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In the heart of the deep South, Bible Belt and all, a "new decision" has been made by the Pickens County School District.
According to Yahoo! News,
this South Carolina district decided to "no longer include prayer at graduation ceremonies."
Liberty High School
valedictorian Roy Costner IV was not about to take this sitting down.
As Costner "approached the podium, he ripped up his preapproved speech" and began reciting the Lord's Prayer instead.
Although many students in the crowd cheered, Internet viewers of the now-viral video of this incident have had mixed reactions. The following Internet comments raise some
interesting points:
Why, in this country,
does anyone need to get a speech preapproved?
When I was in high
school, rebellious boys cussed, smoke and
drank. Now they defiantly recite the Lord's Prayer…
As an agnostic I
served this country believing we had freedom of
religion not persecution of religion…
I'm an atheist and I
support what he did 100%.
Yes, but… what if the
prayer were from the Koran? Or from the
Bhagavad Gita? Would these responses have been as favorable then?
Just wondering…
Resources
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/trending-now/valedictorian-rips-preapproved-speech-recites-prayer-instead-172941933.html
Copyright June 11, 2013 by Linda Van Slyke All Rights Reserved
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