(sigh) So today, as every year, these two antagonists traveled to
The Evergreen State College. And, as every year, they drew a huge crowd of screaming, frothing students.
You see, here at TESC, if you threw a beach ball into a crowd of students, it would be caught by a gay man, a lesbian, a liberal, or a hippie. That, with very little exception, is the kind of person who comes to this school. (And I have no problem with that. ;)
However, these bible thumpers find this concentration of "evil" to be simply too perfect. They come every year, each of them with huge signs. Bible Jim's is simple. It talks about how Jesus will save us sinners from hell. Preacher Bob's sign is huge, easily reaching ten feet into the air from the man's 6 something frame. It's also very wide, roughly 5 feet, I would hazard to guess. Its contents are roughly the following:
"You Sicken Me. All of you, you dykes, fags, aethiests, etc, etc, etc, are going to hell."
So, obviously, this does not sit well with the student population here at Evergreen. What the students fail to realize however is that
- This is a state school. They have as much right to stand in Red Square and spout their beliefs as the Discordians and SubGeni.
- Much like the giant amok advertising signs from the Simpsons Holloween special, if they paid no attention to the crazy people, they would not come back here.
But, of course, that kind of rational thinking is beyond most people. So every year Bible Jim and Preacher Bob return. And every year
I feel sick.