For three days, members of Atheist Agenda gave students pornographic magazines in exchange for any religious texts as part of their “Smut for Smut” campaign. Leaders of the atheist group argue that religious books contain violence, spark religious wars, advocate for the mistreatment of women and are therefore no better than pornography.
“It’s a First Amendment right,” said Bradley Lewis, 18, who plans to join the Atheist Agenda, according to the San Antonio Express-News. “If religious groups can put out missionaries and go knock on my door and wake me up at 7 am on a Saturday morning, I can put a table outside of the college.”

As expected, the group’s action offended Christians on campus who gathered to protest the event. In the afternoon a Christian student debated the Atheist Agenda president, Carlos Morales.

The event attracted hundreds of students to the university’s main plaza on the first day, some of whom were seen carrying signs with messages such as, “Jesus Saves” and “Jesus loves the Atheist Agenda”. Others sang hymns, according to the UTSA student newspaper The Paisano.

Robin Lorkovic, 18, who held the sign, ‘God Loves You! Keep your Bible and learn from it!’ said, “I don’t really feel like that is appropriate at all,” according to the Express-News. “I am a Christian, I believe in God’s love and I am here to stand my ground and stand up for what I believe in.”

Student Monica Cornado said in a CBS/AP report that it was offensive to compare pornography to “the Word of God.” University officials admitted that the atheist event was controversial and the majority of students did not agree with it. But they also said the event was legal and students had the right to freedom of speech and assembly.  “They (Atheist Agenda) admitted it’s a publicity stunt,” said Michelle Brossart, a UTSA student who was offended by the event, to The Paisano. “They want to evoke crazy emotions out of people because they want to make their agenda known. But only very, very few people are actually gaining anything from this.”

Atheist Agenda began the “Smut for Smut” campaign at UTSA in 2005. The first campaign gained major media attention across the nation. Subsequent events have also attracted national coverage, but to a lesser extent.

Meanwhile, California-based Kiwi evangelist Ray Comfort is encouraging on-campus Christians to take advantage of the free speech rights, and put up a large poster, saying: “If you are thinking of trading your Bible for porn, read it first. Jesus said ‘Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.’” “If you know of any Christians on Campus, tell them we will design a poster for them free of charge, and email it to them, pronto,” said Mr Comfort on his blog.
“We will also freely supply Bibles for those who want to trade in their porn. It would be good to have a nice big shredding machine by the table of Bibles. They can contact me through this blog. ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) 
Sources: Ethan Cole (The Christian Post), Ray Comfort’s blog, CBS News.