Clemson University Administrator Stops Man From Praying on Campus “This isn’t a free speech area.”

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 28 Aug 16 | Aleister

[xzins]

If you haven’t been following higher education news, you may not be aware that this sort of thing is happening on college campuses all over America.

Schools are designating certain areas as “free speech zones” and in some cases even restricting those areas to certain times of day.

Before you get too angry at the administrator in this video, remember that he wasn’t the one who created this policy, he’s just charged with the awful task of enforcing it.

These ridiculous policies are created by higher level administrators in closed meetings.

Red Alert Politics reported:

Clemson stops man from praying on campus: ‘Not a free speech area’ [VIDEO]

A man was stopped by a Clemson University administrator for praying on campus, telling him and a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) activist that “this is not a designated free speech area,” and asking them to leave the area. YAF’s blog The New Guard released the video today.

The administrator, Shawn Jones who is the assistant director for client services, also called their praying “solicitation,” and demanded that they would need to fill out paperwork to continue. Clemson receives state and federal funding, and many see these restrictions as disregarding the First Amendment to the Constitution by limiting free speech to certain zones…

“I was walking across the grassy area near Fort Hill after class at about 3:15 when I saw someone sitting in a folding chair. Next to him was another folding chair with an 8×10 sign that said PRAYER. I approached him and we sat down to pray for a few minutes. When we finished, a man from the university approached us and said he could not be praying there because it was not a “designated free speech area” and presented the person who was praying with a form for the procedures for applying for “solicitation” on campus. He told him he had to leave.”

[xzins]

See link to video at Gateway pundit:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/08/clemson-university-administrator-stops-man-praying-campus-isnt-free-speech-area-video/

[4rcane]

so muslims can’t pray? Racist!

[xzins]

Just to argue with their understanding of free speech doesn’t address the Constitutional protection for free exercise of religion.

It precedes free speech in the first amendment and is a separate right.

Free exercise is the right to be YOUR religion 24/7 wherever you happen to be.

[corkoman]

BS!! Clemson is more religious-oriented than 95% of all other campuses. "Praying" does not require placards or a megaphone.

Those who want to preach on campus will have to follow the rules and go where you wont disrupt classes.

[dixie1202]

Ashamed of my alma mater. I will encourage all my old friends NOT to give 1 red cent. Can’t believe this garbage has invaded South Carolina

[Resettozero]

Greenville talk radio has a good grasp on this situation and is following up big-time.

Ain’t gonna fly in the Upstate unless Clemson secedes from S.C.

[Noumenon]

But no one stood up to this dirty little state supremacist, did they? He should have been pointedly ignored.

[DoughtyOne]

Your first mistake was thinking the Constitution is worth the paper it was written on these days.

Step back Citizen peon!

Hopefully these sorts of people will have a lot less voice during a Trump administration.

One visit by 50 Justice department personnel should reduce these symptoms.


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[Boogieman]

Just need to politely point out to him that the entire country is a “free speech area” and say you’ll pray for him.

[Gamecock]

Hmmm, Clemson is the antichrist?

[Gamecock]

[littleharbour]

Dude. Read the Constitution. Clemson still gets significant funds from the State. The Constitution is supposed to protect the free exercise of religion from State interference - including bodies funded by the State - not relegate it to a broom closet.

[ilovesarah2012]

I can’t either. This does not represent the majority view in the Upstate.

[Pollster1]

Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are severely restricted i the tiny little minds of liberals. I miss the days when even liberals supported the Bill of Rights and our God-given liberty, but that was a long time ago.

[Bitsy]

I would yank my kid out of that college so fast he would have to go back for his body parts.

All PC people. You are no longer welcome in our country. Go find another one to screw up!

[txrefugee]

Shame on Clemson, foisting these Leftists on S. C. This little Gestapo wannabe should have been handed a copy of the Constitution with the First Amendment underlined and a notice that he was being sued for a civil rights violation. If you don’t use your freedom, you lose your freedom.

[trisham]

It seems impossible that it has come to this. I never could have imagined that this would happen in our country.

[Ouderkirk]

Three of the whitest sets of teeth I’ve ever come across.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Many mistake freedom of speech for liberty to say anything at any time and not be subject to consequences. Not even a little child has that kind of freedom. “Watch your mouth.” Right language, like right thinking, does not come naturally. Praying in accord with the Creator, at least as He invites and teaches prayer, not an activity to be used in the interest of making political points.

[Petrosius]

Dear Clemson University,

The area bellow marked in dark blue is a free speak area: