{"id":15028,"date":"2012-04-20T15:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.liveactionnews.org\/?p=15028"},"modified":"2012-04-20T23:40:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T03:40:21","slug":"vandals-trash-pro-life-display-western-kentucky-campus-police-refuse-to-stop-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vandals-trash-pro-life-display-western-kentucky-campus-police-refuse-to-stop-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandals Trash Pro-Life Display, Western Kentucky Campus Police Refuse to Stop Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/files\/2012\/04\/Vandalism13.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" title=\"CondomsonCrosses\" src=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/files\/2012\/04\/Vandalism13-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/2012\/04\/20\/wku\/\" target=\"_blank\">Students for Life<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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 campus stadium \u2013 these crosses, all 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.<\/p>\n<p>The Hilltoppers for Life group members, who had been keeping an eye on their display through the night in reaction to similar <a href=\"http:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/2012\/04\/20\/2012\/04\/03\/pro-life-clothesline-ripped-down-at-northern-kentucky-university\/\">acts of vandalism<\/a> to pro-life displays at other campuses including nearby Northern Kentucky University, asked the art students to stop and then called campus police.\u00a0 The students refused and the campus police just stood by and watched.\u00a0 The police claimed that they, \u201ccouldn\u2019t do anything because the condoms aren\u2019t actually vandalization,\u201d even though the crosses are the property of Hilltoppers for Life and they have the administration\u2019s permission for their display.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Students for Life: 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 campus stadium \u2013 these crosses, all 3,700 of them, symbolize how many unborn children die through abortion each day in the US and were installed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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