Ronan High School in Montana refused to allow Gerald Molen, a Hollywood producer of movies such as Schindler’s List and Minority Report, to give a speech to the graduating class due to fears that he is “too right wing.”
“Recently I was invited to speak to the Ronan High School seniors. After three weeks of preparation, research and re-write after re-write, I arrived at the appointed hour only to be told my talk had been canceled,” Molen, a former United States Marine and current motivation speaker, wrote in The Daily Interlake, a local paper. “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.”
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Molen said that he intended to give “a totally apolitical speech.” The Hollywood Reporter added that “Molen planned to use Schindler as an example of what courageous individuals could accomplish.”
“Instead they 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,'” Molen wrote in his op-ed. “In America today, are our children taught or indoctrinated? Is there censorship? I’ll let the reader decide. Me? I now have the answer.”
