HW 3- Counter Protest at UMD- Nick Nimkoff

***WARNING*** This Article contains language and some content which some may find upsetting or disturbing.

A small gathering of Christian Protestors gathers on the McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland on Sept. 17, 2019. They came to spread their interpretation of the word of the bible via signs and speech, they were met by heavy counter-protest.

Many students started to gather around them with signs of all kinds to act as counterpoints to the protestors outside the McKeldin Library, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Signs varying in tone could be found throughout the crowd of students.

Students starting using sexual orientated objects to mock the protestors, such as using a condom as a balloon to bump around to other students on the McKeldin Mall on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. These acts of defiance did not stop there with condoms being given out, as well as sex toys being swung in the air.

The protestors come from a church in Philidelphia, led by Pastor Aden wh can be seen in a camo baseball cap on the McKeldin Mall at the University of Maryland on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. They had a variety of signs with them, all targeting different ideologies in order to protest them.

The group would often talk back to students holding signs or who were shouting at them in defiance of their messages on the McKeldin Mall on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Through their rhetoric, they claimed that students could be "saved" by the lord.

Student signs often employed humor to poke fun at the group's ideologies on the McKeldin Mall, many of these signs were fun, but some took serious aim with the group's ideas on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Some messages even complaining of the school's Wi-Fi service, eduroam or the simple fallacies in the groups understanding of the bible.

Occasionally students would flash the protestors to counteract their extreme messages on display at the University of Maryland on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Some students were seen removing their shirts or were otherwise scantily-clad as a way to protest the group.

Many ideas co-exist on the University of Maryland campus and that was put on full display on the McKeldin Mall on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Students would display tampons or simply shout out criticisms and complaints to the group, which the group had little voice to combat.