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Thursday, June 19, 2014

CENSORING CHRISTIANITY: HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE DEFIES OFFICIALS AFTER 4 REVISIONS OF SPEECH WHICH CONTAINED "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" REFERENCES TO THE BIBLE

BROOKS HAMBY'S SALUTATORIAN SPEECH

REJECTED 4 TIMES;

DEFIES UNGODLY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

WITH

MATTHEW 5:13

"You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor,

how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing

but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men."

High School Student Defies Officials,

Shares Faith in Speech

SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/18510-high-school-student-defies-officials-shares-faith-in-speech;

EXCERPT:

"The salutatorian of a senior class in California threw caution to the wind at the high school's June 12 graduation ceremony, using his short speech to share his faith in God — in defiance of warnings by school officials that he not use “unconstitutional” religious language in his speech.

In fact, noted Fox News columnist Todd Starnes, school officials rejected the first two versions of Hamby's speech with the terse explanation that they “oppose government case law and are a violation of the Constitution. The district is advising you that reference to religious content is inappropriate and that the two drafts provided will not be allowed.”

On the day of the graduation ceremony and with no approved speech, reported Liberty Institute, “Brooks and his parents were called to see the principal and were notified by the school district that if Brooks 'interjects religious content, the sound will be cut off, and a disclaimer to the entire audience must be made explaining the district’s position.' After receiving this information, Brooks rewrote a third version of his speech, which he sent to the superintendent. He received that version back with all religious references crossed out in black.”

Hamby received no response from the principal to a fourth version of his speech, submitted just hours before the ceremony, "

SEE ALSO:
http://christiannews.net/2014/06/16/california-salutatorian-defies-schools-denial-of-christian-speech-at-graduation/