Students counter 'Gay Pride' with 'Morals Week'
Campus GOP allowed to host event after initial rejection by officials
 

March 23, 2004
Courtesy of  WorldNetDaily.com

Reacting to school funding of "Gay Pride Week," campus Republicans at a southern university have overcome opposition by officials to hold "Morals Week."

The administration at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro initially rejected the request by the College Republicans, but this week students will be offered events such as "American Pride Day," "Abstinence Day" and "Right to Life Day," reports Agape Press, a Christian news service.

The Republicans also will hold an "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" with special guest Vernon Robinson, a black congressional candidate. The "sale," which has sparked controversy on other campuses, charges different prices for items based on race and gender to illustrate inequities in affirmative action policies.

UNCG's annual "Gay Pride Week" began Sunday with events funded directly and indirectly by the university, such as a drag queen show and "prom."

Campus Republicans chairman Travis Billingsley said his group is trying to reverse the school's history of not welcoming conservatives.

"We believe that [school officials] shut out any kind of activities that conservative students have, and that goes along with any kind of Christian organization as well," he said, according to Agape. "We're really looking forward to changing that."

But Billingsley said the administration refused to give his group equal funding and support. The Republicans will have to pay for a special guest coming this Friday to speak on political correctness, author Mike Adams, because the school said it wouldn't fund "conservative" speakers or anything to do with "morals."

Adams pointed out however, the school paid a porn star last month to bring her "safe sex" message to campus.

"A university that has no problem paying for porn stars promoting a--- sex will not pay any expenses for conservative speakers because they are simply too offensive," Adams said in one of his regular columns for Townhall.com.

Adams discovered most of the thousands of dollars required to sponsor the porn star was from the UNC Wellness Center, which "comes directly from taxpayer funds, and that is what I found to be extremely disturbing."

Adams noted, according to Agape, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the issue four years ago.

"It is very clear that when you have student activity fees and students paying into a system, it cannot be politically biased," he said.