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Students have many courses to choose from when entering college this year: English 101, art history, biology. But the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (search) has sparked outrage thanks to one class it is offering, "How to Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation."
Gary Glenn (search), president of the Michigan affiliate of the American Family Association (search) is re-launching a battle he started three years ago when the course was first offered to close the book on the class once and for all.
He is leading a protest against the university, which he claims is using taxpayer money to “encourage and legitimize homosexual behavior in young men.”
The class' professor, David M. Halperin (search), says critics of the course are jumping the gun and don’t understand what it’s really about.
"It does not teach students to be homosexual,” Halperin told The Washington Times. "Rather, it examines critically the odd notion that there are right and wrong ways to be gay, that homosexuality is not just a sexual practice or desire but a set of specific tastes in music, movies and other cultural forms — a notion which is shared by straight and gay people alike."
Students have many courses to choose from when entering college this year: English 101, art history, biology. But the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor (search) has sparked outrage thanks to one class it is offering, "How to Be Gay: Male Homosexuality and Initiation."
Gary Glenn (search), president of the Michigan affiliate of the American Family Association (search) is re-launching a battle he started three years ago when the course was first offered to close the book on the class once and for all.
He is leading a protest against the university, which he claims is using taxpayer money to “encourage and legitimize homosexual behavior in young men.”
The class' professor, David M. Halperin (search), says critics of the course are jumping the gun and don’t understand what it’s really about.
"It does not teach students to be homosexual,” Halperin told The Washington Times. "Rather, it examines critically the odd notion that there are right and wrong ways to be gay, that homosexuality is not just a sexual practice or desire but a set of specific tastes in music, movies and other cultural forms — a notion which is shared by straight and gay people alike."
