Homosexuality Is Key to Some College Scholarships

CNSNews.com ^ | January 21, 2002 | Michael L. Betsch

[tdadams]

I'm wondering how the student would prove they're homosexual to the application committee.

[JohnGalt]

Ever see the movie Soul Man?

[Lost Highway]

They will know them by their fashion sense.

[Rightly Biased]

isn,t this discrimination?

[wwjdn]

ATT is a sick and immoral corporation. We keep being told that it is a behind the door issue. I say jail all openly homosexuals if they refuse to go back to normal moral lifestyle. Look at how much they have costs us in medical expenses (AIDS), etc.

[spycatcher]

I think the term for this is "Gay For Pay"

[FormerLib]

...dedicated to the memory of Matthew Sheppard, whom it considers a model of courage.

A model of courage? For what? For cruising a redneck bar and soliciting a couple of thugs who beat him to death. That's called 'courage' these days?

Dammit! Who keeps changing the definitions of all these words?

[Slyfox]

AT&T Foundation has awarded a handful of $1,500 academic scholarships to self-identified homosexual youth.

Big deal. Most private colleges give $1,500 academic scholarships to kids who don't have to identify their sexual orientation.

[FormerLib]

I'm wondering how the student would prove they're homosexual to the application committee.

I think the article suggests the answer:
But scholarship recipients are not discouraged from performing acts of "community service."

To which I can only reply, "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww!"

[tdadams]

I say jail all openly homosexuals if they refuse to go back to normal moral lifestyle.

Umm...yeah. Except that this is still a free country.

[300winmag]

isn,t this discrimination?

Try establishing a scholarship fund for heterosexuals-only, and watch what happens.

[Loyalist]

Eader added that the names of scholarship recipients remain anonymous, no matter what path they choose to follow.

Anonymous benefactors have endowed university scholarships in the past. But I can't think of a single scholarship that has ever been granted to anonymous recipients.

If these students are so proud of their homosexuality that they will take prize money for it, why should they not be just as proud to be declared winners of this scholarship?

[Claud]

I say jail all openly homosexuals if they refuse to go back to normal moral lifestyle.

Umm...yeah. Except that this is still a free country.

There is a freedom to commit sodomy? Odd...I don't recall reading that in the Federalist Papers.

[GSWarrior]

I have no problem with AT&T offering scholarships to homosexual students, just as I have no problem with the Boy Scouts refusal to change their policies to accommodate what is probably less than one percent of the one to two percent of the general population that is homosexual.

[Pompah]

I'm wondering how the student would prove they're homosexual to the application committee.
You're kidding, Right.?

[Don Myers]

bttt

[tdadams]

There is a freedom to commit sodomy?

So you think locking them all up is a good idea? Better check the definition of sodomy in your state. You and your wife may be guilty.

I don't think it's the government's business what someone does in their own house, given that they are a consenting adult.

[Timesink]

isn't this discrimination?

Nope, not legally, If you wish to endow a scholarship at a college, you can attach whatever conditions to it you want. There are thousands of totally weird scholarships available out there: for the left-handed, redheads, being a certain height, on and on.

Of course, the college can reject your scholarship if it doesn't like your demands. And yeah, there ought to be a law that says if a college allows people to set up scholarships with qualifications, they must accept all such offers regardless of what the qualifications are.

[wwjdn]

Except that this is still a free country.

I beg to differ, we are not free to do anything we like because it feels good. Show me that in our Constitution.