Hey everyone, I’m a conservative senior economics major at Elon University and wanted to let you all know what really happened.
The student government (SGA) decided to hold an open forum on the supposed issue of Chickfila on campus because SPECTRUM (an LGBTQ organization) has the opinion that Chickfila should be banned from campus because of Chickfila donating to supposed ‘anti-gay’ organizations.
This open forum was held the day before fall break started during midterms week and on the same night as the VP debate, thus eliminating the possibilities of most business school students or many other students who are conservative to attend due to our midterms or our wanting to watch the VP debate. The open forum wasn’t advertised that much and mostly all of SPECTRUM showed up to the open forum. For three straight hours many of their members gave emotional stories to support their opinion, which is ridiculous. There were some people there trying to show the common sense to everyone else there that Chickfila and Dan Cathy specifically is entitled to its own rights. Seeing all the SPECTRUM people there, most of the senators probably felt like they had no other choice but to vote for it.
For the first time I am ashamed of my university because of this decision. I don’t understand how the people who want everyone else to be tolerant of their sexual orientation can’t be tolerant of other people’s religious beliefs. Most of the campus has the same view I do, in the fact that Chickfila should stay and that this decision basically throws the first amendment out the window. The next step is in the president of SGA’s hands, who I personally know. He is a big conservative and has the power of vetoing the motion to suggest to the administration to ban Chickfila. If he doesn’t veto, the administration will debate over the issue and come to a final decision.
Any and all advice is welcome because I don’t want my university to be in the spotlight for this and I don’t want to be graduating from a university who supports this kind of ludicrous liberal movement.
What they did is straight out of the little red commie handbook. Pick a meeting time that is inconvenient to all but the dedicated cadre of true believers. Dominate the discussion until people get fed up and leave. Hold a vote when only your supporters are left. Textbook.
SPHINCTER would be a much more appropriate name for this group IMO.
You think these “senators” were intimitaed into voting that way? Post their names because we have got to make sure those cowards never end up in government-government.
Thank you very much for the info.
Here's some advice - protest it on the grounds that it violates both Christian and MUSLIM religious beliefs.
They'll piss on Christians, but they liss their pants over Muslims. Islam is ENTIRELY against gay marriage, at the level of "gays can't marry because we hang them first."
I'm telling you, go at these cowardly fascists from the Muslim angle, and watch them run for the hills.