UCLA Prohibits Student from Saying 'Jesus' in Graduation Speech, page 7
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reply posted on 6-6-2009 @ 12:48 PM by justsomeboreddude
reply to post by Annee



Yes I would. I would have no problem in her thanking Lucifer at a public college graduation. She worked her butt of for at least a few years, probably paid a bunch of money in tuition to attend, and if she wants to thank Buddah, Jesus, or the flying monkey people from Mars then she should be able to.

It is amazing how people act like words or opinions can kill you on the spot.


reply posted on 6-6-2009 @ 01:17 PM by chise61
reply to post by moocowman



Yes she was studying science, however it makes no difference what she was studying she still has a right to free speech and the right to thank whomever she wishes. I don't believe that there are any prerequisites for studying the sciences pertaining to a person's spiritual/religious beliefs, or lack thereof. Her spiritual/ religious beliefs in no way make a mockery of her teachers.



reply posted on 6-6-2009 @ 02:13 PM by afterschoolfun
Originally posted by AshleyD
reply to
post by falcon



Anyways, presidents, including Obama, bring up religion in their speeches all the time. And that is the president. So if a student wants to thank Jesus in her speech, she has every right as a citizen. There's really no argument past that point.

[edit on 6/5/2009 by AshleyD]


I think everyone missed this

Really. If ANYONE shouldn't say stuff like this its the fricken president. So why can't someone say something like that at a school graduation?.

Separation of church and state? There's no church and definitely not a state, shes just saying like 5 words.


reply posted on 6-6-2009 @ 03:56 PM by amazing
reply to post by Annee



It is a public school but you should be allowed to thank who you want. Taking this a step further, why not prohibit students from thanking thier families? Or from mentioning other countries? I bet, if posted, we could actually find offensive material worth banning in every speech that was or is going to be read.


reply posted on 6-6-2009 @ 05:05 PM by falcon
Its surprising that of the few of the replys ive seen here in the first 2 pages that quite a number of people are arguing seperation of church and state. This is not matter of the State or the Church why on the one hand the UCLA gets funding tax payer or private that doesnt matter if it was state or church currency.

What this case is about is simply one of the biggest violations of freedom of speech ive seen in many years next to that attempt to create a bible permit recently.

You could argue that if a church funded publicy or privately this university they would have some say if not all say in what could be and could not be in there school especially if there the ones paying for it.

This isnt really a issue over money either this is censorship at its core and I dont care how you try to justify it or say that its acceptable on any level its not. First this women gets censored/prohibited next its one of us or someone else that's not here that does not yet know this news story has taken place.

The national news media had better be making this news story its top priority also because guess what CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, ABC exc exc exc your next. You think im wrong on this I could site example after example of how many reporters have gotten either fired or lost there jobs for covering some news story that didnt fit all the news that's fit to print and still ended up making some of the biggest news stories as a result of it.

First its this women then its a small city or town doing the same thing then its a large company then a large city then it goes to a national law that prohibits us all from doing something that's perfactly legal and lawful we have now thrown up a wall against.

Censorship is Censorship a Police State is a Police State. But this is not a spade that's a spade what we are dealing with here in this story is malice and fourthought on the behalf of the UCLA to delberatly stop and prohibit freedom of expression / freedom of speech. This is not just a case that should only be prosecuted by the State against the UCLA for violations of the First and 14th Amendment.

This case may very well be more groundbreaking then the rosa parks case on civil rights viloations. There was no broken law on the behalf of the women in this case and yet the UCLA felt it was within some bestowed authority to attempt to lisense this womens freedom of speach.

I know the 14th amendment and the 1st amendment very well I dont need to quote it here. If the news media as a whole the major networks will not cover this case then you people in those positions need to lose your jobs simply for the fact its going to be you next if you dont support this women as being the new larry fint.

Larry as publishing a unpopular by some publication still has the right to do it, he went to jail and got shot and now spends his life in a wheel chair for all of you to have the right to speak your minds in places like this.

Every Military personal that fought in a overseas war that was a real war not a contracted one like the two ones we have now went to war over everyone in the united states of america's right to more then just freedom of speach.

And to belittle that and or belittle anyone who has been willing to go to jail or more on cases like this belittles your rights you have to even respond to this posting and anothers like it on ats and else where.

The idea and or notion that it is so called "good" that this happened anywhere in this country or anywhere else goes to show the real state of this society and how far we have really fallen as a nation if we turn a blind eye to a issue this large that effects us all.

For those who wish to contradict this message or anyone else who stays its my right to say it was the UCLA's right to censor this women yes you have that right today. You keep up that idealism and you wont have it anymore.

Thats my 2 cents for now on this matter.

Falcon




reply posted on 6-6-2009 @ 06:34 PM by Annee
Originally posted by badw0lf

I read somewhere that the US of A was One Nation under God, with LIBERTY and justice for all.

Can't recall where I read that however, must have been in a church or at home sometime...



History of the Pledge of Allegiance - - written by Francis Bellamy - a socialist. In 1923 and 1924 the National Flag Conference, under the 'leadership of the American Legion and the Daughters of the American Revolution, changed the Pledge's words, 'my Flag,' to 'the Flag of the United States of America.' Bellamy disliked this change, but his protest was ignored. In 1954, Congress after a campaign by the Knights of Columbus, added the words, 'under God,' to the Pledge. The Pledge was now both a patriotic oath and a public prayer.

Bellamy's granddaughter said he also would have resented this second change.

www.oldtimeislands.org...
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E Pluribus Unum: E Pluribus Unum describes an action: Many uniting into one. An accurate translation of the motto is "Out of many, one" – a phrase that elegantly captures the symbolism on the shield.

E Pluribus Unum was replaced on our money by - "In God We Trust".

Congress undermined American unity in 1954 when it added "Under God" to our Pledge of Allegiance and again in 1956 when it replaced our 175 year old national motto, E Pluribus Unum ("Out Of Many, One"), with "In God We Trust", thus demoting to an implied outsider status the agnostics, atheists, deists, polytheists and other citizens who do not ascribe to this theology. Ideological contention is a necessary and desired result of the freedoms that are the real source of our unity and strength. These laws, by claiming that our unity rests on disregarding the reality of such sincere individual disagreement, are self-defeating.

www.petitiononline.com...




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