U. of Calgary to students: “Get involved on campus”?
Here’s the home page of the University of Calgary’s website, as it appears this morning. (Click on image for larger view.)
Unless you’re pro-life. In that case, the university does not want you to “get involved on campus”. If you get involved in pro-life activities on campus, the university will send Calgary police to your home and have you charged with trespassing on the campus where you were encouraged to “get involved”.
Over the past few weeks, Calgary police have been turning up at the homes of anti-abortion university students, charging them with trespassing on the very campus where they are enrolled in classes.
Campus Pro-Life members will not be deterred from getting involved on campus.
Calling the charges a “blatant attack on free speech,” Campus Pro-Life president Leah Hallman stood in front of the school’s MacKimmie Library to deliver a speech that would cast her organization’s dispute with the school’s governors as an historic battle for Canadian liberties: “The road to the liberty we enjoy in Canada was long and fraught with deadly peril. Many brave men and woman took it upon themselves to bear upward the sacred torch of freedom to greater heights,” she proclaimed. “Once more, Canada faces a challenge to test her commitment to the ideals upon which she was founded, and upon which her society now stands.”
Clearly, Ms Hallman has a lot more guts and honesty than the bullies in the university administration office.
If the university does not back off and apologise to Campus Pro-Life, the message on its website will need to be revised. I suggest: “Go quietly to your classes”.
h/t: Ezra Levant
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