Borough Police issued a warning yesterday afternoon to members of a Philadelphia-area church involved in what police are calling an anti-abortion demonstration at the University.
The demonstration, in part an anti-abortion protest, took place on the west side of Washington Road at McCosh Walk for about five hours before police intervened.
"There were five or six people holding up different posters," said by-stander Archer Batchellor '05. "One of them in particular held up a graphic picture of an aborted fetus.
"We were just walking by, and they were shouting out what they believed," he said.
"They were very aggressive," agreed John Lee '05, another onlooker. According to Lee, the demonstrators said threatening things about Muslims and gays and carried signs denouncing homosexuality, pornography and MTV.
"The principal [person] involved was Craig S. White of the Philadelphia Gospel Outreach Center," said Capt. Anthony Federico of Princeton Borough Police.
White, known on campus as Brother Stephen, was preaching on the sidewalk outside Marx Hall in what he described on his website as an evangelistic outreach.
Throughout the afternoon, the number of onlookers swelled from less than a dozen, according to one eyewitness, to 50, the official number cited in the police report.
"There was a fairly large crowd," Lee said. "People were just sitting there and listening."
"There were people coming up campus just to make conflict with them and to get in their face a little bit," Batchellor noted. "A lot of people were definitely getting stirred up."
According to Federico, ten protesters were part of the demonstration, including White. Four held up signs denouncing abortion, four others handed out anti-abortion literature to passers-by, and White and another man preached.
"There was a little girl handing out brochures," said Lee. "I was really turned off by their approach."
"I don't know what they're trying to accomplish," Batchellor added. "I think they were trying to get a controversy going, and they did."
"The demonstrators did not have a permit for a demonstration or a parade," Federico said. "They were warned that they need a permit from the [Borough] clerk to hold a parade or a march.
"In the future, they have to keep the sidewalk clear," he said.
White has preached on campus several times in past years. This was the first time that his demonstration focused on a specific issue and included posters and other demonstrators.
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