My first reaction to the LGBT protesting the censorship of a drawing in their office on campus was, "this the same group of students that censored the flyers for the How Homosexual Behavior Can Change workshop put on by Students Defending Christian Principles." At the 2004 Student Fair I caught a LGBT person taking all the promotional flyers off an SDCP information table. After the Fair the flyers I posted on the Student Life bulletin boards disappeared within hours after I posted them and continued to disappear when I reposted them. In the October 8th, 2004 issue of The Michigan Times LGBT member Zea Miller's article was a plea and a threat to the university to censor the "How Homosexual Behavior Can Change" workshop. The irony and hypocrisy of this same group of students complaining of censorship struck me immediately.
The bigger issue behind this piece of censored artwork is the methods used to promote the acceptability of gay sex through the university, and whether the university should have any control over it. Besides an official LGBT branch of the university promoting the acceptability of gay sex some professors assign books or play scripts that were written to promote the gay life style, sometimes in graphic detail. I know of one student who told her professor that she was offended by the content of a required book, and the professor let her read another book instead. In a similar situation a student asked if they could substitute another reading for the required reading about a homosexual relationship, and they were told they could not. That student dropped the class.
Even in a required book on social movements I was offended by a copy of a poster used by a segment of the gay political movement protesting for the reopening of all-night clubs with private rooms for men to have sex in. At the bottom of the poster was a picture of a man with his mouth on another man's erect penis. The heading of the poster read, "CLOSED BATHHOUSES SUCK." There are those in the gay political movement that would call this poster and its message art. It is true that censorship can have a slippery slope, but so can a policy of no censorship. Even an enlightened society has a right to seek a balance between the two. I still have that book on social movements as a resource, but I censored the graphic part of the poster in my book with a piece of tape.
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