I get hopeful about the future, then something has to come along and spoil it. One of the headlines on the State News front page today is "Gay Course at U-M Scrutinized by Group." Apparently some boneheads in Midland think that a class called "How to be gay: Homosexuality and Initiation" is teaching students to be gay. Gary Glenn, president of the American Family Association, says "If you have to take a class to learn how to be gay, it seems to be an admittance that homosexuality is a learned activity and a matter of particular choice." He goes on to carp about the state budget being low and we really can't afford to teach people to be gay. The professor who teaches the class says his class is more about how gays and lesbians have carved out a place for themselves in society. The U-M board has stuck up for the professor, saying that this class is no different from taking sociology or math. The AFA, however, has taken it up with the state House of Representatives. The first bill of theirs that went through came scarily close to being ratified. (Said bill would have cut the university budget 10 percent unless they stopped teaching "courses that promoted homosexual behavior.") AFA is working on a new petition drive now.
I'm sorry, but I can't let you shove my friends back in the closet. At least not without a fight. Besides, if you really want something to protest Mr. Glenn, how about your "benevolent" neighbor, Dow Corning? Protest the fact that they aren't subject to the general tightening of security that everybody else has had to go through, because Dow threw a bunch of money at the government. Protest the fact that if someone were to drive a truck into Chemical Tank #xxxx, the only thing the residents of mid-Michigan could do is bend over and kiss themselves goodbye.
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