Critic Says OSU's 'Queers on Wheels' Event Does Disservice to Disabled
by Jim Brown
September 19, 2005
(AgapePress) - Ohio State University is being criticized for sponsoring two October workshops on homosexuals with disabilities. In an effort to celebrate both National Coming Out Week and Disability Awareness Month, OSU is holding a "Queers on Wheels" sexuality workshop.
The pro-homosexual event is being billed as a workshop that "will cover sexuality issues affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual people with disabilities." Ohio State also plans to hold a "Queers on Wheels" disability sensitivity training, which will include lectures on "using proper people-centered language," "etiquette dos and don'ts," and a "general discussion about disability and the GLBTQ community" -- that is, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queers.
Linda Harvey of the Columbus-based conservative group Mission America says such events are par for the course on the homosexual-friendly OSU campus. "This is not doing people with disabilities any favors at all by encouraging or affirming them further in the destructive homosexual lifestyle," she asserts. "I think it's a real tragedy that student fees and tuition money or any money at all goes toward something like this."
Last year, Harvey notes, Ohio State president Karen Holbrook openly opposed a ballot measure affirming traditional marriage. She says the celebration of the homosexual lifestyle is nothing new to the school's campus.
"There's a long history here in Columbus of homosexual activism," the Mission America spokeswoman points out, "and very powerful homosexual faculty at OSU that goes back three and four decades. So this is a longstanding situation. It's very unfortunate. Many people have tried to do various things about it."
Harvey is urging outraged Ohio taxpayers to write a letter of protest to OSU's Board of Trustees and to the state's governor, Bob Taft.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
