On Oct. 10 of last year, the group Students for Life at Colorado State University were able to bring in a nationally known guest speaker Josh Brahm to talk about bodily rights from a decidedly pro-life perspective.

Certainly not everyone on campus or even among the attendees agreed with the social and political message he was conveying, but such is the goal of a university experience: to broaden student perspectives about the world in which they are soon to enter.

Where such goals run afoul of public policy, however, is when it comes time to decide who will foot the bill.

For the Oct. 10 speech, the group Students for Life were reportedly denied the use of money set aside from student fees to promote events that show diversity. Those grants are chosen by a committee at the school, and for the Brahm event, committee members reportedly told organizers that his speech “doesn’t appear to be entirely unbiased as it addresses the issue of abortion” and that “folks from varying sides of the issue won’t necessarily feel affirmed in attending the event.”

Read more at The Loveland Reporter-Herald.