[Vision2020] Students Trade Bibles for Porn

[Tom Hansen]

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Students Trade Bibles for Porn 
 
SAN ANTONIO - A group of atheists at the University of Texas at San Antonio
is putting a novel twist on the toys-for-guns programs run by many urban
police departments. But instead of toys, they are handing out porn in
exchange for bibles. 

"We consider the bible to be a very negative force in the history of the
world," student Ryan Walker said. Walker is part of a student group that
calls itself the Atheist Agenda. 

Club members this week posted fliers promoting what they call the "Smut for
Smut" campaign then set up a table in the student union to collect religious
materials and pass out adult magazines such as Black Label and Playboy. 

The group is not officially sanctioned by the university and has raised the
ire of several religious organizations on campus. 

"In my opinion, there are no atheists. There are fools," Pastor Rick Hawkens
of UTSA's Family Praise Center said. "So, that would be foolish propaganda.
I don't know one believer that would take his Bible and turn it in for
pornography." 

Hawkens obviously didn't stop by the Atheist Agenda table, where several
students had dropped off copies of the good book and walked away with skin
mags. 

Athiest Agenda isn't the first student group to explore the idea of
introducing porn to former bible toters. Members say they got the idea from
students in Austin who ran a similar pro-porn drive. 

Walker added that members thought it sounded like a creative way to exercise
their freedom of speech.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)