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Ohio University Removes Posters for 'Straight Pride' Week
ABC News ^ | 2015-04-25 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/25/2015 3:15:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Posters promoting a "straight pride" week at a northeast Ohio university were removed this week after student leaders determined that the message went beyond free speech.

Youngstown State University student government leaders told WKBN-TV they decided to remove the posters after consulting with university officials.

The posters were hung around campus earlier this week. They included profanity and promoted the event as a time to not highlight sexual orientation or differences among students. They encouraged students to "go about your day without telling everyone about how 'different' you are."


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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: education; homosexualagenda; lgbt; ohio; straightpride
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Was it Univ. that took them down or the local GAY GESTOPO?


21 posted on 04/25/2015 3:41:39 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
From the article:

A statement from the student government said while it respects free speech of all students, the posters weren't authorized, contained vulgar language and missed the point of activism.

I love the notion that free speech must be authorized and that the point of activism apparently means agree with me. I'll concede the point on profanity, grudgingly, since they don't tell us exactly what it was.

Having been in college, I'll bet this response from the SGA will provoke a second round of posters, ramping up the rhetoric.

22 posted on 04/25/2015 3:51:35 PM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: TontoKowalski

“Activism” for me, but not for thee. The university nazis do not see their obvious hypocrisy, proving that you don’t have to be intelligent to go to a university.


23 posted on 04/25/2015 3:55:08 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: LegendHasIt

NAZI and Nancy thuggery seems to go hand in hand.


24 posted on 04/25/2015 3:57:34 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

“Is there any one out there who does not now think we live in NAZI thuggery days?”

Engage in hyperbole much?


25 posted on 04/25/2015 4:04:12 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: TontoKowalski

I’ll just bet they “missed the point of activism”. To our nazified leadership, “activism” is the promotion of leftist causes. But even then, check with Big Brother to make sure you’re the “victim du jour”, just so you don’t step on the activism of a victim group higher up in the hierarchy than you.


26 posted on 04/25/2015 4:14:23 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They could have made a better point and had a better position if they had not used “vulgar” language on the posters.


27 posted on 04/25/2015 4:18:20 PM PDT by martinidon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So straight pride is offensive but sodomy isn’t?


28 posted on 04/25/2015 4:21:23 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: sergeantdave

Would you like to clarify?


29 posted on 04/25/2015 4:51:55 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

“Would you like to clarify?”

Why the hell would I want to clarify your statement that we’re living in Nazi Germany?

That’s your job, surrender monkey.


30 posted on 04/25/2015 5:05:40 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the company i work for has turned hard left the past 8 years...Fortune 500 company...they now have a department of social responsibility and department of diversity and inclusion...every year they celebrate gay pride this, lbgt or whatever that...

i won’t bore with the details but they encouraged all the employees to check out the diversity and inclusion site and ask questions via the internet...

so i did and asked; “we will the company start celebrating hetrosexual pride month?” of course i’m not the only employee of the company who wants to know when this will happen...

four weeks later i get a phone call from one of the grand poobahs of the department of diversity and inclusion explaining why the company does not celebrate hetrosexual pride month...right off the bat i respond “you’re not diverse or inclusive if you’re not celebrating hetrosexual pride month. You’re selective and hypocritical”...

after a 20 minute conversation the grand poobah hung up angry as they realized they would not change my point of view...


31 posted on 04/25/2015 5:43:34 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Put em back up,and defend them.


32 posted on 04/25/2015 5:55:16 PM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: EagleUSA

“..Liberals now want to silence opposition...”

Yea, if Lib’s kept their mouths closed, then you would be accused of interfering with their sex lives.


33 posted on 04/25/2015 6:00:38 PM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I guess there won’t be any “white history month” there, either.


34 posted on 04/25/2015 6:08:50 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: sergeantdave

OK you are not open to any kind of debate but instead just insults, so do one, good bye and I will leave it at that because I don’t want to get into being a mouthy internet warrior as I can’t stand them.


35 posted on 04/25/2015 7:07:46 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum


36 posted on 04/25/2015 7:13:07 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WTH?

I was born straight and now you deny me rights you regularly accord others?


37 posted on 04/25/2015 7:43:55 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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38 posted on 04/25/2015 7:51:36 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Iron Munro

Great quote!


39 posted on 04/25/2015 9:21:40 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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