Here is a link with a video of viewpoint censorship in action!
UPDATE
ADF press release:
A pro-life student group’s display will return to a hallway at the University of Alabama Thursday. The university apologized Monday to Bama Students for Life, represented by attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, for an official’s decision to remove the display on Feb. 6 because some people said they found it “offensive.”
The official removed the display from its place in the Ferguson Student Center without any notification to the group. After Bama Students for Life, with the help of Alliance Defending Freedom, registered a formal complaint about the incident last week, the center’s director apologized for the display’s removal and said he would allow the group to put it back up.
“Censorship is inconsistent with ‘the marketplace of ideas’ that a public university is supposed to be,” said Legal Counsel Matt Sharp. “We commend the university for its quick response to Bama Students for Life’s free speech concerns.”
The display, which featured several abortion-related facts, pictures of women who died as a result of having an abortion, and two small pictures of aborted babies, was among numerous other student group displays in a hallway of the Ferguson Student Center. The president of Bama Students for Life captured the center’s event coordinator on video claiming that university policy allows her to remove displays that have “offensive or graphic material”; however, the university’s policy pertaining to display cases mentions nothing about offensive or graphic content.
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