Posted on 06/19/2006 11:55:57 AM PDT by Jay777
The valedictorian of Foothill High, Brittany McComb, decided to share her faith voluntarily at her graduation cermony. However, before she could get to the part that meant the most to her, Christ, her microphone went dead. Her speech was in no way endorsed by her school, however the school directly participated in censoring her free speech.
The First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The judicial branch has extended the meaning of this amendment to any government body, not just Congress. However, I still don’t understand how so many ignore the part that says ” or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This is exactly what the school did to this young girl, prohibited the free exercize of her religious expression.
From the Review Journal we learn: The decision to cut short McComb’s commencement speech Thursday at The Orleans drew jeers from the nearly 400 graduates and their families that went on for several minutes.
However, Clark County School District officials and an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union said Friday that cutting McComb’s mic was the right call. Graduation ceremonies are school-sponsored events, a stance supported by federal court rulings, and as such may include religious references but not proselytizing, they said.
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Do you go to a football game if you don't want to be 'footballed' at?
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aclu=cookoo
Well thank God they didn't pull the plug on a Muslim! the ACLU would have been screaming "Free speech" from the top of their socialist little lungs!
"So if she had started talking about how her faith in Mohammed and Islamic discipline had helped her and they cut her mike off, would you still be so outraged?"
Cutting off the mic in that case would never happen. If a Muslim student began that type of speech, the school leaders would be so impressed they would create a new curriculum.
No, I do not go to a game [and why would I pay for a ticket?]
The ACLU would fight for her rights IF her views were as anti-christian/anti-american as theirs seem to be. I guess that they consider free-speach to only be so if it agrees with their agenda.
If she were a Muslim, she wouldn't be valedictorian. And they certainly wouldn't cut off a Muslim's mic for fear the Muslims would cut off the head of the ACLU lawyer. Some religions just aren't into turning the other cheek.
Welcome to America of the 21st Century where Christian speech is offensive and Christian subject matter deserves a PG-13 rating.
Last I checked there is a right to freedom of speech. There isn't a right to not be offended. Free speech wins.
Finally, courts started coming around to the idea that reasonable limits on student attire were appropriate and permissible, and they should come around to that idea about ALL kinds of speech as well.
The truth of the matter is that before politically directed interference by the ACLU against public schools, those schools could always limit what they considered vulgar or inappropriate clothing, language, expression, and even attitudes that were over the top.
The leftist crowd led by extremist groups like the ACLU began to use parents and students to sue schools and school boards that did not give up on 200 years of American culture and begin to let any vulgar dressed, foul-mouthed, students spread the ACLU's anti-God political revolution to reinvent America through the government monopoly of education.
The ACLU types needed to use people for progressive lawsuits so that the leftist courts could get involved and 'walla', the leftwing revision of the public schools and the law was in place.
Students who served the left's politics, subversive intents, and anti-God revolution we not limited by the ACLU in any way. They never come out against speech that advances their leftist cause, they only sue those who stand with 200 years of American culture and morality which the ACLU fights with all its energy.
The ACLU types only began to step in if a conservative religious person spoke up with a forcefullness approaching that of the decades of anti-Christian vulgarity and leftwing politics that fights against the ACLU humanist utopia.
Clarification: The ACLU types only begin to step in if a conservative religious person speaks up with words that run contrary to the ACLU and fights against the ACLU humanist utopia.
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