[SoothingDave]

I wonder what the screams would be like here if the valedictorian was a wiccan who asked everyone to come up to the stage to join the coven, or if it was a mooslim who asked everyone to get on their knees and pray to the moon rock. I agree it is not a first amendment violation, but the graduation was not the time or place to make this call.

Exactly. Yet some one here will tell us with a straight face that they wouldn't mind.

SD

[goldstategop]

Free speech is dangerous. Which is precisely why dictatorships ban it. Here in America, if some expressed a view, I didn't like, I can rebut it. With all the problems free speech poses in a free society, I prize differences of opinion over living in a world of dull, oppressing conformity cloaked in heavy fear. You can decide you think this young woman's views are out of place. That's the point; you get to be heard as well the other person does and the government doesn't get to decide who is right. Nor do I want it to.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")