A Christian student government president in California faces recall for allowing a pro-life display on campus.
Sacramento City College recently celebrated Constitution Day, an annual celebration of the U.S. Constitution and free speech. The Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), a pro-life organization, requested and was granted a display space at the event. Steve Macias, 19-year-old Associated Student Government president, and Monica Guzman, student affairs commissioner, now risk losing their positions for refusing to kick the pro-life group off campus. Macias explains the GAP had given a proposal a week prior to being granted the space. The governing body voted unanimously to allow GAP to have a presence on campus. Two days into the event, several pro-abortion groups began protesting the GAP display. That same day, the administration pulled Macias out of class and told him to force GAP to remove its display and leave campus. Macias refused, insisting that GAP had a right to have a presence on campus. Both Macias and Guzman now face a recall led by several atheist and pro-abortion groups. It is a process in which both could lose their positions of leadership. “They’re really trying to chill free speech on this campus,” says John Ficker, spokesman for the Sanctity of Life Network. “They said Steve was wrong because he didn’t invite the opposing side, but the bottom line is they didn’t want a pro-life display on campus, and so they tried to remove this young man, just 19-years-old, student body president and he stood his ground.” The results of the recall have not yet been released.
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