Video: Catholic Students Attacked While Peacefully Protesting Gay Marriage at Johns Hopkins
No matter how you feel about the issue of gay marriage, no one deserves to be treated the way these students were.
The price of free speech is having to sometimes hear things you don’t agree with.
Jennifer Kabbany of the College Fix has more.
VIDEO: Man attacks students’ traditional marriage rally at Johns Hopkins Univ.
A small, peaceful rally in support of traditional marriage by Catholic students at Johns Hopkins University turned violent after an angry onlooker aggressively got in the young students’ faces and broke one of their cameras, a video of the incident published Thursday shows.
The Oct. 23 rally was hosted by TFP Student Action, a conservative student Catholic advocacy group, as part of its “street campaign,” in which its members travel to different locations to demonstrate in support of traditional marriage with signs such as “God’s marriage =’s 1 man & 1 woman” and “honk for traditional marriage.”
But the recent demonstration in front of Johns Hopkins University turned ugly when an unnamed assailant pushed a young volunteer then “turned against TFP member Matthew Miller, 20, and started throwing punches at his video camera,” the group reports on its website, citing its video.
“As a result of the attack, the camera was severely damaged and its external microphone completely destroyed,” the group adds.
In the two-minute video, the man – whose face was blurred in the edited video – says “we are going to beat the living shit out of you” as a student says “insults are not arguments, sir.”
Then the man gets physical as students in the background begin to repeatedly chant “aggressor” and one student tells him: “Step away, step away, sir. We’re here totally peacefully,” the video shows.
“I’m not,” the man replied.
John Ritchie, director of TFP Student Action, said the police are still investigating the incident.
VIDEO: Man attacks students’ traditional marriage rally at Johns Hopkins Univ. (The College Fix)
Comments
The ever-tolerant “Gaystapo” strikes again.
Whenever I see video’s like this, I just cringe. What virtue is there in “Peacefully Demonstrating” when your opponent starts acting thuggish? There is VIDEO evidence of an attack taking place, so where is the video evidence of these protesters putting on their “big boy” pants and knocking the guy on his ass?
I’m sick and tired of Conservatives acting like sissies, and then loudly proclaiming how they’re being peaceful. They’re not being peaceful, they’re acting cowardly – and don’t have the courage to support their own expressed views. They came out to “protest” just as long as they didn’t have to spill any of their own precious blood or go to jail. Protests by Precious Snowflakes….IS IT ANY WONDER THAT THE LIBERALS LAUGH?
“Man-Up”, “Grow Some Balls”, whatever euphemism you want to use – these young men are an embarrassment to American values, strength and courage. I’m not saying they need to chop the thugs head off – but they could at the LEAST actively defend themselves and stand their ground instead of backpedaling and whining how they were peacefully demonstrating and “don’t touch the camera”. What’s the worse that will happen, a bloody nose, a handful of teeth, a few days in jail & a fine? So what? Where is the honor in getting treated like a whiny child – which they were acting like.
You want to know why the left grows, because of supporters like these insults to American manhood! /rant