University of Michigan offers class: "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation"

U-M catalogue calls class "an experiment in the
very process of initiation it hopes to understand."

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- A statewide family values group Monday renewed its criticism of a controversial University of Michigan class -- offered this fall for the first time since 2003 -- again calling on state lawmakers to pressure university officials to drop the course altogether.

The American Family Association of Michigan, in a letter to supporters statewide, condemned U-M for again offering the class, titled "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation."

"Every time U-M offers this ludicrous class, you and I cannot fail to speak out against it," Glenn wrote. "And we must take full advantage every time of the invaluable opportunity to point to (the class) as proof of homosexual activists’ 'political militancy,' to expose their use of our public education system to indoctrinate young people, and to hold accountable those politically correct or timid politicians who stand silently by and do nothing to stop it."

The mailing included pre-addressed postcards to Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mi., the office of U-M President Mary Sue Coleman, and Rep. Jack Hoogendyk, R-Kalamazoo, who in response to the class in 2003, introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would give legislators more oversight and control of university class offerings in Michigan. It also urged taxpayers to contact the Legislature.

"Just because you happen to be a gay man doesn't mean that you don't have to learn how to become one," according to the U-M Fall 2005 course catalogue's description of the class. The course "will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay male identity. ...(The) course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand."

See full course description at:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_detail/0,,8,00.html?termArray=f_05_1560&term=Fall%202005&content=1560ENGLISH317002

Openly homosexual U-M Professor David Halperin, the course instructor, frankly discussed the purpose of such classes in Australian Humanities Review:

“Let there be no mistake about it: lesbian and gay studies, as currently practiced in the U.S., expresses an uncompromising political militancy. Indeed, nothing short of political militancy suffices to establish such courses of study in the first place. ...Lesbian and gay studies scholars have...lobbied…to adopt and enforce anti-discrimination policies, to recognize same-sex couples, to oppose the U.S. military's anti-gay policy, to suspend professional activities in states that criminalize gay sex or limit access to abortion, and to intervene on behalf of human rights for lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men. ...The fact is that lesbian and gay studies simply is the academic wing of the lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender movement.”
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/emuse/Globalqueering/halperin.html

In 2003, Halperin refused Glenn's offer to meet for a face-to-face public debate on the merits of the class. When U-M offered it in 2000 and 2003, the state House of Representatives fell a handful of votes short of cutting the university's funding in response, and AFA-Michigan's protests generated national news coverage, including:

The Washington Times (front page): http://washingtontimes.com/national/20030818-122317-3268r.htm

As Glenn said on CNN Primetime, "Michigan taxpayers don't think they ought to be forced to pay to advance homosexual activists' militant political agenda. Those are the words of the professor, not ours."

This fall, our taxpayer-financed University of Michigan is once again serving as a propaganda forum for homosexual activists’ political agenda…once again offering the outrageous class: “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation."

And once again, infuriating as it is, you and your family are forced to pay for it.

Every time U-M offers this ludicrous class, you and I cannot fail to speak out against it.

And we must take full advantage every time of the invaluable opportunity to point to “How to be Gay” as proof of homosexual activists’ “political militancy,” to expose their use of our public education system to indoctrinate young people, and to hold accountable those politically correct or timid politicians who stand silently by and do nothing to stop it!

You’ll be outraged when you read exactly what your tax dollars are paying for. Enclosed is a copy of the course description from U-M’s Fall 2005 catalogue, which explains the course:

“How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation...will examine the general topic of the role that initiation plays in the formation of gay identity.”

Worse, the U-M catalogue openly states: "(The) course itself will constitute an experiment in the very process of initiation that it hopes to understand." http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_detail/0,,8,00.html?termArray=f_05_1560&term=Fall%202005&content=1560ENGLISH317002

That’s right. U-M officials are forcing your family and other taxpayers to pay for a class whose stated purpose is to “experiment" in the “initiation" of teenage young men into a self-destructive lifestyle of homosexual behavior.

For centuries, homosexual behavior has been a violation of man’s law, and more important, we know as Christians that homosexual behavior violates God’s law as well.

And with good cause, given the severe threat homosexual behavior poses to the health of college-age young men. Oxford University’s International Journal of Epidemiology reports:

“(L)ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less than for all men. If the same pattern of mortality were to continue, we estimate that nearly half of gay and bisexual men currently aged 20 years will not reach their 65th birthday.” http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/3/657?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&searchid=1021138136284_166&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&minscore=50&journalcode=intjepid

Even as this homosexual “initiation” class puts the lives of teenage young men at risk, homosexual activists openly admit that the real motive behind this class is political.

According to U-M’s catalogue, the “How to be Gay” class “seek(s) ultimately to create the basis for a wider acceptance of the plurality of ways in which people determine how to be gay.”

David Halperin, the openly homosexual U-M professor who teaches “How to be Gay,” was even more brazen in an article published by Australian Humanities Review. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/emuse/Globalqueering/halperin.html

Halperin wrote: “Let there be no mistake about it: lesbian and gay studies, as currently practiced in the U.S., expresses an uncompromising political militancy. Indeed, nothing short of political militancy suffices to establish such courses of study in the first place.”

