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What makes people think anyone wants to hear about their religion?
It is an easy out to get yays from a known audience.
What makes people think anyone wants to hear about their religion?
then he would have broke the rules :shrug:
the school has every right to censor, limit and ban some speech
It is an easy out to get yays from a known audience.
What makes people think anyone wants to hear about their sexual preferance, especially if they weren't asked about it in the first place?
Didn't you know? Homosexuality now not only trumps health, morality, religion and biology, but good taste and self respect as well.
He was given access to the mic through hi body of work, and was free to address his classmates as he chose...
Bullies and hate filled bigots now trumps thinking about how ones family and employer would view your online ranting about the people you think are less than you.
Brave would have been for somebody in the audience to tell him that this was not the proper venue for him to engage in verbal exhibitionism about his sexual deviancy to the public humiliation of his parents.
1.)And the kid has every right to defy censorship, limits and bans.
2.) Rules? Aw, c'mon. You don't believe that crap, do you>
1.)no he doesn't have a right too, he CAN, and that would be his choice but he doesn't have a right too
2.) believe in rules is meaningless to whether they exist with or with out consequence or not.
per the info i know i think the kid was brave, super brave and his parents should be proud
In that town, it could very easily be. It sounds like you don't have any familiarity with small white trash towns.
Oddly, in post #130 you say, "Evidently bigotry has gone out of style. I'm so sorry for your loss."
It apparently has not.
I fail to see the "bravery" of admitting something that most people already knew :shrug:
don't you know anything??? it's not bigotry if the target is straight, white, conservative
There is a time and a place for everything, and valedictories--farewells--are a particular type of ceremonial rhetoric and follow certain conventions. There's even a Wiki-How entry: How to Write a Valedictorian Speech: 8 Steps - wikiHow
See #3, which discusses aiming at inclusiveness/representation of the class itself.
I fail to see the "bravery" of admitting something that most people already knew :shrug:
Μολὼν λαβέ;1061925953 said:Why is being gay so popular these days?
Here was a chance - a great honor at that - to address your fellow classmates and talk about their collective dreams and accomplishments, with him as the privileged and deserving spokesperson for the class.
Instead, he made it all about him.
Typical. Why are gays so damn needy of attention?
Try getting beaten up or raped. The desire to stand up to sociopathic bullies takes bravery
hyperbole much? no evidence that this kid was ever beaten or raped.
But #2 says that you should be brutally honest about yourself and properly represent who you are. The speech written by the Texas kid did both #2 and #3.