Valedictorian Rips Up Approved Speech on Stage, Recites The Lords Prayer at Graduation (Video)
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PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. – A high school valedictorian from South Carolina ripped up his approved speech on stage this past weekend, and minutes later, delivered the Lord’s Prayer in defiance of the school district’s decision to no longer include prayer at graduation ceremonies.
Roy Costner IV drew loud applause and cheers when he surprised attendees of the Liberty High School graduation at Clemson’s Littlejohn Colliseum on Saturday.
“From the ACLU sending FOIA requests to every district in the state this year after the Chesterfield County case, then the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent us a complaint about religion at board meetings and some other issues as well,” Pickens County School District spokesman John Eby said, the district has been under fire.
Therefore, officials decided to end invocations at all school functions and replace prayer at high school graduations with a moment of silence.
However, Costner wasn’t going to let activist groups kick God out of his graduation. After taking the podium, Costner took his approved speech and ripped it in half for all to see.
“They write their speeches,” Eby told local television station WYFF.
“They send them to someone on staff to have them approved.” After speaking from a separate script for a few minutes, Costner then began to thank his parents for his Christian upbringing.
“Those that we look up to, they have helped carve and mold us into the young adults that we are today,” he said. “I’m so glad that both of my parents led me to the Lord at a young age.”
“And I think most of you will understand when I say…” he continued, surprising the crowd with what came next.
“Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name,” Costner declared. “Thy Kingdom come…”
As attendees realized that Costner was reciting the Lord’s Prayer, applause began to break out in the colliseum. Within seconds, the applause was accompanied by loud cheers.
“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” he continued. “For Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.”
The crowd again broke into cheers and applause as Costner concluded, and one faculty member sat smiling behind him.
“I think it took a lot of courage to do that,” attendee Logan Gibson told reporters. “People were supportive that he stood up for what he believed in.”
Eby said that the district will not be taking any action against Costner.
“The bottom line is, we’re not going to punish students for expressing their religious faiths,” he stated. “He’s a graduate now. There’s nothing we can do about it, even if we wanted to.”
An online video of Costner’s prayer has received over 13,000 hits and more than 300 likes since yesterday.
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“He’s a graduate now. There’s nothing we can do about it, even if we wanted to.” Therein lies the problem; THEY WANT TO.
Praise the Lord, as many voices are raised against the wicked who have nearly seized our country out from under us, we just might not live through the 1984-esque hell they envision for us. Maybe, with the help of the living God (that they do not believe in) we will see their plans thwarted!
God Bless this young man!
Hamilton
And Praise the Lord
He is a valedictorian so he is obviously not spending his time watching or listening to the filth coming out of Hollywood.
Too bad more people wouldn’t just say no to the violence, perversion, and sinister idolatry of Hollywood. Then God wouldn’t have to destroy the USA, like He is now doing.
he is valedictorian so obviously the rest of the pupils were of extreme subnormal intelligence..
a total waste of an “education” if you come out at the end believing in nonsensical fairy tales and praying to fictional gods..
you could achieve the same results and save a lot of resources if you just give all americans some sort of chemical lobotomy at birth..
actually… im not so sure sort sort of program like that isnt already implemented.. that would explain a lot..
no such thing as god idiot… amerikans are destroying amerika.. idiots like you..
It’s amazing that the student has the balls to do something but the parents do absolutely nothing and let the communists to continue to run their school….
you said it all right there, no need for anyone else to comment.
So, you all think it rebellious to rip up an approved speech to repeat some mind numbing mind control drivel?
Make no mistake, is the only reason it is actually getting any attention at all, is because the government wants to bat you into it’s other control system… the church. Another way to trap you is to get you all hot and bothered and patriotic.
Dump them all… the long and the short and the tall. Think for yourselves… please. That’s what Jesus woud want you to do. The kingdom is here, it isn’t going to come. On earth as it is in heaven… earth is heaven… this is the only place we will ever see people… this is it. Jesus said that too… he also said… though you will not see it.
I suggest you go read the Bible. You are quite mistaken in everything you said. Yeshua ( Jesus ) didn’t say any of the things you said.
Okay… what did he say then? You know what, if Jesus were here, he’d tell you himself not to worship him… he’d tell you you worship no one. And if you have faith, to have it in yourself over God…. your turn.
