Graduates of a Virginia high school thumbed their nose at the demands of the ACLU that a song sung at graduations since 1940 be banned because it references God.
Students at Thomas Walker High School in Ewing, Virginia locked arms after receiving their diplomas and sang “God Be With You Till We Meet Again.” The song has been sung during graduation since the school’s 1940 founding.
The ACLU had sent a threatening e-mail to school officials saying that students should be banned from singing the song, even at their own initiation, because the song makes a reference to God.
ACLU lawyer Rebecca Glenberg, in addition to wanting to remove any references to God from the graduation ceremony, also objected to a plaque of the Ten Commandments being displayed in a school hallway. The administration responded to the anti-Christianist demand by removing the plaque and eliminating the song from the ceremony.
The students, however, chose to revolt and refused to let the ACLU deny them their Constitutional right to express their faith.
The students also rose and recited the Lord’s Prayer at the invocation because it had also been removed from the ceremony.