Hate Speech: Valedictorian Forced to Apologize for Speech Thanking Jesus

[catdd]

sickening assault on the 1st amendment.

 

[Dr.3D]

I support it to the degree that I would be against indoctrinating children into a religion. But if a freakin basketball team wants to say a prayer before a game, or a valedictorian wants to profess her faith in God, etc. - it is ridiculous to attempt to fall back on a clause that doesn't even exist in the Constitution but comes from a phrase used in a letter written by Jefferson and misinterpreted by a misguided Supreme Court Judge. see: emerson vs. board of education 1946 (I think).

LOL... he said school and state, not church and state.

 

[Deborah K]

LOL... he said school and state, not church and state.

uh oops!

 

[BillyDkid]

WTF kind of a country is this anymore? I'm not even a Christian and it makes me hate these people. You have this wonderful, brilliant little girl and some people can't be happy unless unless they are shitting on her. We are so infected with this PC poison.

 

[Deborah K]

Treaty of Tripoli which was passed unanimously by both the House and the Senate states

And??? All that treaty proclaims is that the US gov't isn't a theocracy. Well no kidding. There is a SOCS truth and a SOCS lie. There are two clauses in the first amendment with regard to religion. Neither have anything to do with separation. That phrase was taken out of context by Justice Hugo Black in the emerson v. board of education case in 1946. The phrase was written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church as an assurance to them that the gov't had NO intention of establishing a religion. Hugo Black took it out of context and set a dangerous precedence for this country.

 

[American Idol]

And??? All that treaty proclaims is that the US gov't isn't a theocracy. Well no kidding. There is a SOCS truth and a SOCS lie. There are two clauses in the first amendment with regard to religion. Neither have anything to do with separation. That phrase was taken out of context by Justice Hugo Black in the emerson v. board of education case in 1946. The phrase was written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Church as an assurance to them that the gov't had NO intention of establishing a religion. Hugo Black took it out of context and set a dangerous precedence for this country.

Dang girl you are ON IT! First Amendment scholar over here...

 

[jkr]

apologize?!?!


ha hahahah ha

\NO WAY BUD/

 

[wizardwatson]

The separation of church and state lie really needs to be exposed.

Yeah, and this case is very clear cut to me. If the student chooses the content the State can't censor anything. It's like saying to a kid, "Draw your perfect world, but not one that has God in it."

 

[Theocrat]

Fair Treatment of the Treaty

Treaty of Tripoli which was passed unanimously by both the House and the Senate states

So was this:

Obviously, the Treaty of Tripoli had nothing to do with denouncing the fact that America was based on the principles of the Christian religion. When read in its proper context, it becomes easy to see that the Treaty of Tripoli was denouncing the idea that American Christianity was an imperialistic religion unlike the Islamic states which were against America during the Barbary Wars.

So we see there is nothing wrong with professing the Christian faith in any public domain of American culture. Our country was based on that freedom, after all.

 

[DamianTV]

Yeah, thats exactly the kind of shit that we do NOT need in our schools.

And to further my point, "under god" needs to be re-removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, as it was never there to begin with. That is, until the christian spam central got ahold of it and somehow were lucky enough to get it changed.

The structure of the entire christian religion is more of an Avon pyramid scheme than anything.

 

[federalistnp]

The separation of church and state was to ensure the church did not become incorporated with the government. In England, the Catholic church was for a long time running the show. The founding fathers didn't want that to happen in this country.

It has nothing to do with what a person has to say in a speech in school. It has nothing to do with a person praying or any of that tripe people are pushing it to be. It's about keeping the government a separate entity from the church. Nothing more.

Thank you! Seperation has NOTHING to do with the student thanking whoever she wishes to thank!

Too often many folks take the simplistic view that falsely believes that anything of a religious nature can't be mentioned in a public, government subsidized place. Freedom of Speech protects someone's rights to express their religious beliefs freely no matter the religion or belief system. Atheism is a belief system as is "secular humanism" and each has their pillar tenets or Darwinism and Culturally Demanded Egalitarianism, respectively.

 

[federalistnp]

Actually, the U.S. Supreme Court has already recognized secular humanism as a religion in the case Torcaso v. Watkins (1961). That is the religion which Obama was promoting in the video above.

And we shouldn't be required to listen to academia espouse egalitarianism doctrine from their divine book of secular humanism. Agreed! All of it is "belief systems" and all should be equally allowed to freely express their views.