California High School: We Have a Right to BAN God

by Warner Todd Huston | July 13, 2014 1:13 pm

A High School in California has insisted that it has a right to ban the mention of God in a student’s graduation speech paradoxically claiming the Constitution gives them that power.

In July 18-year-old Brooks Hamby refused to follow the schools ban order[1] and thanked Jesus in his speech anyway sending the school into fits of apoplexy.

A California school district says it will not apologize to a teenager who defied its orders and mentioned God in his graduation speech.

Attorneys representing the Brawley Union High School District have written a 10-page letter defending the school’s right not only to censor graduation speeches, but also to ban any speech that references God or Jesus.

“It is well established in the Ninth Circuit and California that a public school salutatorian has no constitutional right to lead a prayer or include sectarian or proselytizing content in his/her graduation speech,” reads a letter from the San Diego law firm of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud and Romo.

The Liberty Institute has taken young Mr. Hamby’s case demanding that the school apologize for attempting to force him to eliminate mentions of God.

It appears that people really should leave California and move to the United States.

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Endnotes:
  1. refused to follow the schools ban order: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/11/school-have-right-to-ban-god/?intcmp=latestnews
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