Greg Clark
04-08-2004, 05:01 PM
More reasons why I can't stand this backwards redneck college town I'm stuck in--
A&M Groups Clash over Sexuality Issue
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STATION, TX-- A group of students gathered outside of the Academic Building Tuesday equipped with signs promoting heterosexuality, along with another group of students who prostested the "heterosexual pride" rally.
"We're just out here supporting what we believe in," said Ellis Menchaca, a junior agriculture life sciences major. "We're just very passionate about our way of life."
The group of students that held signs emblazoned with phrases such as "Thank your parents for being straight," "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," and "Straight as an Arrow," is not part of a student organization, but every year through word-of-mouth and flyers, they manage to organize a congregtion of students and signs, Menchaca said.
In response to the rally, another group of students held signs promoting diversity while verbally demoting the rally itself. This group was also made up of various students not under the umbrella of a particular student organization.
"Unfortunatly, the implication of (the demonstration's) actions was the promotion of the supremecy of heterosexuality," said Ilya Y. Rostotsev, a juinor applied mathmatics major. "(The demonstrators) have no cause--they have their rights, none of their civil liberties are being denied."
The students promoting hetersexuality were not bashing homosexuals, said Bill Sebring, a sophmore general studies major.
"(Homosexuals) supports their rights-- we support ours," Sebring said. "All we think is since they get to promote their side, we should get to promote ours also."
The group, which had attained a permit through Texas A&M to legally carry out its demonstration, will be demonstrating again on Wednesday in the vicinity of the Academic Building. Students interested in holding demonstrations should check with University rules pertaining to on-campus demonstrations and permit issuing.
Rostotsev said he was concerned about what people visiting the campus would think about the student body based on the actions of the few demonstrators.
"The students on campus will have their minds made up," Rostovtsev said. "But visiting students and parents will look at the demonstrators and wonder how friendly this campus really is."
Complete and total bullshit. This isn't the first time this has happened, either. A Gay/Straight Allience was started at my high school my senior year, and parents called up an emergency school board meeting to protest such an organization existing in a school full of "impressionable minds."
I'll be so glad to get the hell out of here next year.
A&M Groups Clash over Sexuality Issue
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE STATION, TX-- A group of students gathered outside of the Academic Building Tuesday equipped with signs promoting heterosexuality, along with another group of students who prostested the "heterosexual pride" rally.
"We're just out here supporting what we believe in," said Ellis Menchaca, a junior agriculture life sciences major. "We're just very passionate about our way of life."
The group of students that held signs emblazoned with phrases such as "Thank your parents for being straight," "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve," and "Straight as an Arrow," is not part of a student organization, but every year through word-of-mouth and flyers, they manage to organize a congregtion of students and signs, Menchaca said.
In response to the rally, another group of students held signs promoting diversity while verbally demoting the rally itself. This group was also made up of various students not under the umbrella of a particular student organization.
"Unfortunatly, the implication of (the demonstration's) actions was the promotion of the supremecy of heterosexuality," said Ilya Y. Rostotsev, a juinor applied mathmatics major. "(The demonstrators) have no cause--they have their rights, none of their civil liberties are being denied."
The students promoting hetersexuality were not bashing homosexuals, said Bill Sebring, a sophmore general studies major.
"(Homosexuals) supports their rights-- we support ours," Sebring said. "All we think is since they get to promote their side, we should get to promote ours also."
The group, which had attained a permit through Texas A&M to legally carry out its demonstration, will be demonstrating again on Wednesday in the vicinity of the Academic Building. Students interested in holding demonstrations should check with University rules pertaining to on-campus demonstrations and permit issuing.
Rostotsev said he was concerned about what people visiting the campus would think about the student body based on the actions of the few demonstrators.
"The students on campus will have their minds made up," Rostovtsev said. "But visiting students and parents will look at the demonstrators and wonder how friendly this campus really is."
Complete and total bullshit. This isn't the first time this has happened, either. A Gay/Straight Allience was started at my high school my senior year, and parents called up an emergency school board meeting to protest such an organization existing in a school full of "impressionable minds."
I'll be so glad to get the hell out of here next year.