So much for the 1st Amendment if you are Christian I guess. I thought it was HER speech to give. Guess not.
No one is safe, then. This is how freedom ends.
PING
you mean the ACLU wont advocate for Christians??
Only against us huh... Big surprise!
Wow, I just noticed it but I have those same three crosses in my house leading up the stair-well. (See pic at link).
I'm guessing the microphone wouldn't be cut off if the student stood there declaring herself homosexual and praising all the virtues of secular humanism.
This ACLU is a trip. She can`t talk, but these psycho Professors can, and do it everyday. Who was that Professor last week who was bashing everything about the white race, the US, and bashing Jews? I didn`t see the ACLU pulling no plug on that guy.
This has gotten truly bizzare. You have school districts believing it violates the US Constitution for an individual student speaker to make reference to their own religious beliefs. That just cannot be true, if it were we are living in China now, not the USA. And someone must stop schools from pulling the plug on individual comments about Christ or any other religion. IMHO the federal government ought to investigate this as a civil rights violation.
Luckily, the Commissars of Free Speech were there to protect everyone from this dangerous counterrevolutionary. Uncontrollable theism might have broken out! (/sarcasm off)
If the LIEberal DUmocrats are for "separation of church & state", then why are their rallies ALWAYS held at a black church?
Wanna bet that if a Muslim had been the valedictorian,"Praise to Allah!" wouldn't have been questioned???
"In 2003, the Clark County School Board amended district regulations on religious free speech, prohibiting district officials from organizing a prayer at graduation or selecting speakers for such events in a manner that favors religious speech or a prayer. The remainder of the amendment allows for religious expression during school ceremonies."
This sounds like a lawsuit for breaking that regulation. The speaker was the valedictorian. Editing her speech for religious references would be exactly what the law does not allow--content-based government regulation.
Here is a suggested alternate version:
"....and lastly, I would like to thank the most important person in my life. However, the school board has determined that you should not be allowed to hear me thank the most important influence in my life.....
....Also, I would like to recognize the person is most responsible for me attaining the honor of Valedictorian of my class. Again, the school board has determined that you should not be allowed to hear me thank the most important influence in my life.
So, I will tell you who is not the most important influence in my education. That is the school board. They are tasked with teaching us to reason, to think objectivley, to seek knowledge, to learn.
Yet, when we reach a reasoned conclusion, they deny us the right to tell you what that conclusion is;
When we think objectively and examine the facts, they refuse to let us tell you what those facts are;
When we gain knowledge and wisdom, they show intolerance of the insights we have gained;
What have we learned?
They are not interested in reason, objectivity, knowledge and learning. They are interested only in THEIR conclusions, THEIR dogma, THEIR version of the facts and keeping our mind closed to the greatest source of knowledge known to mankind.
Happily, I can tell you my education will not end here today but will continue. Sadly, those who seek to teach us have ceased to learn.
Thank you.
If she were a muzzie, they would be burning down the branch of the ACLU right now, the school district scumbags would be issuing apologies left and right and "Foolhills" would be erecting a Mosque on school grounds within the month.
The sheer hypocrisy of the schools continues on unabated.
Already posted and discussed to death:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652034/posts (428 posts)