Students Charged for Challenging Mrs. Cheney's Homosexual Marriage Stance

[xultar]

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/3/242004e.asp

AgapePress) - Three University of Maryland students claim they were harassed and intimidated by university police during a recent visit to the school by the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney. Yet somehow, it is the students who are facing charges for their actions at the campus event.

That event was a question-and-answer session on policy issues featuring Lynne Cheney, a former homosexual rights activist whose daughter is openly homosexual. The incident happened after graduate student Ryan Grim asked the Vice President's wife a volatile question: "Dr. Cheney, would you attend your daughter Mary's wedding if she married a person of the same gender?"

That was when, according to Grim, the university police descended on him and two other students and threatened them with arrest. The police have since charged the three students with disorderly conduct and disrupting a student event, and Grim and the others could face penalties ranging from a letter of reprimand to expulsion.

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You gotta be kidding me...
Kids arrested for asking the 2nd Lady a question?
What is this world coming to?

[WillParkinson]

1. How DARE those kids think!

What are we sending them to school for if not to learn to tow the line?

[liberalhistorian]

2. Unfortunately, that is

EXACTLY what the RW thinks school, including (and maybe even especially) college, is for!

[truthspeaker]

3. asking questions at a question-and-answer session...

Damn those pesky liberals!

[tom_paine]

4. You KNOW what this world is coming to

Ray Bradbury knew.
George Orwell knew.

Both men knew what kind of world the Busheviks would have to aim for even before the dcurrent crfop of Monsters was born.

The world knows what it's coming to. It came to it before, in 1933.

[demnan]

5. Well, if she didn't want any challenging questions

she should have handed out the questions she wanted to be asked ahead of time

Like they do at Bush's Press Conferences!

[Ilsa]

6. Minor detail...just so you should know...

My understanding is that Mrs. Cheney's title is more appropriately "The Vice President's First Lady" or something to that effect.

[BootinUp]

7. Hear no evil, speak no evil...

can't wait to see what the judge says.

[terrya]

8. When was Lynne Cheney a gay rights activist?

Just curious...

Terry

[rocktivity]

9. Call the ALCU and countersue!

It was a perfectly fair and balanced question. This is blatant civil rights violation! SUE THAT SCHOOL OUT OF BUSINESS!

P.S. Check out http://www.dearmary.com

:headbang:
rocknation

[cryofan]

10. And of course this was never reported by the mainstream media

Even though Lynne Cheney is a fairly prominent figure.

Here is a report by one of the arrested students:

http://www.inform.umd.edu/News/Diamondback/archives/2004/03/05/commentary4.html

[MissMillie]

11. You think maybe

the administration will only agree to a question and answer event with the public unless they can tell the public which questions to ask.

[tigereye]

12. c'mon what did she think people would ask

I would think the charges would be thrown out...