By Rebecca O’Neill, Second Year Law Student
The opinion-editorial, entitled “Gay Agenda, U of L promoting societal problems” in The Louisville Cardinal has deeply saddened me.
As an officer in the Law School’s Lambda Law Caucus and as a member of the University of Louisville community, I was surprised The Cardinal would publish such a hateful and nonsensical op-ed.
I understand the Opinion page is a forum for opinions and ideas, but how valuable and worthy of publication, is an op-ed which links teenage pregnancy and promiscuity to what the article refers to as the “gay agenda?”
The author writes “the university should restrict campus-hosted events to those with explicit educational and/or moral value.” Apparently not familiar with the basic tenets of free speech, McVey would restrict events on campus to themes and discussions that he finds “educational” or morally valuable.
McVey apparently has a personal animus toward homosexuals, feminists, and oddly, Bill Clinton.
Yet he backs up his broad claims that the lesbian/gay/bisexual/transsexual/queer community is “indecent” and responsible for what he describes as an overall moral decline, with no evidence whatsoever.
The article was nothing more than an attempt to bully LGBTQ students and their allies.
The Cardinal should raise their standards.
