Columnist Suzanne Fields Critiques Gay/Multicultural Courses In Universities

October 26, 2005 - Syndicated columnist Suzanne Fields' recent column, "The Evil Virus Upon Us," outlines how pro-gay courses in universities are undermining disciplined thought and encouraging students to jettison every moral, religious, social, and political scruple they have.

Mrs. Fields condemns multicultural studies, which includes pro-gay college courses such as "Intersections: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in U.S. History and Politics," taught at New York University. Students at NYU also spend a week studying the life and death of Teena Brandon, a girl who posed as a boy and was killed by young hoodlums after they discovered her secret.

According to Fields, women at Smith College joke that the college's motto is, "Queer in a year or your money back." Vassar College holds a "Homo Hop," and Williams College's Queer Student Union hosts a "Queer Bash."

Roger Kimball, writing in The New Criterion magazine has observed, "Gender studies, Ethnic Studies, Afro-American Studies, Women's Studies, Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Studies, are not the names of academic disciplines but political grievances."

According to Fields, "These studies inhibit debate, corrupt young minds and infect learning with a virus for which, like the bird flu, there is not yet an antidote."

Additional Reading: Thought Reform And The Psychology of Homosexual Advocacy.