Posted on 06/07/2013 5:50:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
This cannot be repeated enough
Where are all the “Rules are Rules” Freepers out there?
I’d say this fellow deserves a feather in his cap.
Why does it bother atheists so much if they don’t believe in God? They are obsessed with God.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Anti-theists are obsessed with CONTROL.
Tell the anti-religionists to blow it out their butts.
It’s time Americans got fed up with this BS of a small minority of God -haters telling us how to live.
SCREW em.
“he ripped up his pre-approved graduation speech”
I love what he did to the notion that one awarded top education honors is incompetent to write a cogent legal speech.
Had the valedictorian been a black female, there would be no screaming from the Leftists.
Had the valedictorian started yodeling the Muslim call to prayer, they would have had orgasms in the press section.
Tell me I’m wrong.
Was there an individual at the graduation who was actually “offended”, traumatized, berated, had their feelings hurt, feel their constitutional rights had been violated, scarred for life, etc....??
If the kid's not complaining about the principal's instructions to avoid God, I don't see any cause of action.
The Atheists will just have to take their lumps on this one. Besides, they're the ones who asked for the original Regents v.... case. Maybe they want to go back to having schools dictate prayer to students.....
Major kudos to Mr. Costner!
And thank you to Roy’s parents. You’ve done an excellent job and you are right to be extrememly proud.
I wish Roy all the best and may God richly reward you here, as well as in Heaven.
Rules are rules. In particular the First Amendment protects our God-given right to the free exercise of religion. This was explicitly done without any government approval, so even the most rabid ACLU/FFRF moron cannot claim that it constitutes a government establishment of a state religion. The rules won, and those who want to be our rulers lost.
More open defiance is needed.
Exactly
I would suggest the anti-Christians ask the cheering crowd whether they felt this speaker had “inflicted” prayer on them. I’d say, judging from their reaction, that if anything was being inflicted, it was the godlessness of the haters.
Well said!
I agree, but this is a start. We need to pray that others follow
He not only wrote one, he wrote two. And he was able to give his speech with the written copy out of his possession. What’s the problem?
Well done, young man.
I’m “rules are rules” Freeper, but I’m trying to understand your admonition. What “rule of law” Freepers like me want is for EVERYONE to follow the LAW, which is the Common Law first, the Constitution second, then the various CONSTITUTIONAL statutes that descend from local, state, and federal authorities. What the boy did was WELL WITHIN THE LAW, so I support it wholeheartedly. You cannot COMMAND speech, that is AGAINST the law.
As long as a Buddist valedictorian can say a prayer to Buddah, or a Hindu can pray to Krishna, or an atheist valedictorian can thank his parents for raising him to be a free thinker like Thomas Jefferson ... it’s all good. If you want Christian prayer to be
allowed then you may have to sit through, Wiccan prayer, or Voodo prayer
whether you like it or not and without complaining. And something tells me
there would be lots of complaints.
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