Applauding moral courage

Yesterday, I noted two sterling examples of physical bravery in the battlefield.  I’d like, today, to pay homage to moral bravery in the face of both verbal and physical attacks.  Despite withering fire from her school and the community, and despite threat physical confrontations, knife threats and property attacks, conservative student Kristen Campbell has stood her ground.  Unlike weasels in Washington, she’s refused to back down from her conservative intellectual beliefs, she’s refused to apologize for holding those beliefs, and she continues to espouse those beliefs.  That shows courage at any level, but in a high school student, it’s exceptional.

(Please God that I don’t discover later today that Campbell, rather than asserting principled opposition to Obama’s agenda, didn’t write school newspaper editorials that veered into the blatantly racist or scatalogical, something that angry teens are wont to do.)