What "They Called?"

I can understand the journalistic conventions that avoid characterizing particular views during disputes, but I must admit being amused by the opening paragraph about a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/education/23nyu.html?_r=1amp;ref=nyregion"this story/a abouta href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/07/anti-gay_human.php" now-resigned NYU law lecturer Thio Li-ann/a:br /br /blockquoteA Singapore law professor who was to teach a human rights course at New York University Law School this fall has withdrawn after students span style="font-weight: bold;"protested what they called her anti-gay views./spanbr //blockquotebr /br /Hmm, I have to admit I'm not really seeing the ambiguity a href="http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/377a-serves-public-morality-nmp-thio-li-ann/"here/a:br /blockquotebr /Homosexuality is a gender identity disorder; there are numerous examples of former homosexuals successfully dealing with this. Just this year, two high profile US activists left the homosexual lifestyle, the publisher of Venus, a lesbian magazine, and an editor of Young Gay America. Their stories are available on the net. An article by an ex-gay in the New Statesmen this July identified the roots of his emotional hurts, like a distant father, overbearing mother and sexual abuse by a family friend; after working through his pain, his unwanted same-sex attractions left. While difficult, change is possible and a compassionate society would help those wanting to fulfill their heterosexual potential. There is hope. /blockquote"Heterosexual potential"?br /br /I suppose it should go without saying that this rabid bigotry is embedded within an argument that is exceptionally weak, replete with reactionary talk-radio debating points whose fallaciousness should be especially evident to an alleged advocate of human rights ("people who oppose legal discrimination are intolerant...of intolerance! Nyah-nyah!") And it's also dismaying to see a law professor see no problem with laws that she concedes will only be sporadically and arbitrarily enforced.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-8572314575775854078?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div

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