CAMPUS

Tolerance and Respect on Display at Spokane Falls Community College

Yes, it’s my spring break. But campus controversies wait for no blogger.

Beth Sheeran, a student at Spokane Falls Community College and a member of their Christian Club, has filed suit against her school after they barred her organization from posting pro-life literature in a campus display case. Apparently, Sheeran’s message was discriminatory because it did not include a pro-choice viewpoint.

The school’s Director of Student Funded Programs threatened Sheeran and her counterparts with expulsion if they did not also show pro-choice statistics with their display. This director is also part of SFCC’s Stop the Hate Committee, and said that someone could take the statistics Sheeran cited as hate.

I have to wonder if the same fate would befall a campus gay rights organization. Would they be asked to present anti-gay viewpoints? I think they probably wouldn’t. Apparently it’s hateful to cite statistics opposing abortion, but not to threaten the students doing so with expulsion from the college.