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NYU Law School hires anti-gay Human Rights professor
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Washington DC is the home of countless academic institutions, and the number one destination for higher learning for people all over the country and the world. Most notably, DC is known for Law programs and degrees in International Affairs. Hand in hand with those areas of study is a focus on Human Rights. How would you feel if you relocated to Washington, DC, to receive a world class education, and your professor of Human Rights taught that homosexuality was wrong?
That’s exactly what’s happening at New York University’s Law School.
NYU OUTlaws are a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender law students, as well as their supporters and friends. OUTLaw actively promotes queer visibility on campus and acts as a watchdog for LGBT issues arising within New York University School of Law and across the globe.
From the OUTlaw Blog:
“This fall, NYU Law will offer a course “Human Rights in Asia,” to be taught by the visiting professor from the National University of Singapore Dr. Thio Li-ann.
She vigorously fought the repeal of a law that would have punished sex between consenting adults with two years’ imprisonment. During a debate over the repeal of a law criminalizing gay sex, Dr. Thio asserted “a moral wrong cannot be a human right” and compared anal sex to “shoving a straw up your nose to drink.”
Regardless of Dr. Thio’s education and experience, should NYU LGBT Law students be subjected to what really amounts to hate speech?
What would you do if this situation arose at Georgetown? George Washington? American University?
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