"Openly atheist graduate Damon Fowler complained to the superintendent about the traditional prayer and threatened to contact the American Civil Liberties Union if it wasn't removed from the ceremony...Freedom From Religion Foundation...offered Damon a $1,000 "student activist" award for his courage to speak out."
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2011/May/S...%29
Graduating senior Laci Rae Mattice stood for her convictions, unswayed by threats and censorship, she delivered her prayer as part of her graduation ceremony May 20...
much to the support by most of those in attendance.
It gets pretty bad that one person can disrupt the traditions and freedoms others have enjoyed... I guess when the "protester" is being paid a $1,000 to have convictions contrary to the majority... you get what you pay for. I want to know... where is the "tolerance" we are supposed to have for opposing views?
I wonder just how many other "protests" against religious freedoms are paid for? I hear it quite often that "Christian 'fanatics' get what they have coming, and don't deserve freedom to push their religion"... and then on the other hand they yell up and down when they don't have freedom of speech! Either we all have freedom to speak or we don't,
I guess this is what we can expect from an atheistic point of view...
"all men under man" ...some more "equal" than others !:]