The irony here is amazing.
A California college student government president says he is feeling the wrath of peers and school administration and facing a recall election because he allowed a pro-life display on campus during the school's Constitution Day.
Each year, the Sacramento City College Associated Student Government votes to invite outside groups and speakers to participate in a two-day event on campus in celebration of the Constitution and free speech. But ASG President Steve Macias, a 19-year-old Christian student, is now subject to a recall election because he allowed the Genocide Awareness Project, a group affiliated with the Sanctity of Human Life Network, to host a pro-life exhibit.
The student government unanimously voted to allow the Genocide Awareness Project to host a display on campus Sept. 16 and 17 as part of the Constitution Day event.
The display ignited debate after photographs of aborted unborn babies offended some students.
Macias told WND Sacramento City College Vice President of Student Affairs Michael Poindexter and ASG faculty adviser Lee Weathers-Miguel pulled him out of class and demanded that he tell the pro-life group to leave campus – even though the community college campus is open to the public.
"I was in class," he said. "The administration tried to call my phone a million times. Eventually, I walked out of the classroom and picked up the phone. They said, 'Where are you at?' We need to talk to you now. I said, 'I'm in class.' They said, 'Stay there. We'll come and get you.'"
Macias said the vice president and faculty adviser told him to tell the pro-life group to leave immediately.
"I said, 'I can't tell them to leave. They have every right to be here.'"
He said the administrators responded, "Go out there and tell them to move their display somewhere off campus or turn their signs around. Tell them this isn't OK."
Macias responded, "I can't tell them to do any of that. They have every right to be here, and it's not my place to tell them what to do with their display."
He said they also told him he should have invited a pro-abortion group to the event.
"After I refused to tell the group to take it down, they said, 'We're pi--sed off about this. This is unacceptable,'" Macias said. "They said if I had invited people from the other side, this would have been OK. If I would have included Planned Parenthood in this, then it would be perfectly fine. But because I hadn't, they needed to go."
HT: Andrea S.