Reply #137: Accused in a court of law...

[hughee99]

I'm sure this school, like any other school in America, is accused informally of just about everything by someone. My point was that no one even seems to be alleging (in court) that the school has done something wrong here other than the girl who read the speech. No one seems to have filed suit against the school because religion was forced upon them. No one seems to have been arrested at the school because someone had to listen to the girls speech (before the Mike was cut).

The girl has a right to say what she wants, and she did. The school has an obligation not to provide her a forum to make such a speech, and they, to the best of their ability, did what they were supposed to. No laws were broken here. It was suggested (at least it sounded to me like it was) that it was illegal for the girl to change her speech, and though she did, no laws were broken.

I am curious about one thing. If the girl had ended her pre-screened speech with "God Bless you all" there wouldn't have been a problem. Obviously, describing a crucifixion isn't really appropriate for a graduation even if it wasn't Jesus you were talking about, but where's the middle ground? At what point does the discussion of God go from harmless (or at least tolerable) to legally unacceptable?