2008 Woodie Awards
As a woman, and more importantly as an individual who embraces fairness and justice, I am compelled to set the record straight following the commentary in the Feb. 29 edition of The Murray State News. While I respect the writer's passion and concern for justice, I am concerned that she failed to consider Murray State's policies and practices when writing her commentary.
No socio-political discourse is more dazzlingly hypocritical or more intellectually bankrupt than "political correctness." On this matter, I suspect, Richard Nelson and I essentially agree. But Murray State's recent decision to include "sexual orientation" in its anti-discrimination policy does not mark an ideological shift toward "political correctness," nor does it imply a "moral advocacy" of homosexuality or any other type of sexual orientation.
In response to last week's letter to the editor "Opposition to Campus Sexual Orientation Policy" by Richard Nelson, I wish to bring to light certain fallacies in his letter. First of all, the testimony of Terry Strieter on Matthew Shepard had a great deal of relevance to the issue as Shepard was a homosexual college student who was robbed, tortured and killed by two heterosexual men.
