Christian students silenced by GC&SU’s liberal mentality

Georgia College & State University, for all of its open-minded, tolerant proclamations, has slowly and steadily silenced a group of individuals on its campus.

These individuals contribute daily to the campus vibrancy, to its classrooms, to its organizations and to its sports.

They are of every shape, size, hair color, gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background. Walking past one of these individuals on the way to class, one would probably never think twice about the individual.

This group of individuals does indeed have its own fair share of campus organizations to participate in. These groups provide a haven for this group when almost nothing else can. Associating with other individuals in this group encourages those feeling as though they are isolated and overlooked.

This group has been silenced due in part to the fact that, for the most part (and that is a totally unscientific, un-researched, totally assumed and potentially false generalization), these individuals hold conservative moral views.

Many of these individuals, by the world’s standards, would be labeled as close-minded homophobics who don’t support a woman’s right to chose to murder her unborn child.

Similarly, many of these individuals would be laughed at in the name of science for their beliefs on the topic of evolution versus creationism.

Even closer to home, many of these individuals have undoubtedly come under fire in the “liberalized” – by our very mission statement – classrooms they attend. They have sat through numerous lectures in which professors have offended them deeply, yet have been silenced when they attempt to speak up. Silenced in the name of, heaven forbid, offending someone with this group’s intolerant beliefs.

These individuals are a religious group of people that hold firm to the beliefs they feel conviction about. Other groups exhibiting this same firmness of belief (Civil Rights groups, feminists groups, homosexual rights groups, etc.) are looked at as “passionate” about that which they believe to be right and this “passion” is looked at as commendable in the very least.

In this great day of open-minded tolerance, why are there still groups lacking a voice? Why are the very groups preaching that everyone be “tolerant” exhibiting the very intolerance they preach against?

So who is this group of people, anyway? They are the Christians.

Their voice, silenced in the name of being open-minded, tolerant and not “pushing their beliefs on others,” has practically ceased to exist in the collective voice of this university.

One would think, wouldn’t you, that it would contradict the very open-minded tolerance this campus is so proud of to silence a group because they are different, right?

Welcome to the world of a Christian.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Sep 24 2004. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry