[GSlob]

There is [or must be] a right not to be bibled at, for unwilling listeners in public settings.

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

You are free to stay home.

[A Troop 1-14 Cav]

There is. The were not forced to stay there. If there was a speech about the wonderful affects of porn on our society, I as a Christian would have gottne up and left.

[Jay777]

Ha! You've gotta be kidding. There is no right not to bibled at, only the right for that person to walk away and not listen.

[Skooz]

You mean a right not to be exposed to views with which you disagree?

Only in a liberal's wet dream.

[SampleMan]

There is [or must be] a right not to be bibled at, for unwilling listeners in public settings.

I'm often an unwilling listener to speech in the public forum. No wait, I guess I am willing, as I don't get up and leave.

[Ouderkirk]

While your desire to be unbibled at presently will be followed by dhimmitude or death as an apostate at the hands of Islam

[OldFriend]

So, trash the constitution to please your ilk?

[rovenstinez]

Sorry, but she WAS the Valedictorian and she EARNED the Right to speak from her heart as to WHAT motivated her to excellency. Stupid people of the ACLU. If she got up talking about ALA, or Watanka...it would be okay.

[L.N. Smithee]

There is [or must be] a right not to be bibled at, for unwilling listeners in public settings.

Perhaps. But not in this country.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Unfortunately, this article doesn't give even the slightest hint of what she started to say, much less what she was planning to say. If she was starting a rant exhorting the audience to adopt her religious beliefs, that would have been inappropriate. On the other hand, just sharing what her own beliefs are shouldn't be a problem, unless school officials are going to prohibit any topics that could possibly offend a significant number of listeners. Somehow when graduates give leftist political rants, they don't seem to get their microphones cut off. While I don't share this young lady's religious beliefs, if I were in the audience, I'd a lot rather listen to her to explain her religious beliefs and how she thinks they helped her do well in school, than to hear a student carry on about how "we need to get guns off the street because they're killing children" or "war is never the answer" -- and I don't think the ACLU or anyone else would cut off the mike for the latter.

[alecqss]

You've just violated a similar "right" of whole of lot people.

[Dunstan McShane]

There is [or must be] a right not to be bibled at, for unwilling listeners in public settings.

There seems to be an assumption among the past couple of generations of Americans that they shall have no experience which they have not prescribed or chosen in advance--that every experience must conform to their prescriptions for reality.

I can think of no other time in which this would be regarded as a "right." You have no such right. You just don't want it to happen.

I am myself Christian, but I also am often embarrassed by those people who feel that every public gathering is an excuse to evangelize, and to do it clumsily, blurting it out as if, now that they have an audience, they are compelled to proselytize. But it would never enter my mind to translate my embarrassment into a "right" to be free from it. It might be better for me just to develop a thicker skin--or a little more tolerance.

[VeniVidiVici]

There is [or must be] a right not to be bibled at, for unwilling listeners in public settings.

You could say that about any speech. There is always somebody objecting to something. Let's just do away with the entire First Amendment and we won't have to worry about these petty impositions anymore.

[cartoonistx]

There is [or must be] a right not to be bibled at, for unwilling listeners in public settings.

It's called Freedom of Movement. You just get up and leave! Or hold your ears until the infectious free speech has passed.

[rvoitier]

Do you go to a football game if you don't want to be 'footballed' at?