EDMOND — The University of Central Oklahoma Student Association rescinded its invitation to a well-known Christian apologist to speak on campus following pressure from an LGBTQ group.

Wednesday, Stockton Duvall, UCO's student body president, said student government leaders, in partnership with a student group called Valid World Views, had asked Ken Ham to visit the campus on March 5 to share his perspectives about the science behind Darwinian ideas.

Ham is the founder of the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky; the Ark Encounter in Williamstown, Kentucky, a replica of Noah's Ark as chronicled in Genesis; and chief executive officer of the Christian creation apologetics organization Answers in Genesis.

Duvall, a junior business management major, said members of a group affiliated with the Women's Research Center/BGLTQ+ Student Center at UCO opposed Ham's visit because of his view that marriage is between one man and one woman.