The Island of Logic

On May 30, 2009 students at Santa Rosa High School in Milton, Florida made a statement to the ACLU and in fact to the world, saying enough is enough. Members of the graduating class of 2009 expressed their objections to ACLU restrictions on statements of religious faith at their school by rising up en masse at their ceremony and reciting the Lord’s Prayer. The incident has been virtually ignored by media outlets throughout the region, according to officials with Liberty Counsel, a legal team representing Principal Frank Lay and teacher Michelle Winkler in their battle with the ACLU, which had complained that faculty and teachers were talking about their beliefs.
Nearly 400 graduating seniors at Pace, a Santa Rosa County school, stood up at their graduation, according to Mathew Staver, president of Liberty Counsel. Parents, family and friends joined in the recitation, and applauded the students when they were finished, Staver said that “Many of the students also painted crosses on their graduation caps to make a statement of faith,” the organization reported.” Neither students nor teachers shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate,” said Staver, “The students at Pace High School refused to remain silent and were not about to be bullied by the ACLU. “Schools are not religion-free zones, and any attempt to make them so is unconstitutional,” he said.
In a time when we see Republicans folding like cheap umbrellas this sort of thing is not only refreshing it is very encouraging. Just maybe the future isn’t as hopeless as we sometimes make it out to be, maybe some of our younger generation has been paying attention. What this country needs is politicians, parents, adults, people like you and me to have the courage to stand up along side these students and say “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” we refused to be bullied by groups like the ACLU (which could easily be called anti-Christian liberties union) and if you want to sue us go ahead, but if you’re going to sue one of us, you’re going to have to sue us all, because united we stand.
Santa Rosa Class of 2009, you have done something the rest of us wish we had the courage to do. You have proved that there might be hope for our future after all, I salute you, and keep standing true to your convictions other will eventually follow. GOD BLESS.

Tags: ACLU, Frank Lay, Michelle Winkler, Pace High School, Santa Rosa High School

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