Smith College students protest the ’Born Gay Hoax’
Smith College students protest the ’Born Gay Hoax’
#1Smith College students protest the ’Born Gay Hoax’
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:15pm
Okay, Smith College in North Hampton, MA. Did they think something like this would go over at Smith? Its like inviting Michael Savage to speak at the Harvey Milk School!
From Bay Windows:
When Smith Republican Club members hung a banner advertising a speaking engagement at the college for Ryan Sorba, author of The Born Gay Hoax they probably planned for a moderate turnout, and certainly expected that attendees would at least come in through the door.
But neither was the case. Videos and photos of protests sparked by Sorba’s April 29 appearance at the college have been posted on Queertoday.com and Massresistance’s website. Each of the videos show the room full to capacity with people chanting and cheering, drowning out Sorba’s speech. At one point, the large arched windows at the rear of the hall can been seen to be opened and more protesters step into a room already crowded with students clapping, cheering, and chanting "We’re here. We’re Queer. Get used to it!"
Students eventually surround the podium and, after some inaudible discussion with security and a very defeated looking Republican Club member, Sorba is escorted out of the room.
http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=blog&sc2=news&sc3=&id=74016
There are also video footage of the event and a copy of a notice posted to the school's web site at the link.
#2smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:25pmyep, that's something to be proud of: denying a person the right to express their views is truly the american way. i hope that you'll support this view the next time some gay speaker is shouted out of a room with cries of "faggot" "c*cks*cker" "ass muncher" and the like.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
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#2smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:39pm
Good for those wacky gals--note to speaker and his booker--know your audience!
Oh and papa, "We're here, we're queer, get used to it" is NOT the same as personal attacks and name-calling. The students have a right to voice their opinions in an environment in which they have paid to be members. It's NOT a public forum.
Updated On: 5/6/08 at 04:39 PM
#3smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:40pmi hope their next meeting is interrupted by a gang of men chanting, "whores."
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#4smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:42pmI'm with you Pops. You can't expect to be heard if you won't listen yourself.
#5smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:49pmThey were not violent and they have the right to protest. Point is, its Smith College in a pretty liberal and gay friendly town. I blame the faculty for inviting him more than the speaker. If you notice in the video, the room was hardly even filled.
#6smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 4:50pm
"i hope their next meeting is interrupted by a gang of men chanting, 'whores.'"
I would LOVE to see that...
And it was a speaking engagement--not a meeting.
#7smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 5:00pm
sorry, i hope the next lesbian invited to speak at the college is shouted down by men and forced to leave the stage. i mean if you disagree with a person why should they be allowed to speak? i think that's the right way to go about things and that anyone with a differing viewpoint from the majority should be shouted down and driven from the stage.
i look forward to hearing people here celebrating groups of rednecks to "protesting" meetings of gay and lesbian organizations in small towns that are predominantly redneck. they're the majority and those queers ought to know better than to take their lies to such places, right? i look forward also to predominantly white audiences shouting down minority speakers and chasing them from the stage in predominantly white areas. their kind doesn't really belong there anyway.
oh, yeah, it's different because you agree with the protesters, isn't it?
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#8smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 5:11pm
No, it's because the students PAY to go to Smith College and have a right to protest anything they'd like--just like the Gay Student Association was protested at my college campus.
I would imagine that a Holocaust-denying guest speaker would receive the same treatment at a Jewish college.
"those queers ought to know better than to take their lies to such places, right?"
Once again, the protesters didn't have to resort to name-calling. They stuck to "we're here/we're queer"...think you can manage the same?
#9smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 5:51pmYeah, you know Papa ... "We're straight, we hate, EVAPORATE!"
#10smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 5:58pmWow, Smith College is probably the worst place to have an event like this. You really can't say that the club who booked him didn't expect this.
#11smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 6:40pmyeah, because university students are the last people who should be exposed to differing viewpoints.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#12smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 6:50pm
Did anyone actually read the website?
The photo caption reads, "Dykes to watch out for: Smith College students shut down speech by Ryan Sorba, author of The Born Gay Hoax."
Didn't an employee of Jamba Juice get in trouble for calling a customer dyke? What's the difference here?
#13smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 6:53pmclearly the author was a lesbian taking back the word and using her power.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#14smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 7:06pmI completely agree with Papa; a group who claims to be silenced sure did a phenomenal job of silencing Sorba. This was nothing more than a pseudo-powered attempt at proving a point.
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#15smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 7:30pm
Yeah, they sure exposed us all, didn't they? A bunch of dipsh*ts makes a disturbance with someone no one's ever heard of negates the institutionalized homobigotry of our society. Well, done, Harper3!
This was nothing more than a pseudo-powered attempt at proving a point.
As opposed to being what? A cotillion?
#17smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:18pm
papa - I didn't mean college students in general, I meant Smith students - known for being very liberal, feminist majority, and a very large percentage of lesbian students. Whether or not it was right or wrong does not change the fact that it was expected.
Also, on the subject of the actual speech, I looked into it a little bit, and some of what he's saying is just blatantly incorrect:
Ryan's lecture insists that all people are "born straight" and that there is a "born gay" hoax that has been furthered without any scientific evidence. The idea of being "born gay" is relatively new to the homosexualist movement, yet this idea has had terrible consequences.
Personally, I don't mind if people think homosexuality is wrong, evil, disgusting, etc. but when someone tries to tell me that I chose to be gay? That I went through all this crap in the last few years for no reason other than my sexuality because I wanted to? Because I woke up one morning and thought that maybe being gay is fun? That's where we have a problem.
#18smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 9:25pmso he has no right to say it?
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
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#19smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 9:52pm
Free speech works both ways.
He was outnumbered in this case.
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#20smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 9:55pmI always wonder why black people complain they aren't heard. They were all I heard on the bus today.
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#21smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 9:57pmYou ride the bus?
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#22smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 9:57pmWhen I can't take the EL or the Metra, yes.
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#23smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:03pmWell, g'on witya bad self.
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#24smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:03pmMrs Stone does NOT drive.
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#25smith college proves to be full of obnoxious brats opposed to freedom
Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:23pm
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