A Monte Vista, Colo., father is upset over the use of the world "vagina" on a recent Adams State College theater marquee and wants the Alamosa City Council to reconsider its city sign ordinance.

The sign advertised a show called "The Vagina Monologues" that played at the college recently.

Audie Joe Zinn told the Alamosa Valley Courier that he feels the college overstepped its bounds.

Zinn said his 9-year-old daughter saw the sign and asked him what it meant.

He said he understands First Amendment rights, but the sign raises a different issue.

"My objection is the fact I feel our children's rights are being violated by public display of obscenity," Zinn told the Courier. "I have a choice where I send my daughter to college. I have a choice what she sees on TV ... I can turn the TV off, disconnect the cable ... But when we are driving to go shopping somewhere and she sees it on a public street, I don't have control over that."

He told the City Council that the sign was inappropriately displayed, visible from where children could see it.

"I have a choice where I send my daughter to college. I have a choice what she sees on TV ... I can turn the TV off, disconnect the cable ... But when we are driving to go shopping somewhere and she sees it on a public street, I don't have control over that," said Zinn.

Zinn wants the City Council to write an ordinance that would restrict the verbiage of signs in Alamosa. The council tabled the request.