Chalkings

Ursinus can’t allow anything to be written on the sidewalks of our campus, there has to be a set of guidelines that we must all follow. Something that Ursinus should not allow is hate speech. There should be no writings that attack or single out someone or their views. There should be no threatening messages allowed, or messages that are offensive to groups or individuals. There should be no chalkings like the one that we talked about in class that stated that “God hates fags.” That statements is one that could clearly been seen as offensive and hateful. However, people should be allowed to voice their feelings and opinions. As long as their opinions are not hateful in any way than it should be allowed to be written. The chalking that quoted the bible verse from Leviticus would then be acceptable. It is from a text and in no way does it have any hate message in it, and the writer was still able to voice his or her opinion without saying anything that could be seen as offensive. Even if it is an opinion that is controversial, people are still entitled to their right to free speech. There are many things that the majority of people won’t agree with that others can still see as truth. Like when people write it is ok to be gay. Obviously not everyone is going to agree with this, but it should still be allowed to be written despite the controversy behind it because it is still not hateful nor offensive.