[colorado tanker]

This is a poor test case. If you read her remarks, she went well beyond giving credit to Christ and her faith for her success, she was proselytizing, evangelizing. IMHO, that has no place in a public high school commencement address.

OTOH, isn't it ridiculous they had fifteen "valedictorians"??

[sirchtruth]

If you read her remarks, she went well beyond giving credit to Christ and her faith for her success, she was proselytizing, evangelizing. IMHO, that has no place in a public high school commencement address.

When it was Corder's turn, she encouraged the audience to get to know Jesus Christ.

I don't know if this was all the remarks she made about Christ, but do you really find this inappropiate? Name one thing about Jesus, The Christ, which is insulting? It amazes to me we have to have these discussion about Jesus because people are too ignorant to go look in the most published book ever to find out about what he stands for. If she ask people to get to know JFK, George Washington, or Mother Theresa would you have a problem with that? Why would any one have a problem about Jesus, when he is so much more righteous than any of these?

There is absolutely no law, nor any insult that prohibits people in any public setting from discussing or evangelizing about Jesus Christ, if you don't like it, leave.

[kimoajax]

BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE....

Sir, That you would take offense affirms the truth of scripture.

[MaxMax]

Your right, how dare her! They should destroy her papers and
forfeit all of her credits, then have her forehead tattoed with a number!

/s

[Blood of Tyrants]

If you read her remarks, she went well beyond giving credit to Christ and her faith for her success, she was proselytizing,

Is there some exception for the freedom of religion or freedom of speech written that says that students may not practice the tenets of Christianity at school? Where does it say that a student may not do that? My copy of the Constitution says no such thing. It just says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" and THIS looks a heck of a lot like "prohibiting free exercise thereof".

[LachlanMinnesota]

30 seconds to say what she will is still protected by free speech, even if it was a bit preachy. Whether she should have said it is different than whther she is allowed to say it.

[whatisthetruth]

She was representing herself and giving her opinion, how does that constitute the state proselytizing a religion?

[keats5]

She has every right to speak about her faith in a commencement address. She’s not the state. The constitution prohibits the state sponsored school from silencing students’ religious speech.