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Seton Hall gay policy irrationalLetter to the Editor, Home News Tribune from the Web, January 27, 2004The hypocrisy and sheer illogic of most anti-gay "rationale," especially when it comes from religious organizations, never cease to amaze me. Seton Hall's refusal to give official standing to a gay student group is a prime example. It's important for people to know how common and how senseless this sort of discrimination is. "The most compelling guidance from the church directs us to care for the human person whose fundamental identity is as a 'child of God' -- not a 'heterosexual' or 'homosexual,' " Dr. Laura Wankel, vice president for student affairs, has written. "No organization based solely upon sexual orientation may receive formal university recognition." And yet, Seton Hall has "100 different types of student organizations," according to its Web site, including an Asian group, black student group, a mathematics club, even an "alternate realities club"; but according to Dr. Wankel's reasoning, most of these 100 organizations should not exist. If you can't have a club that makes a distinction between "heterosexual" and "homosexual," if you can't have a club that is not equally applicable to any "child of God," then how can you have clubs that distinguish between Asians and non-Asians, blacks and non-blacks, or even those who like math and those who don't? Clearly, people like Dr. Wankel don't really believe what they're saying. Clearly, it's just a fumbling attempt to state an objection that they think they can get away with. Clearly, it's something else that they're afraid of. Kurt Gollhardt, WESTFIELD, NJ Published HNT 1/23/04
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