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01-28-2006, 10:08 AM
Townhall.com :: Columns :: Pro-life on campus by Nathanael Blake - Jan 27, 2006 (http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/NathanaelBlake/2006/01/27/184104.html)
CORVALLIS, OR -- As Oregon State University's pro-life group marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade this year, the scene was familiar. Beginning my freshmen year, we conservatives have commemorated the lives lost to abortion by planting 3,000 wooden crosses in the center of campus. Well, we tried; the first year, 2,000 were stolen the night before the display.
We had pro-choicers gather with signs to counter-protest again, though this year they remained surprisingly civil. The more virulent opposition relied on hit and run tactics: quickly tearing up crosses (sometimes breaking them), yelling obscenities while walking by, flipping the bird at us, and the like.
One thing that was new was being able to watch the daily paper’s reporter interview the pro-choice protestors for her article on the display. I was over in their territory discussing the issue when she approached, and not recognizing me as the noxiously conservative columnist from her paper, she took me to be one of them. It felt like a Discovery Channel documentary: “And here we see the liberali activistus returning to its native habitat, where it sheds the markings of the reporteri objectivum it had assumed as camouflage.”
Excellent article!
It is simply fascinating to me how ...
Pro-life marches, human chains, prayer vigils, gatherings, ...
are dangerous and threatening and should be illegal,
and yet
responses by the "pro-death" crowd ...
confrontational verbal exchanges, tearing up crosses or displays (sometimes breaking them),
yelling obscenities while walking/driving by, flipping the bird, making crude and/or lude gestures, and the like, ...
are legal NON-threatening examples of protest.
:smirky:
CORVALLIS, OR -- As Oregon State University's pro-life group marked the anniversary of Roe v. Wade this year, the scene was familiar. Beginning my freshmen year, we conservatives have commemorated the lives lost to abortion by planting 3,000 wooden crosses in the center of campus. Well, we tried; the first year, 2,000 were stolen the night before the display.
We had pro-choicers gather with signs to counter-protest again, though this year they remained surprisingly civil. The more virulent opposition relied on hit and run tactics: quickly tearing up crosses (sometimes breaking them), yelling obscenities while walking by, flipping the bird at us, and the like.
One thing that was new was being able to watch the daily paper’s reporter interview the pro-choice protestors for her article on the display. I was over in their territory discussing the issue when she approached, and not recognizing me as the noxiously conservative columnist from her paper, she took me to be one of them. It felt like a Discovery Channel documentary: “And here we see the liberali activistus returning to its native habitat, where it sheds the markings of the reporteri objectivum it had assumed as camouflage.”
Excellent article!
It is simply fascinating to me how ...
Pro-life marches, human chains, prayer vigils, gatherings, ...
are dangerous and threatening and should be illegal,
and yet
responses by the "pro-death" crowd ...
confrontational verbal exchanges, tearing up crosses or displays (sometimes breaking them),
yelling obscenities while walking/driving by, flipping the bird, making crude and/or lude gestures, and the like, ...
are legal NON-threatening examples of protest.
:smirky: