Gay Program Dropped After Politician Threatens To Cut School's Funding

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/NewsContent/091203scGays.htm

Plans to create an LGBT studies program at the College of Charleston have been dropped after a member of the South Carolina legislature threatened to hold up funding to the school.

The faculty at the college had earlier said it would set up a minor concentration in gay studies, similar to programs in other colleges around the country.

The plan was abruptly shelved after state Rep. John Graham Altman III (R-Charleston), warned college President Lee Higdon that such a program could jeopardize the school's funding.


So much for academic freedom

[Zhade]

1. Homophobes are such cowards.

NT!

[plcdude]

2. exactly

when they came for the jews and I was not one I looked the other way... When will we wake up in America and get back to the values that we believe have made us a great country like academic freedom. This is disgusting and I hope to be reading about it soon in the Chronicle.

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Blackmail

how cute :mad:

[BiggJawn]

4. Extends to the Theatre Departments, too...

Same shit happened in Indiana a few years ago. State Legislator said the People don't want their tax dollars spent "promoting Homosexuality"...

Don't like mine spent promoting BIGOTRY, but does anyone listen to me?

[Duncan Grant]

5. Intimidation is such an effective tool!

I love an ignorant bully as much as the next guy. Send Altman to Congress -- he'll fit reich in. Oops!, I mean he'll fit right in. :eyes:

[cboy4]

6. Strom Thurman lives on!

:mad: :mad: :mad: