A Person’s a Person No Matter How Small
By Ken DeGraaf | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice
This story is not merely about a brave young girl gone viral for a poignant poem.
It is about a canary in a coal mine gasping for air as the poisons of a culture increasingly unable to tolerate truth swirl ever thicker in the atmosphere around it.
When a 7th grader is barred from presenting a poem titled “A life is a life, no matter how small” to her Honors English classmates because it defended unborn life, Colorado should take stock of its condition. In a Jeffco district claiming that “all students…feel that their voices and perspectives are valued,” the promotion of life itself was deemed too offensive.
A healthy civilization does not fear competing moral arguments. It does not silence peaceful dissent or require instit...







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