceremony is the place to promote religious exclusionism. Go figure.
BTW, Christians are required to call folks to Christ. Other groups look at proselytizing as being somehow dirty.
It's not dirty at all. It's a religious calling. But that doesn't mean you gotta constantly scream it at the top of your lungs every chance you get, or that other people should be forced to listen to you.
Obviously conflict might occur from time to time, but when a Christian accepts you to accept the Lord he is hardly excluding you.
You are 100% correct on that. Neither is a Muslim who may try to convert you or me to Islam. But speaking for myself, I'd get pissed about something like that if it was allowed at a public graduation ceremony. So that's where I'm coming from on this
The government does not have the authority under our Constitution to prohibit this sort of thing.
Like I say, I'm not talking about a freedom of speech issue. She has the right to speak, but that does not mean that it's OK for her to inject her own agenda into a publicly-funded event. The right to free speech doesn't include a publicly-financed microphone and podium.
There is no greater, more uplifting moment in a person's entire life than the moment they welcome God into their life, and I have. But I have Jewish friends that would get really upset if something like this happened, and I wouldn't blame them.