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Wednesday, June 2. 2010
Protesters fight church’s view!
By Jaime Dunkle *
Associate News Editor
Contributed by Ryan Blanchard
Chris Morrow protests the Westboro Baptists outside the New
Hope Community Church on Sunday, May 30. Morrow’s counter
protest satires the often theatrical demonstrations of WBC.
The Westboro Baptist Church
takes advantage of free speech, claim
ing that God hates Jews, America,
homosexuals and female preach
ers. WBC picketed synagogues and
churches in the Portland Metro area
this weekend.
The WBC protested against New
Hope Community Church in Happy
Valley on Sunday, May 30. WBC
was opposing New Hope’s utiliza
tion of female preachers. Protesters
left after only 30 minutes of hold
ing signs and marching around the
church parking lot and down Stevens
Road.
WBC will return to Portland
Thursday, June 3 to protest Grant
High School for having a gay sup
port group. The WBC will be present
from 7:35 a.m. until 8:05 aan.
Tammy Owen is an administra
tor at the New Hope Community
Church. WBC sent a fax to New
Hope, notifying the church of the
protest.
The Sunday protest was non
violent. People peacefully rotated
around the turnabout outside of the
church for exactly 30 minutes.
“They held up their signs and
walked around, protesting what they
were for and against,” Owen said.
“There were about seven to 10 of
them.”
New Hope Community Church
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“If you go online and look at any of the
chemicals that they are using on the lawns,
how to spray them and what to wear, I mean
you should be wearing a hazmat suit to spray
that shit,” said Andersen.
Andersen is currently an art professor but
has had his fair share of work experience
with some of the chemicals CCC uses on
its lawns. Working as an entomologist for a
company called Environmental Labs side-
by-side with toxicologists in the early ‘80s,
Andersen is well educated in the field of
chemicals and the side effects they carry with
them, both short and long term.
Andersen has, over the years of work
ing with such chemicals, become what is
called “chemically sensitive,” which makes
him more susceptible to illness when such
herbicides are sprayed or used around him.
Andersen’s sensitivity, on the other hand,
does not make his concern less important.
Andersen explained that even though he may
get sick more often, the damages caused by
spraying these chemicals around public areas
are felt everywhere, both environmentally
and personally.
“Weasfaculty,students andstaffarewalking
around campus in this haze of invisible, odor
less chemicals, and then we get sick or become
allergic and the doctor said ‘Oh, it’s just aller
gies,”’Andersen said.
Andersen also voiced his concern with
the long term effects of the chemicals used to
kill off the weeds and bugs on campus.
“What it’s going to do to us in the long
run is pretty scary and because in most of
those chemicals the vehicle for them is
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a chemical that is an endocrine disrupter,
which totally screws with a whole bunch of
issues. One of the symptoms of chemical
exposure is learning disabilities in young
kids,” Andersen explained.
Department Chair of Horticulture,
Elizabeth Howley, showed concern that
some people might get sick from use of
chemical sprays for weeds around campus.
Howley, on the other hand, was unaware of
the school doing much spraying.
“I don’t think much of anything is being
sprayed at all,” said Howley.
This past Memorial Day weekend, cam
pus services sprayed the grounds around
the school with a weed killer called Trimec
Classic Broadleaf Herbicide, according to
Dean of Campus Services, Bob Cochran.
According to the specimen label for
Trimec Classic, it’s a chemical that is
extremely corrosive, causes irreversible eye
damage and must be sprayed wearing spe
cial chemical resistant clothing covering all
areas of skin. The specimen label also men
tions that the chemical is very dangerous to
aquatic invertebrates and poses a threat to
other people and animals if sprayed in or
near waterways where runoff may occur.
Earl Tracy, a representative of pbi/Gordan
Corporati on, the company that makes Trim ec
Classic, said that if the chemical is used prop
erly, it has no harmfill affects.
“There is really no concerns with run
off because the plant absorbs the chemical
within six to eight hours,” said Tracy.
For more information on Trimec Classic,
you can look at the Label information at
www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/TrimecClassic-
SL.pdf.
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has four female preachers. The
women at New Hope have a unique
talent when it comes to preaching,
according to Owen.
Chris Morrow is a gay rights
activist from Clackamas County. He
opposes WBC’s viewpoints.
“I think the Westboro Baptist
Church is a bunch of retarded douche
bags,” Morrow said. “On par with
David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.”
M orro w was a part of the counter
protest at New Hope. He was there to
express his views on the similarities
between racism and homophobia.
“The violence perpetrated against
homosexuals is no less violent than,
or [no less] spawned by personal
hatred, than the violence perpetrated
against black people in the 50s,”
Morrow said.
People interpret the Bible in many
different ways. Morrow dissected dif
ferent Bible verses condoning abuse
against woman and slavery.
“There are several verses in the
Bible that touch on the topic of slav
ery, and there are some Bible verses
which state that if a man rapes a
woman, he can pay the father off 50
sheckles, and then he has to marry
that woman and they can never
divorce,” Morrow said.
Morrow recommends some lit
erary sources that analyze biblical
verses.
“I’m an avid reader of EvilBible.
com, ‘The Brick Testament’ and ‘The
Skeptics Annotated Bible,”’ Morrow
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