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(The Radiance Foundation<\/a>)\u00a0Liberal activists just hate it when people can speak freely. Those who incessantly accuse others of \u201chate speech\u201d are, themselves, haters of speech. So-called social justice warriors can\u2019t handle it when people have a different and well-informed opinion. So, if you can\u2019t (intellectually) beat \u2018em, smoke<\/a> \u2018em out.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what happened at last night\u2019s Young Conservatives of Texas<\/a>\u2019 and Trotter House<\/a> (an amazing pregnancy center located on campus) event<\/a> at University of Texas at Austin. They had invited me, as someone who was conceived in rape yet adopted and loved to present \u201cShould Have Been Aborted\u201d. The multimedia talk<\/a> that illuminated a broken worldview that declares the most vulnerable\u00a0humans are not equal<\/a>. As is expected on college campuses, whether secular or Christian, flyers got ripped down as soon as they went up. Too many students would rather fear than be challenged to think. Academic institutions have become safe spaces that increasingly serve more as prisons of controlled thought rather than places of unrestricted learning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"RyanAbout twenty minutes into the presentation the fire alarms sounded. I thought it was just a random test. Nope. It was liberalism. The whole building was evacuated, and we were forced out onto the sidewalk across from Gearing Hall. In a matter of moments there were fire trucks, police and smoke. Authorities confirmed someone targeted our event as evidenced by this photo<\/a> taken by student, Connor Ellington, after everyone else had exited.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank heaven no one was hurt, but freedom takes a serious blow every time liberal activists try to shut down free speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This attack has become the norm for conservative, prolife and\/or Christian groups at colleges and universities nationwide. There are no such actions by these groups toward the Left\u2026ever. They don\u2019t try to shut down their events. They don\u2019t verbally attack them with f-bombs or try to silence them with smoke bombs. And college administrations largely look the other way, as Wheaton College<\/a> leadership did when a handful of staff and student government leaders denounced<\/a> my presentation on \u201cBlack Lives Matter In and Out of the Womb\u201d as \u201coffensive rhetoric\u201d that made \u201cstudents, staff and faculty of color feel unheard, underrepresented and unsafe on campus\u201d. This is the poisonous culture of intolerance that runs rampant in \u201chigher education\u201d. It\u2019s academic terrorism.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Pro-life professor calls out blatant campus bias against pregnancy centers<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cowards use fear and violence. Their aversion to truth renders them incapable of meaningful discourse or finding out their opinion may be\u2014gasp!\u2014wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Planned<\/a>When it comes to abortion, progressives are fatally wrong.<\/p>\n

But they celebrate their ignorance and rejoice when they get to silence the truth. The Radiance Foundation<\/a>, over the past 10 years, has launched over 500 billboards in cities across the country, addressed thousands on college campuses, led Capitol Hill briefings, and published hundreds of articles providing context and clarity to culture-shaping issues. Many have tried to silence us. Many distort and demonize us. Some have threatened us with lethal violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We will continue to work with other pro-life, pro-family, pro-liberty organizations, to boldly speak truth and love to counter a culture of lawlessness and death. We\u2019ll continue to expose Planned Parenthood<\/a>\u2019s corruption, the hypocrisy of the pro-abortion #BlackLivesMatter<\/a> movement, the exploitation by evangelists of victimhood and the basic War on Common Sense.<\/p>\n

Even the pro-abortion NAACP<\/a> tried to sue us for exercising our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights. We called them out, in a scathing article<\/a>, for who and what they\u2019ve become\u2014The National Association for the Abortion of Colored People<\/i>. Apparently, the NAACP couldn\u2019t accept that (accurately) parodying their name is free speech. After two years in federal court, with Alliance Defending Freedom<\/a> protecting our civil rights, we were victorious.<\/p>\n

The attack on prolifers at UT Austin, trying to shut down desperately needed factivism<\/a>, failed. We moved<\/a> to another building and continued to event. There was nearly an hour of Q&A, giving anyone across the ideological spectrum an opportunity to challenge and be challenged in a civil and constructive way.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s how freedom works.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This article was published at The Radiance Foundation<\/a> and is reprinted here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(The Radiance Foundation)\u00a0Liberal activists just hate it when people can speak freely. Those who incessantly accuse others of \u201chate speech\u201d are, themselves, haters of speech. So-called social justice warriors can\u2019t handle it when people have a different and well-informed opinion. So, if you can\u2019t (intellectually) beat \u2018em, smoke \u2018em out. That\u2019s what happened at last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":201297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[2793,7077],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nPro-life event smoke bombed at UT Austin to shut it down. 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