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Originally Posted by Hostis of Angelus
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Ok, this is mainly about the freedom of speech factor that so many on this forum seem to advocate for all racial profiles, religions, and beliefs. The fact that the school was trying to stop this girl from speaking out was not the problem, and neither was the fact that she went against their orders and said what she wanted to-- both parties had the right to do what they did. The school board was aloud to edit her material to what they thought appropriate, and she the right to ignore it. The problem here, as I see it, is that she was cut off. Suggesting a change is one thing, but censoring is quite another.
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No, the school was providing somewhere for her to express her view, as far as I know that gives them the right to decide exactly what she can say and to censor anything she says. On top of that, she was warned, given an edited speech, and told that if she deviated from it she would be cut off, you're saying that it's fine to tell people what they can and cannot say, but that it's not fine to punish them for not following that?
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As I see it, she was completely within her rights to do this. They asked her to make a speech, as the valadictorian it was her right to do so, and within the First Amendment we are given the right to speak freely... and to have religious freedom. Let's turn this around for a moment, for those of us that have problems with Muslims... what if an Islamic boy had gotten up on stage and wanted to thank Allah for helping him, and went on to say that the group was going to hell as they were? This is almost exactly what she was going to do by mentioning Christ, because the philosophies are almost identical, but only in a more gentle way.
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He would've been cut off too.
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In my opinion, it was a breach of her First Amendment rights, as well as her rights as a citizen of the United States. What does everyone else think?
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No breech. If I give you a stage to say something on my behalf, and you then proceede to say things that I don't agree with, I have every right to stop you.