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To: sirchtruth
There is a difference between rights and doing what’s appropriate. Commencement is supposed to be an occasion to celebrate the achievements of the graduates, not a time for proselytizing. You should understand that by you’re remark that if she says anything someone doesn’t like, they can leave. Really? People only graduate once, and friends and relatives travel to join in the celebration. It’s not a time to be in someone’s face trying to persuade them to change their religion.
35 posted on 08/31/2007 4:10:29 PM PDT by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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To: colorado tanker
It’s not a time to be in someone’s face trying to persuade them to change their religion.

It's the perfect time. And it's not about getting in anyone's face so they will change their religion. Look, people who obviously do not know what Jesus is all about always talk about forcing "religion," and what they so ignorantly fail to realize is when Christian's speak about Jesus they are espousing precepts, good deeds, honest values, and most importantly the Truth Jesus stands for.

It's totally ignorantly arrogant of people to not want to know or hear about a person who actually lived a life that anyone in the right mind would be proud to emulate in society.

I challenge you to name another person in history who would be a better example and taught the good valued precepts of life better than Jesus.

That's why she encouraged people "to get to know Jesus" because know matter what "religion" you are, you can not deny the absolute authority of living a life and setting an example better than Jesus.

39 posted on 08/31/2007 4:41:28 PM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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To: colorado tanker

You don’t have a right not to be offended when you go out in public. The administration of the school didn’t do it. A private citizen said what they had to say. What you seem to want is the government to suppress her speech. You don’t see any slippery slope around that? Everbody didn’t get to speak. She was awarded time based on her academic performance to make her statement but yet you want to constrain it.


42 posted on 08/31/2007 5:11:33 PM PDT by Belasarius (Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job 5:2-7)
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To: colorado tanker

My my. Such intolerance.


47 posted on 08/31/2007 5:42:09 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby (I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
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To: colorado tanker

“There is a difference between rights and doing what’s appropriate.”

Very interesting. So you believe that what YOU deem “appropriate” trumps someone else’s constitutional rights?


50 posted on 08/31/2007 6:29:48 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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