The dufus Patrick Henry, he loves his bibles. The children of Hell have the greatest cover for loving a Pharisee’s doctrine, the bible.
Roman Emperor Constantine presided at the Council of Nicea were the bible came into being, that is the writings placed under one cover and claimed to be all the writings of Jews of the Lord. If not for that bible, you freaking lovers of Pharisee Paul’s doctrine would have cover to hide under and his writings and those of his fellow Pharisees in all bibles are blatantly not of God!
As to the New Testamentn section, 21 writings of Pharisees, Jews of Satan, in all four bibles and only 6 writings of Jews of the Lord. Four bibles are Catholic, Orthodox, Ethiopian and Protestant, and they vary in number of writings because the cover title is of men and men disagree on what is and what is not a writing of God. Christ said the gates of Hell will not prevail against his gospel and to that extent his two apostles, John and Matthew, made it in all bibles.
Wanda, a freaking lover and maker of lies, a dumb*** moron.
Rev. 11:16 And the 24 elders which sat before God fell down and worshiped him
Rev. 14:6-7 WORSHIP HIM that made earth, seas and heaven
John 4:23-24 WORSHIP THE FATHER in spirit and in truth
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YOU PHARISEE PAUL CONVERTS WOULD HAVE NO COVER TO HIDE YOUR EVIL LOVE FOR HIS DOCTRINE OF UN-CIRCUMCISION if not for bibles, because if the wriitings were not placed under that one cover, you children of Hell would have no excuse for claiming Pharisee Paul is of God. His writings are blantant lies and so ridiculous, only being under cover of Bible the fools accept the writings, and those of his fellow Pharisees, such as Luke and Barnabas.
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/spirit/2013/06/truth-about-the-holy-spirit-2478690.html
Galatians 2:7 Pharisee Paul terms his gospel UN-Circumcision
Romans 15:8 Pharisee Paul terms the gospel of Christ, Circumcision
OPPOSING DOCTRINES and Pharisee Paul is the anti-Christ who penned a gospel opposite of, counter to, that which Christ preached (1 John 1:18).
Churches are control. Churches were founded by Pharisees who conquered Gentles with a false christ, an unholy altar, etc. and they did it for money (Romans 15:27). Churches are part of Freemason’s pyramid of slavery.
Your kingdom come – Rev. 11:15 the kingdoms of this world have now become the kingdoms of our Lord.
God’s judgment (starting at Rev. 6:12), that ends in victory (Rev. 11:15).
Why people love to lie, make up lies?
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Notice when you get through their indoctrination process they hand you a sheepskin and put a square hat on your head. That is symbolically saying you are now a shorn sheep and they think of you as lower than floors of the temple. You no longer matter, they own you and you will do as you were trained to do, knowledge be damned… and by and large, it holds true.
Dare to be different, it will place you back on the chess-board at least.
So much for the separation of Church and State.
Religious nutjobs want their claws in everything these days.
Where in the constitution are the the words “Separation of church and state” You are calling the wrong people nut-jobs. If it weren’t for the the people you would have called “Religious Nut-Jobs we would not have the America we have today. And you not have the freedom of speech that you have and want to take it away form people you disagree with.
Its apparent you know nothing of the Constitution. Go study it. You are repeating mindless drivel from the communist manifesto.
Not happy enough or stong enough to stand on your own faith unless your pushing your view of religion on the rest of us.
The young man wasn’t pushing his religion on people. He was refusing to accept your communist dictatorial oppression. Go read the Constitution. And if you didn’t notice, he was cheered on by all of the people. Go to China if you like communist ways so much, or maybe Cambodia. If it wasn’t for Christians you wouldn’t have a Constitution, nor a Constitutional Republic.
If it wasn’t for Christians you wouldn’t have a Constitution, nor a Constitutional Republic.
or priests raping little kids..
May GOD bless you for witnessing for HIM! Thank you!
Must have ticked off the loon libs! LOL
What the hell is a loon lib? I have no idea what you are saying… do you even know?
This young man is teaching the adults!
Perhaps it is time the adults learned.
We are a nation of many faiths. The expression of those faiths is one of the most important freedoms we have.
As the crud of this Earth have taken over the courts and the schools, it is refreshing to see they have not succeeded. There are still people out there that believe in God and people that practice that belief.
