Carleton University in Canada May Prohibit Pro-Life Groups on Campus

Life News ^ | 11/28/06 | Steven Ertelt

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Ottawa, Canada (LifeNews.com) -- Carleton University is coming under fire from pro-life advocates in Canada because the student government there is considering a proposal that would prohibit pro-life organizations on campus. Pro-life advocates are upset saying it would restrict free speech at the college.

Katy McIntyre, vice-president of services for the Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA), proposed a motion last week that would amend the student society's discrimination policy.

Her proposal would state that "no CUSA resources, space, recognition or funding be allocated for anti-choice purposes."

Shawn Menard, president of the association, told the CBC the motion came in response to complaints from the pro-abortion group on campus about a debate the campus pro-life group Lifeline organized about whether abortion should be legal.

"It's discriminatory to not provide a female with a choice surrounding her body," Menard said.

Sarah Fletcher, the president of Lifeline Carleton, told the CBC the motion discriminates against the pro-life group and threatens the existence of religious clubs on campus that oppose abortion as well.

"There are students at Carleton who do have a pro-life point of view, and those students need to be represented," she said. "We feel it's an infringement on our basic rights."

Meanwhile, the CBC reports that the forensics group on campus is puzzled by the proposal, saying that abortion and other hotly contested political issues should be able to be debated in a college that should support freedom of speech.

"We believe strongly in free speech. We think that good ideas win fair debates," Garnett Genius, the University Debate Society vice president, told the news service.

"And we don't really understand why it would be in the student union's or the student body's interests to suppress debate, around particularly … an issue that is so important," Genius added.

Menard said students are free to debate but shouldn't use CUSA space or money.

The council is expected to take a vote on the pro-abortion proposal on December 5.

ACTION: Contact Carleton University and express your views on this proposal. Write to Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 Canada or call (613) 520-7400. Send a fax to 613 520-4474 or contact CU President Dr. Samy A. Mahmoud at presidents_office@carleton.ca.

[Unam Sanctam]

Liberals are not tolerant of diversity and don't respect fundamental human rights of speech, religion and association.

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>> Liberals are not tolerant of diversity and don't respect fundamental human rights of speech, religion and association.

They also take a dim view of the rights of life, liberty and property; and of personal responsibility, moral law, guns, Nascar, bowling, civilization, unborn babies, children, old folks, even Wal-Mart. You really started something here. I tried to think of what they DO like and it's a short list -- fascism, taxes, death, foreign enemies, other people's money and Tibet.

[Candor7]

Well you know, liberals are a curse upon huiman kind.

Anyone with an ounce of wisdom knows that life begins at conception. A respect for life, and I mean ALL life, from a sprouted seed to a fetus, is the WAY of humankind. Why? Simply because man's ( and women's) role is to join heaven and earth. Man is the intermediary between these two primal forces.

Now whether you are Christian or otherwise, no matter what your religion, the fact that we are human saddles us with the obligation to respect life in all of it's myriad forms on this earth. Sometimes it is necessary to destroy or harvest life in order to protect life. Killing a human life is not one of these cases, no matter what arguments liberals make about stem cell research.There are very few reasons to take a developing human life, and many which give us the wisdom to foster human life and ALL life, simply because that is what humans are placed on the earth to do.

Life begins at conception and at that point so does respect for that life and for those who carry it.

The liberals at Carleton can take a long walk off a short pier. They are actually ignoramuses who do not even begin to understand the role that humans are designed to fulfill on this earth.