Assistant attorney general blogs against gay student body president

[borosp1]

This guy is either a mental case or a closet homo himself. Why would an assistant attorney general protest against some student at a university he doesn't even know. You guys gotta see the interview with him on CNN. I am not sure how he is not fired for harassing a person on the internet. Seems like he lacks any judgment to be an attorney and definitively should not represent the state of Michigan.

For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, has waged an internet campaign against college student Chris Armstrong, the openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Using the online moniker "Concerned Michigan Alumnus," Shirvell launched his blog in late April.

"Welcome to 'Chris Armstrong Watch,'" Shirvell wrote in his inaugural blog post. "This is a site for concerned University of Michigan alumni, students, and others who oppose the recent election of Chris Armstrong -- a RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST, RACIST, ELITIST, & LIAR -- as the new head of student government."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/28/michigan.justice.blog/index.html?hpt=C1

 

[Red Dawn]

I vote for closet Homo. It seems those most publicly active against Homosexuals are practioners on the Down Low.

 

[PokerGuy]

So far, no charges have been pressed and there's been no evidence of anything illegal. Poor judgment, yes. Illegal? I dunno, that's up to the legal system to figure out. He's entitled to his opinion, and he can have a blog if he wants to just like anyone else. As long as he's not breaking any laws......

 

[borosp1]

So far, no charges have been pressed and there's been no evidence of anything illegal. Poor judgment, yes. Illegal? I dunno, that's up to the legal system to figure out. He's entitled to his opinion, and he can have a blog if he wants to just like anyone else. As long as he's not breaking any laws......

I don't know anout that one but I would think harassing someone on the internet and in front of there house for no reason seems to be some law is broken... IE harassment... Imagine if I showed up in front of your house and started protesting.. i am sure the police would say I didn't break any laws when they take me to jail.

 

[yllus]

I don't know anout that one but I would think harassing someone on the internet and in front of there house for no reason seems to be some law is broken... IE harassment... Imagine if I showed up in front of your house and started protesting.. i am sure the police would say I didn't break any laws when they take me to jail.

They might take you down to the station, but they wouldn't have any real legal grounds to do so AFAIK. Recently here in Toronto we had a small group of evangelical Christians standing on the sidewalk in front of a gay couple's house, singing and shouting Bible verses (story). The local community eventually got angry enough at this to come out and tell them off, but the police had nothing to work with.

 

[Vette73]

They might take you down to the station, but they wouldn't have any real legal grounds to do so AFAIK. Recently here in Toronto we had a small group of evangelical Christians standing on the sidewalk in front of a gay couple's house, singing and shouting Bible verses (story). The local community eventually got angry enough at this to come out and tell them off, but the police had nothing to work with.

If they were screaming then disturbing the peace. Also if they were there for to long also loitering.

 

[HumblePie]

So far, no charges have been pressed and there's been no evidence of anything illegal. Poor judgment, yes. Illegal? I dunno, that's up to the legal system to figure out. He's entitled to his opinion, and he can have a blog if he wants to just like anyone else. As long as he's not breaking any laws......

^^^This, but I wouldn't expect him to hold his job much longer either.

 

[Moonbeam]

^^^This, but I wouldn't expect him to hold his job much longer either.

My first thought was that he is elected and this is just an effort to use bigotry to get elected again. Most bigots assume that everybody thinks just like them.

 

[woolfe9999]

Likely he can't be fired for this if there was no technical law breaking. His employer is gov. His blog was broadly speaking on matters of "public concern" (debatable maybe). You can't be fired by a public employer for exercising your First Amendment rights when speaking on matters of "puiblic concern."

- wolf

 

[her209]

The pursuit of happiness is clearly destructive to conservative ideology. Duh.

 

[Moonbeam]

Bigots are very proud of their bigotry and love to proclaim it publicly until of course it causes them trouble at which time it will go underground.

 

[Moonbeam]

Tried to post this in the other thread but it was closed:

You have to realize that as a bigot this man is completely unaware that he is an embarrassment to his office or his state. In his eyes what he is doing is fighting against a great evil. He mind has been deeply programmed by a bigot religion and he thinks he works for God. Nothing can touch him, no light can shine in his dark soul because he believes he stands in the light.

This is what happens when we are destroyed as children and made to hate ourselves and then handed the one and only truth that can save us. None of these saved who are lost will want to let go of their beliefs and feel how lost they were originally made to feel before they bought into their religious garbage. To let go would be exactly like becoming a homosexual to them because all that hate of evil would fall back on him. He would see that all his hate of evil is his hate of himself. Not much chance of that. Fools who think they have already been saved are not going to want to have to die all over again. He will never know he has been forgiven because he will never feel his real guilt.

Consider this: This man is all of us. Th hate his bigotry is to hate your own and drive it underground just like he has. He has been forgiven and so have you.

 

[dawp]

looks like he's taking a leave of absence and closed the blog

http://detroitnews.com/article/2010...t-AG-takes-leave-amid-gay-bashing-controversy