A Colorado State University freshman, 19-year-old Blake Jones, says he was spat on and nearly assaulted after he quietly chalked Bible verses on the Lory Student Center Plaza during a campus protest on November 19, 2025. Jones, a Catholic and member of the Turning Point USA chapter on campus, told reporters he was simply trying to share his faith and ask questions about the left-wing demonstration when confrontation turned violent. This is not a small campus squabble — it is a chilling example of how public universities are allowing Christian students to be targeted for peacefully expressing their beliefs.
The protest that day included Students for Justice in Palestine, the Young Democratic Socialists of America and other leftist groups, and witnesses reported that a large chalked cross and religious messages were defaced into a transgender depiction of Jesus and pro-abortion slogans. Conservative students say organizers used the event to overwrite messages like “abortion is murder” and “God loves you,” flipping them into hostile, mocking statements as campus authorities looked on. When a university plaza becomes a stage for desecration and mockery while conservative and faith-based speech is punished with spit and threats, something has gone dangerously wrong at our institutions of higher learning.
Jones says he was wearing a red MAGA hat when two students confronted him, screamed profanity, raised their fists and then spit on him as he knelt to chalk; he and his peers reported that police took roughly 25 minutes to arrive and later were told several nearby security cameras were not functioning. Those are not minor procedural failures — they are failures to protect students and uphold basic standards of safety and free expression. When campus surveillance conveniently “malfunctions” during incidents that politically inconvenience the left, conservative students have every reason to suspect bias and cover-up.
After reporting the spitting and speaking with authorities, Jones returned to finish chalking Bible verses and prayed alongside fellow students over the vandalized cross, refusing to be intimidated into silence. That resolve should be a lesson to every American who values faith, free speech and the peaceful exchange of ideas: back down, and the left wins by intimidation; stand firm, and you expose their hypocrisy. These young Americans showed courage under pressure while many administrators hide behind platitudes about diversity and inclusion.
Colorado State University police say an active investigation is underway, but statements from students and the apparent delay in accountability underscore a larger pattern on campuses nationwide where conservative and Christian voices are treated as acceptable targets. Universities that claim to champion free expression must start meaning it in practice — that means protecting all students equally, disciplining attackers regardless of ideology, and maintaining honest security systems instead of convenient excuses. Parents, alumni, and lawmakers need to demand transparency and consequences now, not after another outrage fades from the headlines.
Blake Jones did the right thing by refusing to cower and by continuing to share his faith in the face of hostility, and patriotic Americans should stand with him and every student who is bullied for their beliefs. This is about more than one chalked verse — it is about whether America’s institutions will continue to tolerate hatred toward religion and conservative thought, or whether we will insist on basic decency and law and order on every campus. If we care about free speech, faith, and the future of this country, we will demand that colleges stop turning into enclaves of left-wing intolerance and start protecting the quiet courage of students like Jones.
