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Special Class Protections for Self-Alleged Gays: A Question of "Orientation" and Consequences

A public policy analysis
by Tony Marco

Copyright Tony Marco, 1991-1994, all rights reserved


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Impact On Colleges, Universities, Public Schools and Private Associations

Right now, college and university students throughout the United States are under extraordinary pressure from gays and "politically correct" pro-"gay rights" educators and administrators to accept Statewide special class protection for "gayness." On August 30, 1991, the Office of Student Activities of the Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD), largest campus in Colorado's State University/College system with 37,000+ students, issued a memorandum to all 90 campus clubs, reading in part:

"All students who wish to participate in club events must be allowed to do so regardless of age, race, color, creed or sexual orientation. Clubs which are found to have discriminated against students on these grounds will have their recognition status revoked. What that means is clubs will loose [sic] all privileges associated with club recognition including:
* Club Funding
* Club Travel
* Student Union Room Reservations
* Club Office Space
... All clubs will now be required to have the following statement in their club constitution:

Membership to this organization shall be open to all students regardless of age, race, color, creed, gender or sexual orientation."
According to Percy Morehouse, Vice President of MSCD in charge of Equal Opportunity (as reported by on-campus religious club leader Rick Drebenstedt), gay extremists are pressuring the Regents and Trustees Board in the State University/College system to demand that all Offices of Student Activities issue such edicts, to apply to all clubs, including religious clubs which may conscientiously oppose the gay extremist agenda.

Minority author Dinesh D'Souza's recently published book, Illiberal Education, (The Free Press, New York, NY, 1991) contains more evidence of gay sympathizers' disregard of non-gay students' rights on college campuses:

"Graduate student Jerome Pinn checked into his dormitory at the University of Michigan to discover that his roommate had covered the walls with posters of nude men. When the young man told Pinn he was an active homosexual who expected to have partners over, Pinn approached the Michigan housing office and asked to be transferred to another room. `They were outraged by this,' Pinn says. `They asked me what my problem was. I said that I had a religious and moral objection to homosexual conduct. They were surprised; they couldn't believe it'" (pp. 8- 9).
Clayton Duvall, a Rutgers University student, was reprimanded for putting, in jest, a sign on a friend's door saying "you're a fag" -- after the friend had put a note on his door that read "Clayton's a geek." Duvall was sentenced to 30 hours of janitorial work for violating the university's "insult policy." It was asserted that if a gay student saw the note, he would be offended. Duvall claimed his own sensibilities had been offended by on-campus gay behavior:

"Mr. Duvall, for his part, says that the university tolerates cruising in the basement bathroom of the library, where, he says, he has seen men exposing themselves to each other. James D. Anderson, associate dean of the School of Communications and chairman of the university's committee for lesbian and gay concerns, says the committee reviewed the library bathroom question and recommended that the university take no action on the grounds that the bathroom cruising would just move elsewhere if the university stopped it in the library. Says Mr. Duvall: `If a little sign that says "fag" offends them, stuff like that offends me"

(The Wall Street Journal, pp. A1, A4, February 3, 1992, "Gay students enjoy programs, protections at Rutgers University" [emphasis added]).

In a University of Iowa incident, the complaints of students were likewise disregarded. Approximately 45 students enrolled in German composition and conversation classes. In these classes they were required to watch a film graphically depicting homosexual acts: "Teachers defended their decision to show the film and said they did it to help students learn spoken German. But several students called the film pornographic and said it was repulsive, not educational. `I have to discuss this film tomorrow in class, and I don't even think I know the German words for what the people in the film were doing,' said Kathryn Worthington, a senior... Students said they were not warned of the graphic content of the film" ("Iowa students forced to watch homosexual porn films," American Family Association Journal, November/December 1991, p. 12, summarizing an article published in the September 27, 1991, Des Moines Register).

These actions constitute naked aggression against the Constitutional rights to free association and freedom of private conscience of students and organizations -- and speak volumes about gay activists' blatant disregard for the fundamental rights of opponents of gay extremist aggression.


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