Campus tirade against pro-lifers

Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 6/3/2008 6:00:00 AMvar addthis_pub = 'onenewsnow';

The free-speech rights of a University of Wisconsin pro-life club were violated recently, and the incident has been posted on the popular video-sharing website YouTube.

Pointers for Life, a University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point pro-life club, recently obtained permission from the school to place 4,000 white crosses on campus grounds. The display was meant to symbolize the 4,000 unborn babies who are aborted every day in the United States.
 
However, the display was vandalized on May 1 by Roderick King, a university sophomore and student senator. While King was knocking over the white crosses, he stated that the pro-life group had no right to challenge abortion because it was made legal in 1973 following the Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court -- and the display, he said, was unfair to students who had obtained abortions. The incident was captured on video and posted to YouTube.
 

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Ian Ivey is with The Leadership Institute, a conservative organization which trains and places conservative leaders into public policy positions, the media, and schools. "It was an astonishing thing to see the video of this student senator just with clearly no respect, no regard at all to either the rights of the students who had set up that display, or the intent of the display and the real meaning of that display," he shares.
 
Ivey contends this is just a snapshot of what conservative students face in today's higher education.
 
"This is the kind of thing that happens on college campuses on a regular basis," he says, "where conservatives face this kind of oppression -- mostly from students [but] especially from student government associations who are ... thoroughly dominated by a leftist agenda."
 
So far no disciplinary action has been taken against the student, and the student government has decided to put the issue off until next semester.

this is an absolute outrage!

these two people have absolutely no respect to freedom of speech, to the unborn babies, to the school, and to themselves.

They don't deserve to be college students since they don't know what is respect without agree.

Here is a suggestion: depend an apology (a public one would be ideal) or kick them out.