It’s rare that a protest can inspire unity, but the close-minded message delivered by a father-daughter tandem on campus Thursday did just that.

Students were seemingly in agreement that the anti-LGBT sentiments espoused by two visitors, and disguised as a message of Christianity, were not only hateful, but in a vein that was, in fact, contradictory to the tolerant tenets of Christianity.

Those who chose to respond to the Defrios’s speech should be commended on two points: one, that they chose to respond at all. Instead of idly walking on to class or their dorms, students stopped and made their feelings known. Two, they did so peacefully, as police looked on, a considerable improvement from last March’s anti-war rally that ended disastrously on Vestal Parkway.

In a time where religion is often misconstrued and, in some cases, abused, college campuses need to be a place of tolerance. The InterVarsity Christian Fellowship did its best to set the record straight on campus Friday, with its own protest, a protest in response to a protest, if you will.

Two misled, loud individuals shouldn’t be able to distort a positive message and misrepresent an entire group. Thankfully, the BU community ensured that didn’t happen.