While religion has been hotly debated among various groups in the United States over the past couple of decades, one group has taken things way too far on a college campus in Texas where their latest stunt has far surpassed a matter of intelligent debate, crossing the line into obscenity and exploitation by conducting a swap program distributing pornography in exchange for Bibles or any other religious text in their all out assault on faith in this nation.

The smut campaign (or Smut for Smut as they have called it) is being conducted by the militantly anti-religious front group called the Atheist Agenda. The public display, on a college campus no less, has caused outrage among many of the students and members of the community and rightly so; this outrage is duly justified as the campaign's goal is solely to cause offense to Jews, Christians, Muslims, Hindus and other religious practitioners by exploiting and degrading women all while the administration stays silent, or even defends it.

Why is the college administration allowing a hate group to conduct such an offensive and obscene campaign right out on the open on their campus? What's next, public lynchings and witch trials? Are our educational institutions not supposed to be fostering an atmosphere of tolerance for one another and respect for the various belief systems of different peoples?

Hiding behind the guise of free speech, which has been taken too far in this country as of late, ignorant and hateful displays such as this are causing wide spread harm worse than the Klan or Neo-Nazis ever have. Not only are they creating a hostile environment for students on campus but at a time when experts from nearly every walk of life have been warning of the dangerous harm caused by pornography which has been labeled as the new crack and one of the biggest dangers to women leading to misogyny, pedophilia, domestic violence, rape, and other crimes against women and girls as well as emotional problems, addiction, dysfunctional families, divorce, and sexual dysfunctions. In testimony before congress in 2004, Mary Anne Layden who is from the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Cognitive Therapy's program for Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology gave detailed testimony on this poison that is plaguing our nation stating that pornography is the "most concerning thing to psychological health...existing today."

The link between pornography and violence against women is undeniable and the fact that a university is allowing this hate group to not only engage in their campaign to offend practitioners of every faith but are degrading and demeaning women to do it is absolutely appalling and unacceptable. And in a state with such high rates of crimes against women, you would think they should know better. It is time that we say enough and stop catering to hate groups spreading their poison and start standing up for women and children and realize that we can never be truly free as long as hate groups like this are “free” to harm others.