Letter: Free speech applies to Christians, too

Saturday, July 1, 2006 | 8:09 a.m.

Mel Lipman has either been blinded by his humanism or has forgotten what the First Amendment teaches and guarantees when he writes in his June 27 letter that Brittany McComb's "free speech and religious rights were certainly not violated" during her Foothill High School graduation speech.

Mr. Lipman turns the First Amendment against itself, which is not what the Founding Fathers intended to do. The First Amendment protects citizens' speech, while Lipman says it's OK to censor citizens' speech (only the religious speech).

And where does the Constitution say there is no free speech concerning the God or the Bible in government-sanctioned areas or institutions? Where? It's not there. Neither is a wall of separation between church and state. It's not there, either. If one were to do a little research, he would easily come to the conclusion that these are 20th-century myths.

If McComb's testimony of Christ in her speech is the government establishing a religion, then McComb must be a government official. Yet, Brittany McComb is not the government! She is a citizen of America whose free speech was encroached upon by those who seek to silence Christians in the public arenas of life.

My suggestion to solve this dilemma is for Christians to get our kids out of the public school system and into private or home schools. They shall never learn of Jesus in Mel Lipman's new version of American public education.

Timothy R. Carroll, Las Vegas