Added 6/9/12
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/school-district-confirms-schindlers-list-producer-was-disinvited-from-speaking-to-graduates-for-being-conservative/
The School District confirmed that Mr. Molen's invitation was rescinded because they felt that his views were too conservative.
Dysfunctional? - then you are OK to speak in the School District of Ronan, Montana.
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http://www.dailyinterlake.com/opinion/letters/article_1c1edc80-a747-11e1-85a7-0019bb2963f4.html
In Montana of all places.
Gerald Molen, who counts among his many achievements being a co-producer of the Movie Schindler's List, was barred from speaking at a High School graduation in the not quite ultra-liberal state of Montana.
"The reason: “some” callers had informed the principal that they were concerned about the scheduled speaker being too right-wing or having an opinion that might be counter to theirs or some other lame excuse."
Failing to do his duty, the Principle did not tell the parents that the Mr. Molen was going to speak as planned. Not only had the man prepared his speech over a period of three weeks (No fee was involved), but the dis-invitation was made an hour before the ceremony - long after the speaker had arrived in town.
The Principle never even attempted to review the speech or question Mr. Molen about it's content. He gets a phone call from parents who are concerned that their kids just might hear something contrary to the lies that they have heard from Mom and Dad and that is enough to drop the speaker.
Of course, it is OK to have Dan Savage or another anti-Christian, anti-Jew, or anti-conservative/American speaker at a school event and to allow them to use vulgar and venomous language while speaking to a captive audience.
Concerning the 'reason' above, I have heard the "some people" and similar lines more times than I can count, and they all have meant two or three people. Even if there had been a substantial amount of speakers, it should not have mattered. Mr. Molen is a respectable man who had proven himself to be a man of honor. He went out of his way to provide some inspiration for the graduates, and he gets slapped in the face for it.
He must be, rather than angry or indignant, terribly hurt.
"When I was informed of the decision, I asked to speak to the principal and he agreed to meet with me. He apologized for the inconvenience of being canceled and said the decision to cancel was his alone. He was concerned about my presentation. No, he didn’t ask me of the content. No, he didn’t ask to read the speech for any clarification as to content. No, he would not tell me who the complaining party or parties were, nor would he give me any further explanation. Just that there would be no presentation by me that day."
I know that I rail about the decline of our culture, but here is another example; the refusal not only to do one's job, but to offer pretend apologies for one's actions. When one makes, or allows oneself to be bullied into, a piss-poor decision that hurts another, the recipient does not get an apology. He gets offered half-baked "apologies" for being inconvenienced or is told "I'm sorry that you feel that way" or "I'm sorry that you were offended".
From TheBlaze:
"Molen has spoken at dozens of schools and never accepts a fee. When one is offered, he asks that it be donated to the Shoah Foundation, the nonprofit organization founded by Spielberg and dedicated to the remembrance of the Holocaust.
When speaking to students, Molen’s presentations usually invoke Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust and is the subject of the Oscar-winning 1993 film that Molen co-produced with Spielberg and Branko Lustig.
For the Ronan students, Molen planned to use Schindler as an example of what courageous individuals could accomplish [...]
Hollywood reporter contacted Stack and the school itself for comment but calls were not returned.
Molen went on to write in his letter that his intent of the speech was to ultimately inspire the graduating seniors as they move forward in life, as most commencement speakers would set out to do. Instead, he writes, the students were ”indoctrinated with a sense of fear and mistrust that a fellow Montanan just might stand before them and say something some official school administrator deemed ‘possibly harmful.’ "
We need to start taking stands on situations such as these. I have no doubt that 99% of the parents and students were exited to hear this man speak. What haphazard speech was substituted at the last minute in place of that of Mr. Molen?
The students were not protected that day - they were treated badly by their own school administrators.
We cannot keep allowing a few troublemakers screw things up for everyone else. This applies also to the seemingly weekly reports of yet another Atheist who sues for a cross or other religious-type symbol to be removed from a public place. At some point, we need to stand out ground and factually state that, for example, our nation was founded on Judeo-Christian and politically Conservative principles. Our founders, including the rank-and-file protesters in Massachusetts in the 1770's, may have seemed radically liberal at the time, but that was because political Liberty was itself a radical concept at that time. Although our founders clearly did not establish an official Church, no one had any doubt of the part that Christian belief and Jewish thought (Much of it taken directly from that source and not filtered through Christianity) both played in their vision for the nation.
It is time to start taking our lumps for refusing to accept court decisions that cater to the selfish designs of such people. If we allow this to go on, it will do so. They are not going to stop until we stand our ground. If we follow this trend to its logical conclusion, we will have to remove even crosses and Stars of David from military cemeteries and rid the military of the Corps of Chaplains.
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