Brittany McComb Silenced as She Speaks of Her Faith to High School Class
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Brittany McComb was one of three valedictorians chosen to deliver a speech at the June 2006 commencement ceremony at Foothill High School. She is currently studying at Oxford University. While giving her speech, she strayed from what was written to discuss the impact of the faith she’d found in Jesus Christ in her life and progress as a student. The microphone was turned off and the next speaker occasioned in.
One month later, McComb filed a First Amendment lawsuit against Foothill High (Henderson, Nevada). The school’s attempts to have that original case dismissed were rejected by the U.S. District Court for Nevada in June 2007, and school officials subsequently appealed to the Ninth Circuit to have the case dismissed.
The Rutherford Institute says it will now ask the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that school officials violated McComb’s constitutional rights. (more…)
