SectionsFliers promoting speaker torn down
Kathleen Musgrave
Issue date: 10/16/07 Section: News
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About 450 of the 500 fliers advertising a lecture Thursday on homosexuality and the Bible at Drury University were ripped down, crumpled and thrown in campus trash cans early Thursday morning.
A group called ALLIES, a gay-straight alliance student organization at Drury which sponsored the event, posted the fliers all over the Drury campus to promote a lecture by Jack Rogers, a professor of theology emeritus at San Francisco Theological Sem-inary, on homosexuality and the church.
Rogers is discussing the issue and promoting his new book "Jesus, The Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church."
ALLIES members left the Drury campus at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday after posting the fliers. Jolie Cave, senior in psychology and religion and vice president of ALLIES, received a call early Thurs-day morning telling her the signs had been ripped down.
The only fliers that remained posted were those in the dorms, Cave said. She said the others were found in campus trash cans.
Cave said she and other members of ALLIES spent the morning smoothing out the posters that had been thrown away and hanging them up again along with new fliers that said, "We will not be silenced, closets are for clothes, and trash cans are for ignorance."
ALLIES will be filing a complaint through the university and will ask for a university investigation, Cave said.
A group called ALLIES, a gay-straight alliance student organization at Drury which sponsored the event, posted the fliers all over the Drury campus to promote a lecture by Jack Rogers, a professor of theology emeritus at San Francisco Theological Sem-inary, on homosexuality and the church.
Rogers is discussing the issue and promoting his new book "Jesus, The Bible, and Homosexuality: Explode the Myths, Heal the Church."
ALLIES members left the Drury campus at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday after posting the fliers. Jolie Cave, senior in psychology and religion and vice president of ALLIES, received a call early Thurs-day morning telling her the signs had been ripped down.
The only fliers that remained posted were those in the dorms, Cave said. She said the others were found in campus trash cans.
Cave said she and other members of ALLIES spent the morning smoothing out the posters that had been thrown away and hanging them up again along with new fliers that said, "We will not be silenced, closets are for clothes, and trash cans are for ignorance."
ALLIES will be filing a complaint through the university and will ask for a university investigation, Cave said.
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K Sweet
Kevin Sweet
posted 10/17/07 @ 1:18 AM CST
First off, I'll state that this is horrible and pathetic for a person or a group or individuals to tear down a bunch of fliers. However, I like to look at things positively, as if the glass is half full. (Continued…)
Brandon Davis
posted 10/18/07 @ 12:36 PM CST
And just think about this... For an extra 3 or 4 hours work re-hanging fliers, look at all the free publicity they got in return! Hell of a lot more than the fliers alone would have generated. (Continued…)
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