And throwing things at Christian preachers. If they didn't like the preaching there was no need for them to stay.
The Union Free Speech Zone lived up to its name Thursday as two Christian men preached, sparking debates and drawing a crowd of more than 100 students. Starting at about 11 a.m., Don Karns, a resident of Virginia, and Shawn Holes, a resident of Idaho who refers to himself as “Shawn the Baptist,” set up camp on a grassy hill and began to preach, Bibles in hand.
Karns drew the most attention with his loud rhetoric and signs that read “evolution is a lie” and “repent now.” Part-way through the three-hour demonstration, U students stole a few of his posters, drawing their own inscriptions on the back in protest.
Other students who opposed the preachers’ views made their own, satirical signs to counter the preachers’ and mocked them by shouting, “hail Satan” and “sin will save us.”
The demonstration prompted clusters of conversations among students throughout the Plaza as well as heated displays of dissent, including heckling, shouting and a water bottle thrown at the preachers, which Karns said hit him in the forehead.
At one point, Karns asked the crowd, “Do you hate us being here?” Several members of the crowd shouted back, “No, we hate you.”
Annie Christensen, dean of students, confronted the crowd and reaffirmed the rules of the Free Speech Zone, including not to single anyone out with derogatory terms or violent threats.
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6 comments:
How typical of the hard-core Left. The only message they want heard is their own.
It depends what the "format" is for this free zone area, and if shouting and heckling is part of the expected "fun", whoever the speaker or preacher is.
If they had been muslims they would have received a standing ovation from that crowd of hooligans
Anon 239, Theft, threats, vandalism, and assault and battery are not free speech. They are crimes and actionable torts. The heckling and mocking is fine. Speech met with speech. The leftists become violent when confronted by speech they disagree with.
Firstly - Free Speech Zone? This is a public University - the whole University is a free speech zone.
Secondly, heckling is to be expected in this type of environment - no problems there.
Lastly, the destruction of property and violence is always inappropriate.
Anyone who destroys private or public property should be made to pay through the nose for it
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