Posted on 12/23/2005 8:52:16 AM PST by kindred
CONTACT: Gary Glenn 989-835-7978 Professor David Halperin 734-647-5884
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, brings back “How to be Gay: Male Homosexuality & Initiation”
family group renews criticism of tax-funded college class “How to be Gay”
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 here:
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.”
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:
Vote Democrat, for starters.
Will there be a "How To NAMBLA" next????
"My mother made me a homosexual"
"OH lucky you! Can she make one for me?"
-Eric
Getting an "A" in this class will mean all your problems are behind you...
How would you like to be an applicant for that one? "Prove to us that you are gay."
80% of people will attend this class because they are genuinely interested in the subject matter...the rest will be sucked into it.
How to be Gay.....AKA Brokeback Mountain........
Geology used to be the easy class when you wanted a grade. Can you just imagine the final for this one?
Homework really sux.
Is this a required course, or can you just blow it off?.........
Course should be titled "How to be a gay activist."
"My Name is (professor) Michael Vocino and I Like Dick"
Your tax dollars at work.
The final is an oral exam...
From "40 year old Virgin" - "You know how I know you're gay?"
Multiple choice? or assay?........
Big deal. No one is forced to take the class. I'm sure there are dozens of classes on Christian Theology that students can take if they want to. Actually, here, I found some:
RELIGION 122 / ACABS 122. Introduction to the New Testament.
RELIGION 280 / ACABS 221. Jesus and the Gospels.
RELIGION 312. Church and American Society.
RELIGION 481 / ENGLISH 401. The English Bible: Its Literary Aspects and Influences, I.
RELIGION 286 / HISTORY 286. A History of Eastern Christianity from the 4th to the 18th Century.
RELIGION 350 / ACABS 323. Christianity after the New Testament: The First Six Centuries.
No one is going to take this dopey class who doesn't want to, and those that want to are already lost causes. Don't lose sleep over it. They offered wine tasting for credit at my university. There's always going to be some idiotic classes at huge state universities.
http://www.fjernuv.dk/elev/2002/HH1e/Janus%20B%20Christensen/Anders_til_gay_parade.jpg
Caution: graphic Gayness at link!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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