The National Jurist
Students at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law walked out of their classes on March 29, to protest an email sent by a religious student society containing anti-trans messages and what they believe to be a “lacking” response from administrators.
More than 100 students were organized outside the grounds of UNH Law with signs and flags, chanting, “UNH! Stand against hate!”
AhLana Ames, a law student at the school, helped organize and spoke at the event. She said students from different affinity groups — Diversity Coalition, Lambda, Mental Health Alliance, If When How, Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, Black Student Law Association, and more — met in a Zoom call and decided to organize the walkout.
“We’ve been shown over and over again that just talking to admin, being polite, doing everything by the book, doesn’t work anymore,” Ames said. “We wanted to take proactive action to show admin that enough is enough. I had sent an email to the Deans Tuesday evening and was discouraged by the response. So, protest it was.”
An email from the school’s Christian Legal Society to all students sparked the protest. The email invited students, faculty and student groups to join them for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of the victims of the Nashville school shooting. The controversial part of the email referenced the shooter’s gender identification.
“Nashville school shooter Audrey Hale identified as transgender and had a detailed manifesto to attack the Christian academy … By all accounts, this terrorist attack on a Christian school was motivated by anti-Christian hate,” the email states following information on the vigil and images of the victims.
There is no evidence or official account that shows the shooter was motivated by anti-Christian hate.
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