Separate but equal?

           A bill recently passed in the House aims to require public colleges with gender and sexuality centers to create and appropriate equal funding for a center that promotes “family and traditional values.”  The bill, created by Wayne Christian, with help from the Young Conservatives of Texas, is simply transparent attempt to rid campuses of these “alternative” lifestyle centers altogether, backed up with feeble arguments of unequal representation and privileges.

            The YCT chairman argued that traditionally minded students are really the minority now, mentioning the uproar that would ensue if he were to walk through campus with a t-shirt stating, “Homosexuality is immoral.” Incidentally, you don’t generally see gay people parading around in shirts that trash heterosexuality, and as the Suicide Girls blog points out, straight kids are in no danger of being called a “breeder” and being shoved into a locker. LGBT centers are not out to recruit unassuming students to denounce Jesus and come to the dark side, either. 

            These centers are there to provide counseling, support, and education for a group of people who a lot of times are not accepted or belittled by the rest of society for who they are.  Some centers encompass other issues as well, like the University of Texas gender and sexuality center, which includes services for women, and surely, even a person who does not fall into any of these categories wouldn’t be turned away if they sought help.   It is doubtful that “traditional values” center would be quite as accepting.   Legislators claim to “favor only equal time for all kinds of sexuality”, although the actuality of such is impossible as long as there is intolerance and hatred being practiced among groups.