University Prefers Porn Poster Girl Over Conservative Columnist
by Jim Brown
March 5, 2004
(AgapePress) - The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) is being criticized not only for funding a porn star to promote risky sexual behavior on campus, but also for suppressing the free speech of conservatives on campus.
Recently the College Republicans group at UNCG was denied university funding for a "Morals Week" it was planning to coincide with UNCG's "Gay Pride Week." The pro-homosexual event featured a "Drag Queen Day" and a "Gay Prom," and its organizers were able to secure funding from the college for its activities.
The College Republicans subsequently invited TownHall.com columnist Mike Adams to the Greensboro campus to speak on the topic of political correctness. But just an hour before his speech, Adams discovered that the school recently hosted another speaker -- a porn star who refers to herself as "the poster girl for anal sex."
After reading details of the event in UNCG's student newspaper, the speaker became outraged. "That's where, for me, it really crossed the line because it wasn't just the university talking," Adams says. "It was obvious that the university had funded this speech."
The conservative commentator says he read on and learned that the majority of the thousands of dollars required to sponsor the speaker had come from the UNC Wellness Center, which he notes, "comes directly from taxpayer funds, and that is what I found to be extremely disturbing."
But it only added to Adams' sense of outrage to realize that the same university that had funded an icon for immoral behavior had denied the application of the College Republicans for funding for his own visit. He says the conservative student group was "passing around a hat to pay for my hotel room. The university wouldn't fund anything -- not only an honorarium, they wouldn't fund any travel expenses or anything like that."
Adams feels it is ridiculous that "corrupt educational leaders" at the school would refuse funding to the College Republicans for his visit, but had no problem paying a porn star to promote anal sex in the name of "wellness" and "diversity."
And when university officials were asked about the denial of the Republican students' request for funding, their only response, according to Adams, was that they understood the group's guest to be a conservative political speaker and would not fund such speech. However, the columnist says that policy does not line up with the law.
"The Supreme Court has spoken on this issue in an important case about four years ago, the Southward case," Adams notes. "It is very clear that when you have student activity fees and students paying into a system, it cannot be politically biased."
Adams says the College Republicans are either going to have to assert their rights formally and win or, if denied, pursue litigation to have their constitutional rights upheld.
