The Dec. 8, 2003, edition of Central Michigan Life states that
Michigan House Resolution 141, “if passed into law, would require
Michigan’s public universities to reexamine all class offerings and
refrain from offering classes or university-sanctioned activities that
promote or facilitate participation in a sexual lifestyle or practices
other than heterosexual monogamy.”

This is a terrible resolution and, if enacted, will become a
terrible law, one likely to be eventually overturned on constitutional
or academic-freedom grounds.

If enacted, Resolution 141 could ban much more than classes teaching
students “how to be homosexual.” For example, the mere mention of
homosexuality could be assumed to promote homosexuality, especially if
the word is mentioned in connection with historical figures who possess
at least some good qualities, such as Julius Caesar or Peter Chaikovsky.

Similarly, advertisements in school newspapers for films rated R for
sexual content, or reviews of such films, or the discussion of such
films in film classes, could be assumed to promote non-monogamous
relationships. Even the teaching of great books, such as James Joyce’s
“Ulysses,” which has a long episode set in a brothel, could be assumed
to promote non-monogamous relationships.

Finally, the teaching of birth control of any kind other than to
married students, even in medical school, could be held to promote
non-monogamous relationships.

Let your state representatives know that you do not want Michigan House Resolution 141 to be enacted into law.

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