Posted on 02/14/2018 12:13:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The president and founder of Kentucky’s Creation Museum in Petersburg and the Ark Encounter in Williamstown has been dropped as a speaker at the University of Central Oklahoma after a LGBT group objected.
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, had been scheduled to speak March 5 at the public university in Edmond, Okla.
Stockton Duvall, student body president at the university, took responsibility for the decision to rescind Ham’s invitation after learning of the opposition to his visit. Duvall told The Oklahoman newspaper that a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning group opposed Ham’s visit because of his view that marriage is between one man and one woman.
“I am not the first person to be personally attacked by a very vocal group on campus that has little tolerance for opposing viewpoints,” Duvall said in a written statement, referring to some Ham opponents.
Ham was to give a lecture titled “Genesis and the State of the Culture” followed by a question-and-answer session. Ham told the Oklahoman he was “shocked” the invitation was rescinded in Oklahoma, “which is considered to be in the Bible Belt area. I think it’s going to be eye-opening to a lot of people.”
In his own blog, Ham pointed out that opponents were able to shut down his campus visit, “yet the school has sponsored and given university funding toward a Drag Queen show.” Furthermore, he said, a professor who opposed his visit ‘also sponsors a safe sex carnival,’ which includes explicit, so-called learning games (that as a Christian I would describe as sexually perverse). Apparently, these events are acceptable on campus, but having a Christian come and speak is not.”
Instead, Ham is now scheduled to speak March 5 at Fairview Baptist Church near the university as a guest of pastor Paul Blair.
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Stockton Duvall, the leader of the pervert brigade at UCO.
I have news for y’all. Oklahoma is not the bastion of conservatism the Presidential vote would suggest it is. What is not Democrat is more Libertarian except for the Western Oklahoma wheat farmers. OKC and Tulsa rule the roost that is not controlled by oil interests.
Thank goodness for the tax amendment of 1992 that requires a super majority to raise taxes or this bunch would take the nickels out of a dead man’s eyes. They can spend more with less to show for it than any state I know of.
Central State in Edmond has always been more liberal for as long as I can remember. I never could understand its reason for being any more than I can places like the college at Alva or Guymon etc.
Oklahoma has less of a budget problem than a spending problem. Oklahoma can spend more money and have less to show for it than any state I am aware of. I think Nigeria must be the model here since most things look run down and worn out when they are built.
Thank goodness for the 1992 super majority amendment necessary to increase taxes or they would take the nickels out of a dead man’s eyes.
I know nothing about him. Why do you say that?
Freedom of speech lost again.
Because he has given himself over to this evil for the sake of those practiced few.
In what way?
That is a serious question. I don’t know.
We need a new name for the fag flag. Hexaflag? Sounds appropriate.
I still think that with college students and the young in general we should frame ourselves (Conservatives) as the counter revolutionists. Leftism has become safe and is the establishment, how very boring and safe. Rebel!!!
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