The New Jersey Star-Ledger reports on Rutgers University President Richard McCormick speaking publically for the first time today about the school’s response to 18 year old freshman Tyler Clementi, McCormick saying that administrative officials did everything in its power to properly handle the young man’s complaint that his fellow freshman and roommate was spying on his with a webcam days before Clementi committed suicide. Answering questions after a meeting with the Rutgers Board of Regents, McCormick said he personally reviewed Clementi’s student records in an attempt to understand who residence life officials dealt with the complaint. “Based on everything I know, I believe that we did all we could and we did the right thing,” McCormick said, adding “I have studied the record carefully and I can’t say much about it ... But I believe Rutgers responded appropriately to the information that we had.”
Exodus International, the anti-gay group that contends gay can be cured, and that contributes to creation of hateful climates has cancelled its sponsorship of the annual Day of Truth that encourages school students to “counter the promotion of homosexual behaviour” because the event has become too confrontational and divisive, Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International telling CNN “All the recent attention to bullying helped us realize that we need to equip kids to live out biblical tolerance and grace while treating their neighbours as they’d like to be treated, whether they agree with them or not.” The day was initiated by the conservative group to counter the Day of Silence, an event held annual in April sponsored by GLESEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.
For the first time in the fifteen year history of the Pew Research Center, fewer than half those polled indicated that they opposed the legalization of gay marriage, PEW reporting that “Polls this year have found that more Americans favour allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally than did so last year. In two polls conducted over the past few months, based on interviews with more than 6,000 adults, 42-percent favour same-sex marriage while 48-percent are opposed. In polls conducted in 2009, 37-percent favoured allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally and 54-percent were opposed.” The poll also revealed another first – a majority of Caucasian Catholic and Protestants favour gay marriage than oppose it, PEW saying “The shift in opinion on same-sex marriage has been broad-based, occurring across man demographic, political and religious groups.”
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