Keep propaganda off OCCC

To the editor:

At present, Americans are faced with many pressing issues, including a health care crisis, the uncertain future of Social Security, under-funding of schools, climate change, a looming recession and the ongoing U.S. military occupation of two foreign states.

These issues should be and are debated vigorously, publicly and frequently on college campuses. What get we at OCCC? We get Baptist snake oil salesmen peddling “freedom from homosexuality.”

These marketers of morality, ostensibly animated by Christian love, seek to help homosexuals “repent,” “heal” and thus avoid damnation.

Sadly, this “ministry” confirms Senator Barack Obama’s observation that some people, when faced with unsettled times, soothe themselves by invoking the name of God and casting stones at those who are different.

I suspect that most of the students, staff and faculty at OCCC would prefer to learn and to work free from such propaganda.

If the purveyors of piety should return to our campus, tell them either to do something worthwhile or to sell their “message” elsewhere.

—John Ehrhardt
OCCC professor