However, the UVSS chose to deny club funding to this group because of their opinions. More precisely, it is because their posters are "offensive" and make women "feel guilty" for choosing abortion.
This is quite plainly bullshit and it makes me grumpy.
I feel guilty every time I see a poster for a yoga group -- and I am offended (as a "person of size") that the women pictured are usually very muscular and slim -- but I'm not deluded enough to think that I can crush their right to a campaign because I feel threatened by the messages implied by the posters.
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Over the past few days, the students have been voting and it has been (at least from my vantage point), brisk. This subject is one of the issues dividing candidates and I hope there is some change in the board that will support a more reasonable application of the concept of free speech.
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Except it is not a "free speech" issue. No one is being denied the right to make known their opinions. What the UVSS is doing is exercising their right as an organization to take a stand on an issue. As an organization they have decided to be pro-choice. Therefore they have no obligation to fund anti-choice groups. What is sad is that the neo-cons are on the attack and progressives are paralyzed with internal divisions thanks to political correctness run rampant. The UVSS should be fighting back against these Christo-fascists instead of cowering in a corner trying not to "offend" anyone.
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