Molly Silver is rocking the airwaves right now—she’s a guest on Mike Webb’s KIRO 710 talk show.

Webb asked her how she wrote her Lake Washington High School opinion piece—the one that her advisor cut from the school paper last June—about Antioch church. While the school has claimed Silver cribbed from other papers, Silver says it was an opinion piece based on an article in the New York Times, and she cited every reference to that article. As Silver smartly pointed out to Webb, what she did was strikingly similar to what he was doing at the moment—basing a show off of another publication’s work, a totally legit practice.

(Webb, for his part, was completely stunned as to why the school would cut a piece on a church meeting in the school’s gym and attracting national attention: “It just seems so logical to me that you would include that in your school paper,” Webb says.)

Silver also had a chance to refute the school’s line that they offered her a chance to meet with Antioch’s Ken Hutcherson (seeing as how the principal has a direct line to the guy, as he attends the church). Silver says the principal or advisor didn’t make her any such offer, and she even called Lake Washington School District spokesperson Kathryn Reith last week—Reith’s the one who told me that’s what the school did—to set her straight. “I would have loved that. I would have been so grateful to have the opportunity to talk to him, but I was not offered that opportunity,” Silver says.

I can’t wait to see Molly Silver’s byline in a great paper someday.

More highlights from tonight's show:

"We should not have a church showing up in our public venues," Mike Webb said. "I really am concerned that this school is allowing the church to practice there. It just seems to me that school is school, and it should derive its funding from the taxpayers and not from a church."

Molly, defending her idea to write the opinion piece on Antioch in the first place: "It seemed like it was the most relevant to the students at our school. If anyone should know what was going on, its the students at our school."

More Mike Webb: "This just smacks of interference because of cronyism with a pastor who pays money to the school. This sounds like a really bad problem of separation of church and state." and "They're tax free! they don't have to pay taxes! So why do they have to go into an environment that we do pay taxes for, and have their church there? Why can't they put a church together or rent somewhere like a hospital?"

"We can't just sit back and let a church take advantage of our school," says Silver. "Personally, I don't think it should be legal."