A school district under pressure to keep prayer out of meetings and gatherings got an unexpected delivery from one high school valedictorian
Saturday, at Clemson's Littlejohn Coliseum, Liberty High Valedictorian Roy Costner IV took his speech to the podium, and in front of the crowd, tore it up.
John Eby, Pickens County School District spokesman, said, "They write their speeches. They send them to someone on staff to have them approved."
But Costner clearly had something else in mind.
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Bravo!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe all is not lost with today's youth.
Hear! Hear!
ReplyDeleteBut, it was sacrilegious for the audience to cheer and/or applaud during recitation of the prayer.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a boy, that sort of thing would not be tolerated.
On the other hand, when I was a boy, our school classes began each day reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and the Lord's Prayer, and we, teachers and students, openly discussed the Holy Bible, God, Jesus Christ, and our local church activities in our classes.
Ah, the benefits of growing up in a White, Southern, SEGREGATED community!
we, teachers and students, openly discussed the Holy Bible, God, Jesus Christ, and our local church activities in our classes.
DeleteI don't believe this would have been different in Southern, black schools, in fact probably more pronounced.
In many churches today the problem is that they use the pulpit as a political platform. Overall I would say that the southern black community has always been viewed as highly religious, yet most are not being taught the word of God. How else could they have overwhelmingly voted for a "black" man as President when he firmly stands for abortion, same-sex marriage, and gay rights when the Bible explicity teaches against these very things. Also a man who so openly approves of Islam which is the very religion of the Anti-Christ.
DeleteAnyone can profess Christianity and go to church every Sunday but that will not guarantee them a place in Heaven. IMO, anyone who supports this President is against God.
D.Stroud
ENC
That's a shame about our blacks who we get along so well with at the reunion, but evidently, color trumps all even with them.
Delete1st Amendment Rights, he gets it.
ReplyDeleteWhether the school does or not.
DeleteI know his parents are proud of him!! I know I would be!
ReplyDeleteGod Bless him!
D.Stroud
ENC
Yes, indeedy.
DeleteThat fine young man is going to succeed at whatever he does - I bet his parents are very, very proud of him!
ReplyDeleteGrinning ear to ear.
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