High School Valedictorian Rips Up Speech, Recites Lord's Prayer Instead

[Marsian]

<p>CTScoutmom – I agree.</p>

<p>If I were the principal here, I would make it clear next year that deviation from the approved speech would be cause for discipline – no matter what the content of the deviation.</p>

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Courage would have been delivering that speech in a country where Christianity is banned, knowing there would be serious consequences.

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<p>Christians in the United States who complain about being persecuted for their beliefs ought to hear from some of the remaining Holocaust survivors, or maybe from Christians in Saudi Arabia or Nigeria, about what being persecuted for one’s religious beliefs really means.</p>

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From my perspective, it is not the liberal northern press that is painting this picture of southerners, but the conservative portions of the press that has a stake in maintaining the illusion that the south really is that conservative. To be honest, I suspect the majority of southerners don’t really care, just as the majority of northerners don’t either. The difference is the very vocal minority in the north is the extreme liberals, while the vocal minority in the south is the extreme conservatives.

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<p>You have touched on some points here that I hadn’t considered, but this makes perfect sense to me.</p>