<p>Shirvell acknowledged protesting outside of Armstrong’s house and calling him “Satan’s representative on the student assembly.”</p>
<p>What if all the moms of gay students at Michigan protested, in shifts, outside Shirvell’s house, indefinitely, as an exercise of their free speech rights? Too much helicoptering??</p>
<p>Yessss…</p>
<p>Death by mortification of any student, gay, straight or other, is a possible unintended consequence of this sort of behavior.</p>
<p>IMO a letter or email campaign would not be untoward.</p>
<p>Just because Shirvell isn’t elected doesn’t mean the people don’t have a right to demand that their tax dollars aren’t used to pay for his livelihood. I think alh’s idea of protesting outside his house is perfect. People have long been run out of town for being gay. I love the idea of now running people out of town for being intolerant.</p>
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<p>An old boss of mine used to say that. I like it because it sounds ruder than it is, and would cause intense pain. :D</p>
<p>From the news article, this cracked me up:</p>
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<p>Oh noes, the gay recruiters strike again. Armstrong seduced that poor innocent straight conservative student and turned him gay. ROFL</p>
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<p>At least he wasn’t converted into a lawyer. Now that would have been something to protest about.</p>
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As an equally proud Michigan alum from the other side of the political fence, I am equally embarrassed.</p>
<p>OT–FF, how about that Denard Robinson???</p>
<p>Apologies to everyone else.</p>
<p>My god, this guy is positively unhinged with hatred, and I can’t believe he still has a job in the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. I also saw the Anderson Cooper interview with both Shervell and his boss, and my mouth is still hanging open in disbelief. This Shervell appears positively nuts, and his behavior well reflects that. If I were the Student Body President in question, I’d be afraid for my life, because who knows what else this guy is capable of. What really <em>&^%</em>$ me off, though, is the way his boss defended his “right” to engage in such inappropriate, off the hook behavior while yet holding down a position in the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. Anderson quoted several behavioral guidelines written by the AG’s Office which would seem to address Shervell’s behavior directly, and still, his boss staunchly stood by him. I think the boss needs to go as well. Truly.</p>
<p>I would also hope that the State Bar is investigating him; I can’t imagine that he’s not violating all sorts of ethics rules.</p>
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OT – He’s made a convert out of me. I just wish that he had a defense that was worthy of wearing the winged helmut. It would also be nice if they had a field goal kicker … but then again, perhaps Denard won’t ever need any stink’n field goals.</p>
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<p>That was also my first thought. He’s probably secretly lusting after the poor kid. But it’s the kid’s fault, right? For “turning him” gay.</p>
<p>OMG, have any of you looked at the blog? The guy is unhinged. He is a stalker. He pokes fun of and details the family vacations and comings and goings of Armstrong’s parents and sister, none of whom are public figures. He posts about their value of the parents’ house. Anyone on Armstrong’s FB – he apparently tracks and researches. This is well beyond “expression of a different political view” – of course he is entitled to disagree with a proposal to have gender neutral housing at Michigan. This is real stalking and harassment.</p>
<p>I agree, Pizzagirl - reading the blog feels like peeking into someone’s unhinged mind.</p>
<p>Does that guy get any revenue from hits on his site?</p>
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<p>The guy is a loon. “This is a political campaign,” he keeps saying. No. No it isn’t. The student was elected last year. There is no political campaign, just a lunatic closet case stalking a college student.</p>
<p>If someone stalked our daughters like this, we’d have called the police, hired security guards, and have our lawyers on speed dial.</p>
<p>This is so beyond even vehement disagreement with someone’s opinions or ideas. I wonder if at the very least this guy needs a restraining order against him. </p>
<p>Between the Rutgers roommate case, this, and the weird-o stalking of the CNN female report, wth is up with people this week? Why can’t people just behave?</p>
<p>This case is so unbelievable. It surely is harassment. It is also cyber bullying. It is also gay bashing. It is even worse that the person doing it is in the position of upholding justice. The rights of this college student are being violated. I hope there is some type of pursuit through the law to uphold this student’s rights. The restraining order is also one idea that seems to fit. I just can’t believe this guy can get away with this. And I also wonder how he can still be employed in the kind of job that he has to do which involves upholding the law and tolerance. </p>
<p>By the way, having now watched the CNN interview with Anderson Cooper, I have to agree that Shirvell comes across as a closeted gay man. And what I have noticed in many high profile cases is where there is some person in a high position (preacher, elected official, etc.) who speaks out against the gay community, all the while being gay themselves. This is a pattern in several stories in the news in recent times.</p>
<p>Although this may or may not be a case of the pot calling the kettle black, I think it does a huge disservice to the issue at hand to bring the debate down to “he must be a closeted gay guy”. Maybe he is or maybe he isn’t, but it really just doesn’t matter and belittles what is acutally going on here: a government official is publically cyber bulling and hate mongering an elected student. It’s ridiculous beyond belief and requires the law to intervine on behalf of the student. The whole thing is just plain disgusting.</p>
<p>The closeted gay aspect truly isn’t the issue but more of a “sidebar” and an observation that in many cases in the national news (the preacher in NC in the news currently) where a person has preached or advocated AGAINST homosexuals turns out to be a homosexual themselves. </p>
<p>But the case is terrible for the other reasons already cited.</p>