roy costner, good job, my man. >> wasn't at plagiarism? >> maybe.nk he'sool. >> it's oka he can do that. >> it' liberty university, too. >> dana? >> so getting involved in government, not everybody can run for office but there's a that you can parcipate. eric cantor, the majority whip -- i'm sorry. e majority leader of the house republicans started a new thing today where both republicans and democrats can go to cosor.gov. you can add your name to a bill if you want to support it. this is really good stuff. this is a really good thing to do with your kids. this is a great way -- >> your kids will love this. >> i would have loved it. >> you would. >> i had to read the rocky mountain news and denver post before my dad got home from work every day and be prepared to discuss articles. look where i got. >> you ar the human lisa simpson. >> anyway. i think cosponsor.gov. i think eric cantor should be commended. >> greg, i you want to leave and go to that website. what's your one more thing? >> e word is loop. everybody in meeting now says i'm going to loo

. >> the young man's father, roy costner iii, joins me now live. so roy, what was your feeling? did you know your son was going to do this? >> actually, i did know that he was going to do it. he and i talked about a couple days before and he wanted me to look over his speech, and i did, and as a parent, my first thought was you really need to think about this, i want you to be responsible in how you're doing it. >> explain to me why the school district had said there can't be any prayers in the school. >> originally, the freedom from religion organization contacted the school district and they wanted to remove prayer from the school board meetings. originally, the student would come and would lead prayer there. then because of that, they took a different look at the policy and changed everything. so my son and i were in a school improvement council meeting and the principal said we're not going to have any prayer at all. matter of fact, we'll move the service away from the school and there will be two minutes of silence at the beginning. my son came to me with his speech that ha

i shouldn't be surprised, because your name is roy costner, as is his, and you are related.o kevin costner. >> my grandfather, his grandfather are brothers. >> you're his cousin. >> i'm a cousin. >> which makes your son also a cousin. one of my favorite movies, "tin cup" and kevin costner showed incredible courage to beat don johnson. >> and his name was roy. >> exactly. exactly my punch line. great to see you. do send your son my very best. it's a gutsy thing to do. right behind him. completely ridiculous banning the lord's prayer from school. what the hell is going on. nice to see you. >>> coming up next, will christine quinn be the first female mayor of new york? talking about her historic campaign, struggles with alcohol and bulimia and more importantly, how is she going to stop the weiner? i do a lot of research on angie's list before i do any projects on my own. at angie's list, you'll find reviews written by people just like you. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. >>> the nsa has

thy kingdom come -- [ applause ] >> gretchen: joining us is roy costner iv, is that correct?hat's brave movement how did you decide to do the lord's prayer instead of finishing your speech? >> we had a lot of controversy at our school from different times of organizations -- types of organization contacted them a few months ago saying letter he was intent because they're praying before school board meetings. the district contacted their attorneys and the attorney general contacted them saying you need to get rid of it and have a moment of silence. with this came along kind of sparked up our community. our community is fully supportive of them. >> gretchen: so the chairman said i don't care if you're going to talk about allah or jesus, but you can't do it and you decided what? >> i decided god is such an important part of my life, if we take him out of school, it will hurt the school more than help it. i noticed this mast -- past year, more types of arguments and fights that i think it could be prevented with bringing god back into school. >> gretchen: your school said about i

and they will long remember the valedictorian's speech given by roy costner the fourth.n pickens county, the school district has been getting a barrage of complaints about prayer in the school district. when he took the stage, well, he took his approved speech that was approved by the school and he tore it up, right? and then he began talking about his christian upbringing. here he is. there goes the speech. he begins talking about his christian upbringing, how he was glad his parents led him to the lord at a very young age. and then he said this, listen. >> i think most of you will understand what i'm saying. our father, who art in heaven, hal owed be think name, think kingdom come, think will be done [ applause ] >> yet, we played you 20 seconds of that, but the cheers went on. you can hear them going on. and he kept going trying to get through the prayer. did they come up and haul him off stage? no, they didn't. the school says he will face absolutely no disciplinary action at all. he says he was overwelled at the reaction by his classmate tscla. >> wow, wow. it says

. >>> valedictorian roy costner iv was told the school rules were no prayer at graduation. you can't talk about your religion during your big speech. well, might have heard that didn't sit well with roy because he said god is the biggest part of his life. he had a preapproved speech prepared. but as you're about to see, he ripped it up, and did this instead. >> i got another one here. most of you will understand what i'm saying. our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done -- >> fdefight the rulying the rul. you hear him reciting the lord's prayer. these are school administrators and teachers. but it was no shock to roy's dad, who is a pastor. roy had sought his dad's advice and his father told us what that advise was. >> my son came to me with his speech that had the words prayer in it. and i said, look, if you're doing this for political reasons, don't. but if you're doing it because you feel led to do it, and you feel this is a part of your speech, i want you to do it and i'll stand by you. he said, good. good enough for me. that