Now if the living God will just come forward and make his will known, maybe, just maybe we can root these people out of our courts and our Congress. This denial business has got to be stopped now. We need the protection of our God. He wants our worship.
Not everyone wants Gay marriage. Not everyone wants prayer rooted out of our schools. Not everyone wants a country going to Hell because of people in charge that cannot see denying God will lead to disaster.
There are many faiths but every one is full of inconsistencies and obfuscations and outright lies paired with morsels of truth and moral nescesities to make it all go down easily. There isnt one apart from Budhism that dosnt contain some form of control mechanism to be weilded by the priesthood. The one known as Esu Immanuel Jeshua Ben Joseph said it best when he said that,
” I give you a new commandment and that is to ‘love your neighbor as yourself’, let that be the whole of the law”. All the rest would fall into place if that one rule could be followed by everyone.
If you wish to avoid anything that has inconsistencies, then you’re better off not believing in anything.
Nothing is perfect in this world.
Brave and noble you man.
Funny whenever I read athiests ridiculous believers as mindless, yet they themselves just mindlessly repeat the same ignorant tired cliches spewed out by the likes of Hitchens and Dawkins.
BRAVO!!!!
“Valedictorian Rips Up Approved Speech on Stage, Recites The Lords Prayer at Graduation ”
Thus proving that education is wasted on some. I’m mean come on, someone who still believes there’s a giant invisible fairy story character that is at the same time all compassionate and jealous,.. of what is anyones guess, it lives for ever, can create what it likes and destroy what it likes when ever it likes, and is all knowing. But it must have some sort of learning difficulty, it’s as dumb as the worst moron because it’s only answer to every problem is the death penalty, infinite torture for piffling misnomers and premeditated mass murder.
Death to communism.
It is wonderful to see an intelligent and wise young man take a stand on behalf of the vast majority of Americans! Too often the vast majority are silent and permit the small percentage of Americans who are unGodly dominate everything.
“Too often the vast majority are silent and permit the small percentage of Americans who are unGodly dominate everything.”
What is it you don’t understand about ‘separation of church and state’? These are state schools, if you want a dark age education, start your own dark age education school for those who want to remain religious morons. Stop trying to inflict it on everyone else.
you never see atheists going door to door trying to pressure people into their way of thinking…
if that kept their beliefs to themselves… fine… but christians wont be happy until the whole world is infected with their pox….
sick feks
Bully for you Roy Costner IV!! Bully for you!!
This young man’s real education came shining through. School administrators are among the most sinister change agents there are. They smile and nod for the parents, intimidate students and persecute old school teachers while laughing at them with their comrades on the golf course.
Wanna change education? Start with administration. The kids and teachers are fine.
For those hanging their heads in apparent shame I am sorry for you.
“However, Costner wasn’t going to let activist groups kick God out of his graduation.”
Darn STRAIGHT Costner wasn’t going stop God from being at his graduation and THANK GOD for people like him!
God BLESS you and your courage to stand for what is right and not for what is “approved”.
no such thing as god idiot
“God BLESS you and your courage to stand for what is right and not for what is “approved”. ”
You mean you actually believe that an invented being whose only answer to every problem both great and small, is the death penalty, infinite torture for piffling misnomers and premeditated mass murder, is “right”.
Why don’t you listen to the total BS you are spewing.
You are witnesses today of the email that I just sent to the ACLU [email protected]
Subject: Treason
In a government of the people in which there are Christians, there is no separation of church and state.
We have the principle from Jesus to pay to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.
But because we have a government of the people, even Caesar in this county is partly of Christ.
You restrict freedom of speech as evidenced by demanding that no prayers be offered in public schools. This is in direct violation of the first amendment. We should be able to preach Christ freely in all venues at any time. Otherwise, you are disestablishing the church. And Jesus said to preach to all nations, including this one.
And so I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Your organization needs to come to Christ.
If in the last day, you still rebel, and the Lord asks me if you failed to cast this spirit of rebellion out of your midst, then I will have to speak as a witness against you.
Turn from your wicked ways.
And stop overturning the US Constitution and otherwise committing treason against your alleged country.
I do not consider you Americans based on the evidence.
Even though you have sinned grievously, do not turn from the Lord.
Michael Carrigan
yeah… that’ll work… i bet theyre wettin themselves right now…
you know that person who told you you were not insignificant? – they were lying…