Completely Nuts at Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)

Never believe propaganda.  Salt Lake City claims to be the gayest city in America, but they weren’t happy at all, not after we got there.  More fake news.  Anyway, the deception was strong at Salt Lake Community College.  The students were of average intelligence.  But when it comes to the deeds of darkness, willful ignorance is hard to overcome.

Not very safe.  Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) was one of many schools that created a “safe space” for students who would be disturbed by GAP.  GAP team member Don Blythe went to investigate.  Nobody was around, so he ate all their cookies.

Don has been trying to lose some weight, so that space wasn’t safe for him … but we don’t want to get into that.

Um … could you repeat that?  Early on Day 1, a large group of students gathered on the grass across the walkway.  Several of us went over to speak with them.  We heard lots of extremely silly comments:

• “You are persuading people to say, ‘If this is what abortion is, then I don’t want this!’  You are bad.”  (Bad?  Maybe so, but also effective, apparently.)
• “You aren’t giving us facts; you are giving us quotes.”  (He did actually say that.  And that’s a fact … or maybe a quote … not too sure which.)
• (When we quoted from a medical school embryology textbook,) “That’s just according to your religious beliefs.”  (Embryology is theology.  Who knew?)
• “Planned Parenthood does everything possible to prevent abortion.  That’s the primary goal of Planned Parenthood.”
• “Convincing a woman not to have an abortion is an act of violence!”
• “Slavery has a long history.  Abortion doesn’t.  So you can’t compare the two.”
• “We ask you the same questions again and again and you keep giving us the same answers over and over!”
• “Statistics from 2014 are too old to use in 2017.  Facts change every day.”  (And, after all, as all good Southerners know, tomorrow is another day!)
• “It’s wrong to use someone else’s history to make a point.”  (Is there any history that doesn’t belong to somebody else?)
• “You don’t present all sides. People will come here and get ideas about abortion!”  Oh…so that’s what happens when we show pictures?  Who knew?)
• “These pictures hurt my heart.  I have kids but that doesn’t mean we can take women’s rights away!”
• “We don’t abort children because we hate them, it’s because the circumstances are difficult.”  (So, that means if picking cotton is difficult, then slavery is OK?)
• “Why is it wrong to kill another human being?  That sounds like a moral implication.”

Ad hominem.  A very angry man barked at CBR’s Kevin Olivier, “This shouldn’t be here!  You’re not a woman, you can’t get pregnant, you have nothing to say about abortion!”  Kevin asked, “Are you against rape?” Man: “Yes!”  Kevin: “Have you ever been raped?”  Man: “No!”  Kevin:  “Then how can you be against rape?”

Man: “That’s different; rape is an act of violence against another person.” Kevin: “And abortion is an act of violence against another person. That’s what these signs show you.”

He had no answer, so he changed the subject, “You’re lucky you’re at a school where things are calm. You should try doing this in Portland.”

Little did he know our team would be at Portland State University less than two weeks later!