Demonstrators: Photo essay

Demonstrators spark protest

Street preachers come to UNC Asheville's campus to preach messages about morality and religion.

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Edgar Orea, street preacher from Bluefield, WV, yells at onlookers and protesters while preaching on the quad in front of Ramsey Library at UNC Asheville Feb. 12.

Dianna Orea and other members of her religious group Bible Believers, based in Bluefield, WV, demonstrate their messages of morality on the grassy quad in front of Ramsey Library at UNC Asheville Feb. 12. 

Jake Madole, a junior from Hampstead, shakes the hand of Edgar Orea, a self-proclaimed street preacher from Bluefield, WV, as he speaks words of praise to the Protestors. "Sir, thank you for coming. I appreciate it," Madole said. "We need more people like you."

Xenia Zantello, a Junior computer science student from Creedmoor, wears a rainbow flag cape and rainbow face paint as she stands next to Edgar Orea and attempts to reason with the street preacher. “I feel like with a lot of these people you’re never going to get anywhere arguing with them,” Zantello said. “It’s good to make them look really ridiculous and so I think it’s hard for their message to be taken seriously if there’s someone painted all rainbow with a giant flag next to them.”

Student protestors create signs brandished with messages of love and harmony as street preachers demonstrate on the quad.