Re: Leftist anti-free speech bigots lose another one!

Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 16:17:19 GMT
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"pikalilli" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> "Rene" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message
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> > (CNSNews.com) - A Wisconsin public high school student will be allowed
to
> > sing a song referring to "God" at her graduation ceremony after all.
> >
> > The student, 18-year-old Rachel Honer, was forced to file a lawsuit two
> > weeks ago objecting to the school's demand that she substitute the words
> > "He," "Him" or "His" instead of "God" in the Christian-themed song.
> >
> > "I think it's wonderful. I am so excited that I am able to do this song.
All
> > I wanted to do was sing this song," Honer told CNSNews.com.
> >
> > School officials at Winneconne High School in Winnebago County, Wis.,
> > originally told Honer that she would need to substitute the words "He,"
> > "Him" or "His" for the three lyric references to the word "God" if she
sang
> > her chosen song at her graduation ceremony on June 8.
> >
> > "I was really shocked. I never thought this would ever happen to me,
> > especially in America," Honer said.
> >
> > With the aid of the Virginia-based civil liberties organization, the
> > Rutherford Institute, Honer filed suit in U.S. District Court in
Milwaukee,
> > arguing that the censorship of her graduation performance violated the
First
> > and Fourteenth Amendment rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
> >
> > After the legal filing and intense media attention, school officials
> > reconsidered their stance and announced late last week that Honer could
sing
> > the complete song lyrics and use the word "God" after all
> >
> >
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200306\CUL20030603b.html
>
> And now, for the rest of the story . . .
>
> Honer lost her scheme to give her "testimony" as a speech and instead
> has to give it as a "performance" that the adience isn't obliged to
> sit and listen to in order to see their kids graduate.
>
> She also cannot give the introduction she had planned on giving
> suggesting everyone commit to her Deity.
OK, so what you're telling us is that even though the Leftist anti-free
speech bigots LOST the battle in trying to dictate that a United States
citizen with Free Speech rights cannot say the word "God" in public, now
those same Leftist anti-free speech bigots want to dictate to her that she
cannot "give the introduction she had planned on giving".
Yep, that does indeed sound like the Left's idea of "Free Speech" - "you are
free to say what you want, except we won't let you say what you want if we
Leftists don't like hearing it".