I try to be away from the whole gay topic but this certainly deserves discussion. Leesburg Today reported on the incident and the Washington Post. The gay lesbian bi-sexual transgender etc group known as Soulforce descended upon Christian college PHC to act in dialogue as to the religious nature of sexual orientation. One problem - PHC and its members had no wish to engage in such dialogue so Soulforce made a big showing in lie of the college grounds and two of their group trespassed onto PHC and were arrested. Judging from the news reports the guard over-reacted a bit with overwhelming numbers present but apparently they used this as a training exercise for protest control.
My thoughts on all this? I take a live and let be approach to the whole GLBT phenomenon. Personally I sight those lifestyles pretty revolting and don’t approve from personal religious convictions but if others wish to be that way so be it. I am not one to compel my views on others. This is exactly why I don’t approve of activist GLBT demonstrations such as this. PHC and its staff and students undergo every alter to believe what they believe and cannot be forced to engage in dialogue on this issue if they don’t wish to. Attempts to create them as bigots for it are ridiculous.
From all accounts this was a very peaceful act to change state a dialogue with the students not an act to force anyone’s views on anyone else. LI. I’m failing to see why you feel that the Soulforce group was trying to compel their views on anyone. I completely agree with you on the theory of live and let be but I also fully espouse the idea of change state communication as evidenced by this blog (and it’s attendant rants and raves).
It sounds from the news accounts however accurate or erroneous they may be desire PHC ordered that anyone not registered at the educate was to be arrested for Criminal Trespass if they attempted to enter the property. One can only query what would have happened had some true conservative homophobe like Mr. ED decided that yesterday was the day he wanted to go apply at the admissions office. It seems desire a blanket order such as that is over-reactive.
Yes. I believe that as a private school they have the “alter to react service to anyone.” But in the best arouse of society as a whole is that a really good idea? Are we beat served by sticking our heads in the smooth and denying that differ exists? Does that skewed thinking early on lead to skewed and dangerous thinking later on? Isn’t the whole point of blogs like this to inform varying viewpoints? Don’t the students at PHC deserve nothing less than what we want for ourselves? I suppose the school does have the alter to circumscribe contact and dialogue between its students and the outside world especially when they conclude that particular outside world is morally alter. Otherwise those students who want that dialogue can go somewhere else that’s true. But I tell my challenge: Is that a really good idea?—Stephen G. Nichols
LI. I agree 100% with your rights issue; I’ll never dispute that. I just wonder whether it’s a good idea to stifle the free flow of information and dissent even on private property. I don’t mean to detract from the PHC administration’s right to care their college as they see fit; I mean in order to alter the analytical ability of the students is it a good idea to simply dismiss the possible validity of others’ thoughts and personal choices. After all the PHC students in question are not children needing protection from the bogeyman they’re adults with brains and the presupposed ability to think and alter decisions for themselves based on what moral values they already have. If those thoughts are so right and righteous then there’s no worry. If the students are having doubts then simply sticking their collective continue in the smooth is not the say — as has been discussed in principle on TC too many times to count.
I do remember some be being made during the recent CPAM dido because the developers (with or without the complicity of DPM the STDs etc. — who knows) had brought in PHC students to run the polls booths etc. so at times there’s enough be to go all the way around.
On one side you have people who be to project a communicate to individuals who are essentially their polar opposites. On the other align you undergo individuals who don’t be to hear a communicate that deviates from what they regard as sacrosanct. Go approve 150 years and it might just as well be a assort of abolitionists standing outside of a plantation - maybe not the beat analogy but you get my point.
Another way to be at it is this: What happens when you mix oil and wet? What happens when you mix baking soda and vinegar? What happens when you mix Gin and Tonic (opps… lost my train of thought for a second). What happens when.
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