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Early this morning campus police at Western Kentucky University (WKU) refused to stop vandals from draping condoms on the top of small crosses in the stadium – these crosses, 3,700 of them, symbolize how many unborn children die through abortion each day in the US and were installed by the Hilltoppers for Life group on campus. The vandals were art students who claimed the condoms were part of an art project.
The Hilltoppers for Life group members, who had been keeping an eye on their display through the night in reaction to similar acts of vandalism to pro-life displays at other campuses including nearby Northern Kentucky University, asked the art students to stop and then called campus police. The students refused and the campus police just stood by and watched. The police claimed that they, “couldn’t do anything because the condoms aren’t actually vandalization,” even though the crosses are the property of Hilltoppers for Life and they have the administration’s permission for their display.
Claiming art as vandalism is disingenuous and disturbing at best. The desecration of the crosses at WKU is sacrilegious, offensive, and borders on a hate crime. While we have seen vandalism before at other campuses across the nation, it is not uncommon for students to face opposition of this nature but usually the campus police do help out and stop the vandalism rather than hide behind some ‘artistic expression’ excuse.
Take action and express your outrage over the vandalism and desecration of Western Kentucky University (WKU) Hilltoppers for Life’s cross display by:
1) Adding your name to this petition which will be sent to the WKU Administration.
2) Call or Email WKU Police Captain of Professional Standards at his non-emergency number, 270-745-2543 or joe.harbaugh@wku.edu to express your outrage and demand the university apologize to WKU Hilltoppers for Life and to train the campus police that putting condoms on some one else's crosses is not art or freedom of expression, it is desecration and vandalization.
3) Forward this petition on to friends, so that WKU will get the message loud and clear that condoms on crosses is not art!
Sign Petition Here:
https://www.abolishabortion.com/petition/tell-wku-condoms-crosses-not-art
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