Halperin explained how such courses advance homosexual activists’ political agenda: “Lesbian and gay studies scholars have...lobbied…to adopt and enforce anti-discrimination policies, to recognize same-sex couples, to oppose the U.S. military's anti-gay policy, to suspend professional activities in states that criminalize gay sex or limit access to abortion, and to intervene on behalf of human rights for lesbians, bisexuals, and gay men.”

Halperin boasted: “The fact is that lesbian and gay studies simply is the academic wing of the lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender movement.” Then, mocking our concerns, he concluded, “Queer theory is in the process of becoming a game the whole family can play."

“If I had the magical power to make people gay, I wouldn't be wasting my time at a university. I'd engage in world domination." (Chronicle weblink available to subscribers only)

That’s the radical homosexual activist who’s using your tax dollars right now to teach young men at Ann Arbor “How to be Gay." And he’ll keep right on doing it, unless you and I stop him.

When U-M first offered “How to be Gay,” we hand-delivered a foot-high stack of petitions to the U-M Board of Regents with 15,000 signatures demanding the class be cancelled. U-M regents refused to act. Later, the university president’s office told us the class would not be offered again. But under U-M’s new president, no doubt hoping that you and I are no longer paying attention, they’re again putting students’ lives at risk by teaching teens “How to be Gay.”

We believe that every time U-M officials use your tax dollars to pay for this travesty, and the politicians allow it, they must hear from thousands of taxpayers who believe it’s wrong!

* Please mail the enclosed post cards. Please call or write your legislators today, and please circulate the enclosed petition and return it to AFA-Michigan ASAP.

Contact your state senator: http://www.senate.michigan.gov/SenatorInfo/find-your-senator.htm

* Please mail the largest check you can today to AFA-Michigan. AFA-Michigan is the only group in our state speaking out against this outrageous abuse of your tax dollars. Please help make sure we have the funds needed to turn up the heat.

Thank you for standing with us as we take a firm uncompromising stand to protect college-age young men from being taught a lifestyle of behavior that threatens to cut up to 20 years from their lives…and to stop the outrageous abuse of your tax dollars for such reckless propaganda. Respectfully,

P.S. Unless we act today, we’ll be forced to keep paying for U-M’s outrageous class: “How to be Gay.” Please mail the enclosed postcards, please call your legislators, and please circulate the enclosed petition. And please make sure AFA-Michigan has the resources we need to defend your values, by mailing the largest tax-deductible check you can today!

Contribute to AFA-Michigan online: https://www.campaigncontribution.com/version6/process/info.asp?id=1700&jid=

[ University of Michigan offers class: "How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation" ]

Pointing at the title.. {Eddie Murphy Laugh}

Not only does it solve the question of being born that way, but the following vile statement......"“If I had the magical power to make people gay, I wouldn't be wasting my time at a university. I'd engage in world domination." (Chronicle weblink available to subscribers only) " Puts to rest a doubt that they are indoctrinating (initiating) young people, even children.

Thanks! I have been watching this site for a while and I love it, love it, love it. Most of the time posters are super hilarious, entertaining and intelligent and they have the same viewpoints that I do.

Creepers, I just had a bad case of chicken skin...I just heard Hitlery's voice on Fox. Good O'Rielly's back on. (whew!)

Thanks again, Pretty Face.

I had the pleasure..... er, maybe poor choice of words :-), of FReeping Queen Hillary back when she was still First Lady. She came to Chicago to help Carol Mostly-Fraud (Carol Moseley-Braun) raise money for her Senatorial campaign. This event was going to be held at an area small college campus. We put so much pressure on the campus authorities that they shut down the event.

"Did I leave out anyone?"

I stood and said "I always knew I was different. I really dug funerals as a kid, especially corpse skin. I always got so..... excited and all. I didn't understand that I was just different. At puberty I realized I was a necrophiliac. I have decided to come out. I am tired of people saying I am perverted! I need love and acceptance, too!"

ROFLMAO ! Only an engineer or math or physics major could have pulled this off. I hope your buddies from college still buy you beers for this.
Trust me -- its these sorts of gems that have us bustin' our guts laughin' out loud twenty-five years after the fact.

Only a real "chronic_loser" would come up with such a clever response such as that! :-)

My mother is a Wolverine alumna.

Unfortunately, she is also a koolaid-drinking liberal.

We had another knockdown-dragout when I called to wish a happy anniversary, and she started complaining one of her biggest regrets about my miserable education is that I never went to U of M or some other "good" Ivy League college.

I just have a worthless BS degree in an obscure subject, "mathematics" from some podunk engineering school. My mother is so ashamed of me. I could have gone to U of M and got a degree in Lesbian studies and then she would be proud.

I always wondered if there were conservative soldiers pounding the ground giving the leading liberal figures a hard time. You just don't hear anything from MSM that show that there are conservative groups all around the U. S. that protest liberal figures and their functions...er I mean their "funks-that-should-be-shunned".

Goes to show you that MSM is one-sided, especially when we pressure the liberal side so much that they shut down. It's not a "good story" for their cause.

You know, there are "untold stories" here at home, too.

110 posted on 12/06/2005 11:58:12 AM PST by Zechariah_8_13 (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)

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