‘Same-sex marriage will break down the country’: A delightful evening with Rick Santorum
The epitome of problematic
On November 30th, former Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke at the Statler Auditorium. Needless to say, this sparked much controversy and backlash on our campus.
You could literally feel the tension in the air while waiting in line and sitting in the auditorium for the event. A group of protesters wearing rainbow bandanas symbolizing their support for the LGBTQ+ community, rallied across the street from the Statler, holding signs with anti-hate messages written on them, yelling: “Racist, sexist, anti-gay, Rick Santorum, go away.” In response to this, people in line in the event were yelling: “Everybody has a right to speak,” seemingly defending Santorum’s right to be speaking at Cornell.
Once inside the venue, the tension only began to rise, and then turned into confrontation and even more protest.
Continued At: http://thetab.com/us/cornell/2016/12/01/sex-marriage-will-break-country-delightful-evening-rick-santorum-4423
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Shouting down Rick Santorum from speaking is disrespectful and shameful
Caroline Najjar
Screaming at the Senator will not make him change his ideas and question his beliefs. It is time for people to exhibit their ideas respectfully in order to change his. It is time to stand up and be mature and give people the opportunity to make their claims and idea,s in order for people to learn and people to not be silenced.
We need to make a society where people can get up share there views and then people can argue about them in order for both sides to learn something from it, not for one side to be right and wrong. Let’s make a change and open our ears to ideas we don’t agree with instead, of falling into this Trump culture – where a silent group of people rise up without warning.
http://thetab.com/us/cornell/2016/12/01/santorum-disrespect-4409?utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=recommendednext&utm_medium=youmayalsolike
Quite a lot of action with Santorum in these two stories, I guess he gave a speech at Cornell.
It sounds like there was so much commotion, I'd like to know more about what he said.
