Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 Has anybody seen this yet? It's a Michigan assistant attorney general who has been harassing a college student because he's gay. It's just such a strange story, and this interview with Anderson Cooper just makes it worse. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2010/09/29/ac.asst.da.targets.gay.student.cnn.html" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/video/data/...cnn.html</a> Why a grown man, who has since left that college, and is a public official, feels the need to torment some college kid is beyond me. There should be no reason for this, it's not like the kid is a fellow politician. Why it matters to this guy makes no sense. It's actually fairly creepy, and I'm going to assume something just by the interview. I think he's a closet case himself. He looks like Pee Wee Herman, only in an alternate unfunny universe.
Originally Posted By ecdc This story updated today. The guy is apparently taking a leave of absence and the blog about the student is down.
Originally Posted By mele It is incredibly bizarre. My first thought when I read this story a few days ago was that this guy clearly has a sexual attraction to this person and can't accept it. Creepy.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "It is incredibly bizarre. My first thought when I read this story a few days ago was that this guy clearly has a sexual attraction to this person and can't accept it. Creepy." I was thinking the same thing. Maybe he rejected him or something. It's the only way I could rationalize why this guy was harassing some college kid. Creepy, indeed! Oh, and ecdc, I did see that update this morning. I'm glad something happened. For a little bit, his boss defended him...now it looks like he's going to be disciplined, or fired.
Originally Posted By Donny I am sick of people calling other people Hitler when they are nothing like the Nazi's or Hitler.This guy is creepy
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Boy...that Hitler. How could one man ruin a certain facial feature for all time? In any event...that assistant A/G was a creep. I saw the interview and I was just floored. The only thing I could think is that he was intentionally inviting his own termination and was ready to sue the State. But, there is no doubt the guy needs some mental help.
Originally Posted By DAR <<Boy...that Hitler. How could one man ruin a certain facial feature for all time?>> Michael Jordan is trying to bring it back
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder From the title of this thread I thought Cooper did something bizarre.
Originally Posted By DAR I don't if it's that or it's because he's Michael Jordan. It's a Hanes ad. He's sitting next a guy on a plane who's making fun of another guy because his shirt is uncomfortable.
Originally Posted By DAR BTW has anyone ever seen Anderson Cooper and Bill Maher in the same room? They even sound alike.
Originally Posted By dshyates "BTW has anyone ever seen Anderson Cooper and Bill Maher in the same room? They even sound alike." Ewww, obviously DAR, you are not a gay man. Cooper and Maher look alike in the same way Angelina Jolie and Octomom look alike.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder I was sort of kidding. I don't think there's any queston Cooper is, but Maher I think just might be in the closet.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 I don't know that Shirvell (the harrasser) is a closet case. That may be, of course. But -- c'mon, let's be real -- not all anti-gay bigots are secretly homosexual. And, FWIW, I think Shirvell should be allowed to run his demented anti-gay Christian blog on his own time without it affecting his employment status. That's his right. [It gets into the gray area given that his target is in the process of winning a restraining order against him. Shirvell has been all kinds of creepy.] There's an up-side to this story. Nearly everyone in Michigan has come out in support of Chris Armstrong, the openly-gay Michigan Student Assembly President [the target of Shirvell's psychotic screeds], from our Govenor to the President of the University of Michigan to the UM student body to a huge FaceBook group. Interestingly, Mike Cox, Michigan's Attorney General, to whom Shirvell reports, is also trying to distance himself from Shirvell. Nobody knows why Shirvell is currently on paid leave. Cox has issued a series of contradictory statements about Shirvell's behavior and employment status. Cox is also one of only ten state attorney generals who felt the need to officially support No Gay Marriage in California.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "That may be, of course. But -- c'mon, let's be real -- not all anti-gay bigots are secretly homosexual." Nope, but there is evidence that heterosexual men who victimize gay men have a higher tendency to have closeted homosexual desires than those who don't.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Why else would anyone have any reason to have any hatred towards homosexuals than if they are trying desperately to deny their own homosexual desires? They hate themselves and the people that make them have these feelings.
