This comes from Ann Marie Cosgrove with Silent No More Minnesota, a group of people who speak out on the trauma of their abortion experiences:
SNMM has been trying very hard to get on the campus of the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, MN to do a Silent No More public testimony event outside...I have a contact there that has been working at this and is coming up against the same thing that happened last year...They do not want us outside...the reason being...so they say...a few years ago a Pro-Life student group put out crosses to symbolize how many children have lost their life to abortion...one student got so upset she could not take a test...so she complained...
The Life committee made a statement during a meeting we are "inappropriate" for their campus to be outside...
My understanding from the young man who is working on this that his advisor is very upset about this because this campus has allowed other groups on campus outside in the "Quad" area, to be vocal for their cause and people have gotten mad about that still they are allowed them to be there..yet they won't let us..
May I suggest to anyone who may be a alumni of the UST...to write a letter in support of us being on campus outside... if you do write a letter in support of SNMM speaking outside on UST campus be charitable in your words...This may be just the beginning of building a bridge I don't want to burn down before it's built..."thank you" to my board member for reminding me of this...Me, being just a wee bit Irish got the fight in me over this and wanted to storm the campus...well not storm but get a permit and hold a rally on the sidewalk on Summit Ave and blast them with our new really loud speaker system....
I wonder if the university has released guidelines detailing which speakers/topics are certified as "civil" and which are considered "divisive."