From Life Site News.
Excerpt:
The board of the student union at the oldest university in Australia has voted 6-5 to approve the only pro-life student society in Australia.
The decision has been met with outrage by stunned pro-abortion students (one of whom described the pro-life society as “f***ed” and “bulls***”), who have begun organising events, petitions and constitutional amendments which would ban pro-life groups from ever again gaining approval at the university.
Yesterday, Friday June 1, the board of the University of Sydney Union (USU) approved the registration of LifeChoice Sydney, a nonpartisan, nonsectarian pro-life advocacy group which aims to “promote the dignity of human life from conception to natural death” at Sydney University.
[…]Outraged students have begun composing a motion calling for the USU board to rescind the registration of LifeChoice, censure the board members who voted in favour of their registration, and amend the USU constitution to read:
“The Board shall be forbidden from registering or providing any funding, resources, publicity or use of Union premises to a group discriminatory on the basis of sex, sexuality, gender diversity, class, race and ethnicity or disability, including any group which opposes a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion.”
Meanwhile, an online petition has been created on the website of activist group GetUp!, demanding that the USU overturn its decision to approve the group. “This isn’t about freedom of speech or equal opportunity,” the petition reads. “This is about funding and giving legitimacy to a group whose sole target is women. This ‘LifeChoice’ Society is an attack on women’s rights and by allowing its formation the Union is failing its students and undermining the inclusiveness it seeks to promote.”
[…]In August 2006, roughly 15 police and security guards were needed to protect a small crowd of students at Sydney University attending a guest lecture by Mississippi pro-lifer Terri Herring, when a coalition of roughly 80 protestors attempted to disrupt the event.
What’s wrong with a different point of view? Who’s being intolerant now?
WINTERY KNIGHT 
The cognitive dissonance on the part of the pro-death students is astounding. Not even the slightest pretense of tolerance or free speech in their activism.
It just goes to show the best response to liberal appeals to tolerance and free speech is derisive laughter.
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On the contrary, if you wish to truly support free speech, such appeals should not be met with laughter, but calm consideration. Disagree, but do so on legitimate and reasoned grounds. The only way to affect true change and acceptance, no matter the issue, is to offer your opposition a platform so you can honestly counter it.
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Interesting that any time a phrase like this is used: “[your] group [may not be] discriminatory on the basis of sex, sexuality, gender diversity, class, race and ethnicity or disability” it always includes “religion” as well. I’ve never seen this type of line used and “religion” not be included. I wonder if this is a taste of things to come?
Also, I don’t get why pro-choice people can’t even see why abortion might be viewed as a contentious issue. Even if I became an atheist tomorrow I would still be pro-life. The only belief one needs to bring to the table is that one values human life. Since when did the idea that human life has value become so oppressive and monstrous that the even the idea itself can’t be tolerated?
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I noticed that “religion” was lacking from that clause as well. It stuck out like a sore thumb and set an alarm bell ringing for me, too.
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“… including any group which opposes a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion.”
Did they just add a new requirement as if it has always been included with the others? How do they relate? Can someone tell me?
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Yes. It is a proposed amendment to the constitution, with the specific intent to prevent union recognition and funding of pro-life groups.
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It is so bizarre to see that pro-aborts do not see how intolerant, hateful, and condemning they really are. The lack of self-awareness in people of this rabid worldview is glaring to anyone who observes matters with their eyes and minds, rather than their hormones and self-interests.
What comes to me is that “the god of this world has blinded their eyes” so that they cannot see or know the truth. They need PRAYERS of intercession that the eyes of their understanding will be opened and that the God of HOPE will draw them to Himself.
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Nothing is beyond the pale for people who demand the “freedom” to murder inconvenient babies.
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