Campus Reform
Berkeley seek Christmas ban on Salvation Army bellringers
The student government at the University of California-Berkeley (CAL) passed a resolution last month that would ban Salvation Army bell ringers and their iconic red kettles from campus this Christmas because of the Christian organization’s alleged bias against homosexuality. …
“Salvation Army church services, including charity services, are available only to people ‘who accept and abide by the Salvation Army’s doctrine and discipline,’ which excludes homosexuality,” reads the bill, SB 176.
In the resolution, the student body also demands school administrators revoke the Salvation Army’s permit, which currently allows them to collect donations on the Berkeley campus.
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Tolerance.
Akzed on December 6, 2012 at 4:47 PM
of “approved” people only.
yhxqqsn on December 6, 2012 at 4:50 PM
I see they care about all the people the Salvation Army helps.
Karma is coming, don’t know when but when it does these sick liberals won’t know what hit them. They’ll be crying like the little wussies they are.
darwin on December 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Lefties have to lie.
rbj on December 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Here’s a radical idea for the oh-so-tolerant leftist radicals at Berserkely:
If you disapprove of the Salvation Army’s beliefs and policies don’t donate to them.
They are only on campus because people voluntarily put money in their kettles. If no one makes donations on campus they will leave of their own accord without being forced.
Of course, I’m being facetious since force is the only means of human interaction that leftists are able to comprehend.
single stack on December 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM
Good little totalitarians.
antipc on December 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM
So can the ring their bells the rest of the year?
Cindy Munford on December 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM
I hope that I am sufficiently cushioned to enjoy this coming event rather than be a victim of it.
Cindy Munford on December 6, 2012 at 4:56 PM
True. They should read a little history and realize who was first up against the wall. Those that make the utopia happen seldom live long enough to enjoy it. Which is sad because they don’t really suffer from the fruits of their labors.
Frank Enstine on December 6, 2012 at 4:58 PM
Lesson?
The left never sleeps.
Neither should we.
blatantblue on December 6, 2012 at 5:00 PM
Imagine their disappointment when they find out about Hamas….. It’ll be like learning that there is no Santa Claus.
rw on December 6, 2012 at 5:03 PM
Sure they do. With everything including the kitchen sink.
CurtZHP on December 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM
My son’s Boy Scout troop is doing their time on the bell this weekend.
Me thinks The Salvation Army helps all those those little punks don’t.
Jabberwock on December 6, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Wow, how edgy, Berkeley! Not.
Every knee shall bow, including yours.
Christien on December 6, 2012 at 5:09 PM
If they were collecting for the Palestinians, everything would be okay.
hepcat on December 6, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Apparently it is only the left that can properly exclude or ban any certain group.
NeoKong on December 6, 2012 at 5:10 PM
Well will all these repulsive worms take up the funds the SA would be getting to help those ‘bellringers’? I would not think those selfish horrible people would give a dollar to those the SA helps? Bet the music they listen to makes a thousand time more racket than the bellringer do?
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letget on December 6, 2012 at 5:12 PM
Progressives: Doing the most bad.
locomotivebreath1901 on December 6, 2012 at 5:14 PM
who needs the salvation army. the poor have obama now.
renalin on December 6, 2012 at 5:17 PM
SMOD…… hurry, before it’s too late.
a capella on December 6, 2012 at 5:18 PM
And Good Lt’s.
(runs)
22044 on December 6, 2012 at 5:21 PM
Yeah, because the Salvation Army is the only national charity / aid organization left that gets a good chunk of the money they collect to people in need, rather than most of it wasted on big executive salaries and expensive offices.
Can’t be having that.
LegendHasIt on December 6, 2012 at 5:22 PM
LOL! Yep. His, too, though he doesn’t have to like it.
Christien on December 6, 2012 at 5:27 PM
Ever since seeing the aid and comfort given to the returning soldiers of WWII, the Sally Army is the only religious charity worth giving my money to. In Australia, they are still the best at giving aid and comfort – regardless of personality.
OldEnglish on December 6, 2012 at 5:30 PM
This to me is representative of the danger in mainstreaming homosexuality by allowing gay marriage. As soon as that is accomplished then any opposition to homosexuality in the public sphere will be deemed bigoted and Christian organizations will be increasingly banished from the public space as regressive haters.
I have no opposition to civil unions to provide gay couples with rights, I do have a problem with mainstreaming homosexuality which will then transform the normal, moral position that has existed for eons into the extreme position.
Charlemagne on December 6, 2012 at 5:54 PM
Eff those prissy-sissy liberals. Come yell at my GF doing bellringing, spoiled little turds, you’ll limp away with my shoeprint on your a$$.
MelonCollie on December 6, 2012 at 6:22 PM
This is precisely what we will be facing. It is not enough now nor will it ever be enough for them to mince into a courtroom and walk out with official approval of their play-pretend marriage.
They want to shut us up by judicial fiat because we tell the truth. That they’re NOT equal either to heterosexual couples, nor to interracial couples. That no matter how much they squall, they’re nothing more than perverts with a cultural mandate for their STD-spreading practices.
MelonCollie on December 6, 2012 at 6:25 PM
People used to flee other countries to escape these kinds of people. I really hate what this country has become. If there were somewhere else in the world like the old America, I’d be planning my move right now. L I B
The Count on December 6, 2012 at 6:37 PM
Heh.
I tend to think people like him will bow because they will see Jesus in all his glory.
And then, it hits them … .
Either way, they will bow.
davidk on December 6, 2012 at 6:49 PM
Don’t forget to click your heels.
OldEnglish on December 6, 2012 at 6:51 PM
We’ll all be wearing sandals.
davidk on December 6, 2012 at 7:16 PM
Oz would be a decent place to go Galt, if you don’t mind living in a land where about half of everything is flat-out impossible by the laws of science. And they have the city under an invisibility shield in the middle of a desert; that’s about as isolated as you can get these days.
MelonCollie on December 6, 2012 at 9:32 PM