Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell Orchestrates Online Attack Against Openly Gay University Of Michigan Student Assembly President

WXYZ-TV reports on Andrew Shirvell, the assistant attorney general of Michigan, and architect of Attorney General Mike Cox, who is orchestrating a deeply disturbing online campaign against Chris Armstrong, the openly gay president of the University of Michigan’s student assembly. Armstrong, whom I posted about previously, was elected this spring, running on a platform to stop tuition increases, expand gender-neutral housing to transgendered students, and, in an effort to reduce the incidents of drunk driving, extend the hours of on-campus cafeterias. In is not certain why, but Shirvell, via a blog, soon after Armstrong’s election, posted several stunningly, violently anti-gay comments. “His agenda,” said Shirvell “was to promote the radical homosexual agenda at the University of Michigan, and to use his position to promote that cause.” Online, Shirvell wrote that Armstrong was “Satan’s representative on the Student Assembly,” posting an accompanying picture of Armstrong with a swastika attached to his face. When asked by WXYZ “How under any circumstance, regardless of whether or not you agree with somebody’s lifestyle, is something like that defensible?” Shirvell answers “Well, he is promoting a satanic lifestyle, and he is a fierce advocate for it,” adding that Armstrong is “somebody that’s there to promote special rights for homosexuals at the cost of heterosexual students.” Shirvell also accuses Armstrong of hosting “gay orgies” in his dorm room – an allegation Armstrong denies. Perhaps most puzzling is that Attorney General Cox (and by extension, Shirvell) teaches students across the state of the dangers of cyber-bullying, a behaviour that Shirvell is engaging in.