{"id":1695,"date":"2006-06-28T08:38:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2006-06-28T08:38:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T12:38:14","slug":"mention-god-dont-you-dare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/mention-god-dont-you-dare\/","title":{"rendered":"Mention God? Don&#8217;t you dare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/opinion\/columns\/benshapiro\/2006\/06\/21\/202056.html\">Townhall.com<\/a> Ben Shapiro June 21, 2006<\/p>\n<p>Brittany McComb, valedictorian of Foothill High School in Clark County, Nevada, stood up at her graduation and began to speak. A few paragraphs into her speech, school administrators cut off McComb&#8217;s microphone. She didn&#8217;t tell a dirty joke. She didn&#8217;t curse. She didn&#8217;t insult her classmates or her teachers. Brittany McComb committed the egregious sin of attempting to thank God and Jesus. &#8220;I went through four years of school at Foothill and they taught me logic and they taught me freedom of speech,&#8221; McComb stated. &#8220;God&#8217;s the biggest part of my life. Just like other valedictorians thank their parents, I wanted to thank my lord and savior.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union, which seems more intent on curtailing important liberties than protecting them, praised the school&#8217;s decision. Nevada ACLU general counsel Allan Lichtenstein explained, &#8220;There should be no controversy here \u2026 It&#8217;s important for people to understand that a student was given a school-sponsored forum by a school, and therefore, in essence, it was a school-sponsored speech.&#8221; The school district stood by the school&#8217;s decision, suggesting that McComb&#8217;s speech entered into the realm of &#8220;preaching.&#8221; &#8220;We review the speeches and tell them they may not proselytize,&#8221; said district legal counsel Bill Hoffman. &#8220;We encourage people to talk about religion and the impact on their lives. But when that discussion crosses over to become proselytizing, then we tell students they can&#8217;t do that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/opinion\/columns\/benshapiro\/2006\/06\/21\/202056.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com Ben Shapiro June 21, 2006 Brittany McComb, valedictorian of Foothill High School in Clark County, Nevada, stood up at her graduation and began to speak. A few paragraphs into her speech, school administrators cut off McComb&#8217;s microphone. She didn&#8217;t tell a dirty joke. She didn&#8217;t curse. She didn&#8217;t insult her classmates or her teachers. &#8230; <a title=\"Mention God? Don&#8217;t you dare\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/mention-god-dont-you-dare\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mention God? Don&#8217;t you dare\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-popular-culture","category-religion-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}