Word: kinkos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kinko's is a private firm. In any other situation, AALARM would have agreed that it does not have to print what it doesn't want to. There was no abridgement of anyone's First Amendment liberties here...
JUDGING from last week's controversy over the refusal of an employee of Kinko's Copies to print a flyer from the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) opposing University Health Services (UHS) funding for abortion, it would be easy to conclude that the world had been turned upside down...
...only are both groups being hypocritical, both are wrong. Kinko's didn't have a legal obligation to publish the flyer, but it should have published it anyway...
...letter to The Crimson, Defeat Homophobia writes that the employee was well within his rights to refuse "to aid AALARM in its pursuit of free speech" and that his action was one of conscience. Would Defeat Homophobia's position be the same if a Kinko's employee had refused to copy one of their posters? What if he had said, "I'm morally opposed to homosexuality. I have a deep problem with an organization that explictly advocates acts I deem sinful...
Just because the decisions of two Kinko's employees became ad hoc company policy does not make their action worthy of public censure. That the poster was anti-abortion and not anti-gay is irrelevant. One would be hard pressed to convince someone who is Black to print an anti-Catholic poster at the Ku Klux Klan's behest...