Graduation Prayer

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He was just one member of a local school board in Nebraska.  But through an act of boldness at a high school graduation, he proved that one person, with the courage to stand by his convictions, could make a difference for countless students. 

Graduating seniors at Norfolk High School voted to include prayers in their commencement ceremony.  But after one student complained about the outcome of the vote, everything changed. The student contacted the ACLU and they threatened immediate legal action if the prayers were allowed. 
 
When graduation day came, the school board member could have kept quiet about his beliefs.  But instead he stood up…and took a stand for religious freedom.  He recited the Lord’s Prayer.

The ACLU filed suit on behalf of the offended student and his parent. But with the help of an ADF allied attorney, the court ruled in 2003 that the school board member’s recitation of the Lord’s Prayer was private speech and was therefore constitutionally protected.

Thanks to the act of just one person, another victory for religious freedom was secured…and another effort to silence the Gospel was defeated.