Monday, March 23, 2009



College backs down on order banning two pro-life students from campus

The common academic view that Christianity (but not Islam) is medieval ignorance was being acted on yet again:
"Pomona College banned two pro-life students from campus last week after they videotaped the question-and-answer session during a Planned Parenthood representative's talk and asked the representative tough questions about recent Planned Parenthood scandals. Pomona rescinded its ban this week after facing strong opposition from students, faculty, and alumni.

The pro-life students, David Daleiden, 20, and Kyle Kinneberg, 21, are members of the youth-led right-to-life advocacy group Live Action. Daleiden and Kinneberg both attend Claremont McKenna College, part of the Claremont College Consortium together with Pomona and three other undergraduate institutions. A hand-delivered letter from Pomona's Dean of Women Marcelle Holmes notified the students of the ban, claiming their videotaping had been "against college policy."

But Daleiden, president of Live Action's Claremont chapter and director of research for the national organization, said Pomona never produced the specific policy they said his group had violated, and that he and Kinneberg were denied their due process rights under the Claremont Colleges' Policy on Demonstrations.

"When alumni found out about this Orwellian situation, they were outraged," explained Daleiden. "Pomona accused us of conspiring to 'disrupt the proceedings, intimidate participants, and chill the free exchange of ideas,'" Daleiden said. "But nothing could be farther from the truth. We were entirely respectful when we asked our questions -- as our video shows."

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To ask questions is to "chill the free exchange of ideas", apparently. Classic inverted Leftist thinking. You must not question them. They are God. Only Leftist ideas may be exchanged.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm glad the college backed down, but the banishment should have never taken place.

Anonymous said...

Remember the Left's motto;

Do as we say, not as we do.

Anonymous said...

The totalitarian mindset of the left shows again. I wonder how many stories like this where the students fail to get attention occur and they have to suffer unjust punishment.

Anonymous said...

I can't wait for a college to shut down a pro-choice group. Imagine the headlines!