YAF's beliefs align the group with hate
By Matthew Bush Royal Oak senior Guest Column
People, please come out of your own little world.
I realize some of you are like BJ Pankow and are Young Americans for Freedom members yourselves and are the people writing letters and trying to get back at people whose head isn't up their rear end. I am a Republican, I have conservative values and beliefs, but YAF isn't conservative----- - it's hateful. Groups such as YAF make me ashamed of my values because you consistently act not in the name of values, but of hate.
How much coincidence is needed to believe that a group that is openly against gay rights, and protests gay rights next to anti-gay chalkings, wrote those anti-gay chalkings? I don't think it's that far of a leap. In fact, it's a very short step. When Student Government Association has members who took the pictures of those chalkings and are able to identify the people who are taking part of the YAF protest as people who did the chalking. This also seems fishy to me.
If you want evidence, just Google YAF. Catch an illegal immigrant day, straight power, end faggotry; All of this started at MSU, but with the help of Topinabee sophomore Dennis Lennox II, that sentiment has come here.
CMU YAF members have been at MSU during these disgusting incidents and this act is plenty enough to consider them a hate group. SGA is taking the initiative just as they did with the Neo-Nazis to identify and try to stop this hate speech - not free speech - from spreading and infecting the rest of our campus.
Lastly, we have YAF passing the idea that the Gay/Straight Alliance wrote these chalkings. You have to be kidding me. The first thing you do when you are caught red-handed is pass off the guilt to someone else, and that's exactly what YAF did. They claimed the group promoting gay rights wrote anti-gay chalking. How ridiculous is that? Yes, there is a video, but it's obvious in the video the student was scribbling the chalking out.
YAF is a hate group; I apologize if people don't like it that I'm biased against hate groups. We approved this same legislation two years ago when the Neo-Nazis came and there wasn't this outcry.
The SGA is only trying to make campus a more safe, comfortable and pleasant place to be. If that's something you don't want your student government to strive toward leave CMU, because that's what this student government - and administration - want.
Matt Bush is an SGA representative and co-author of the YAF Hate group legislation. He can be contacted at bush1mj@cmich.edu.
