Posted on 04/08/2013 3:52:23 PM PDT by Welchie25
Andrew Guernsey, a freshman at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, anticipated some push-back when he sought to resurrect the school’s pro-life organization.
He didn’t expect the group would be denied official club status.
The university’s Student Government Association rejected the club’s application March 12, citing concerns about harassment and the use of graphic images.
The group, Voice for Life, is awaiting an April 9 trial hearing before the Student Government Associations’ Judiciary Committee.
“I expected people maybe not to approve, but at the same time being able to separate their personal views from being able to tolerate differences of opinion on campus,” Guernsey said. “But that didn’t happen.”
According to the SGA, Voice for Life’s participating in sidewalk counseling “clearly violates the JHU Harassment and Code of Conduct policies.”
Guernsey, 18, said the SGA did not ask for the club’s definition of sidewalk counseling, which he said qualifies as “protected free speech.”
“These reasons that they’re giving are pretext that the student government has because they’re ultimately intolerant of pro-life views being expressed on campus,” he said. “They want to censor the message in the way they think a pro-life view should be expressed.”
A native of Ave Maria, Fla., Guernsey thought that a pro-life group was already established at Johns Hopkins when he enrolled, and he planned to join. When he discovered it had dissolved due to member inactivity, he decided to lead efforts to re-establish it.
“I saw it as an opportunity to reach out to future medical doctors, who are future leaders in the medical industry, so that they can have a chance ... to discuss important life issues like abortion, euthanasia and embryonic stem-cell research, which are prominent issues at this university,” he told the Catholic Review.
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Concerned about graphic images? They approve of abortion, but don’t want to know what an abortion is. Stupid students.
The Left is all for diversity as long as you agree with everything they say.
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