Dear President Jacobs (UTPresident@utoledo.edu):
I am writing to express my grave disappointment with media relations personnel at The University of Toledo. I have submitted to them a series of very simple questions concerning your recent decision to fire Crystal Dixon because she exercised her First Amendment religious liberties in a public forum outside the university.
Since your media representatives have not given me the courtesy of a response to even one question I am going to direct all future questions to you. I will take up where I left off with them by quoting text from Mrs. Dixon’s opinion column. I will stop to ask you some questions from time to time.
“Daily, thousands of homosexuals make a life decision to leave the gay lifestyle evidenced by the growing population of PFOX (Parents and Friends of Ex Gays) and Exodus International just to name a few. Frequently, the individuals report that the impetus to their change of heart and lifestyle was a transformative experience with God; a realization that their choice of same-sex practices wreaked havoc in their psychological and physical lives. Charlene E. Cothran, publisher of Venus Magazine, was an aggressive, strategic supporter of gay rights and a practicing lesbian for 29 years, before she renounced her sexuality and gave Jesus Christ stewardship of her life.”
1. Is the university angry with Mrs. Dixon because it is believed that she has exaggerated the number of individuals who are leaving the homosexual lifestyle daily? If so, what about those who argue that the number of individuals leaving the homosexual lifestyle daily is exactly zero? Is the university only interested in condemning error in one direction? If so, does this mean that is has chosen sides on a political issue? Can a public university do that?
2. Is Mrs. Dixon right when she says that the gay lifestyle is bad for one’s physical health? If she’s right, is she engaging in, a) hate speech or, b) love speech, by encouraging people to change?
“The gay community vilified her angrily and withdrew financial support from her magazine, upon her announcement that she was leaving the lesbian lifestyle. Rev. Carla Thomas Royster, a highly respected New Jersey educator and founder and pastor of Blessed Redeemer Church in Burlington, NJ, married to husband Mark with two sons, bravely exposed her previous life as a lesbian in a tell-all book. When aske