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Legal religious groups have every right to promote to college students. The University has a responsibility to ensure factual, not hate-infested, information is available so students can make up their own minds.

Imagine this description of a religious group being passed around today's college campuses "WATCH OUT FOR THIS GROUP! They force all the women to wear only white, gray or black, cover their heads at all times in public, cover their bodies from neck to ankle, force the women to obey their controlling husbands and the women are not allowed to vote."

That's a good description of the Puritans - who came to the US to freely worship as they saw fit.

College students might need to be educated on how to say politely and firmly "no - thanks anyway". They'll be more prepared not just for unwanted religious recruitment, but also for a persistent member of the opposite sex and for buying a used car.

: -- Nancy O'Meara, Treasurer, Foundation for Religious Freedom (posted 9/2, 9:35 a.m., E.D.T.)

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