Source: http://prideinutah.com/?p=4822

Mormon College Prof Sends Anti-Gay Email To Student

"University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire student Crystal Kazik organized a queer-student film festival last month, and sent an email out to faculty at the school asking for them to support the event. She got an email back from Tom Hilton, school chairman of information systems and a Mormon claiming she was hurting kids by telling them they’re born gay.

"The influence of Boyd K Packer is felt everywhere..

"His [Professor Tom Hilton] email reads:
     “I decry attempts to legitimize [homosexuals'] addictions and compulsions. These, our fellow humans, deserve our best efforts to help them recover their lives. We only hurt them further when we choose to pretend that these walking wounded are OK the way they are, that their present injuries are the best they can hope for in life.”
     
"The University has said they will be taking actions against Mr. Hilton, but that they will not be releasing those details.
This attitude is precisely why hundreds of LGBT youth take their own lives every year. Being told daily that you have to change the unchangeable takes it’s effect and drives so many into severe depression. When will the religious-right start paying attention to the American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association and every other reputable group who decry any attempts to change a persons innate sexual orientation as impossible and dangerous?

"The media did not report that Professor Hilton was a practicing Mormon. But some excellent sleuth work by PRIDEinUtah reader Chris A found that Hilton attended BYU from 1973-1982.

"Tom Hilton is also Bishop Hilton of the local ’ward’ of Mormons. Meaning that this vile and false information is what he is spreading among all local members of the Mormon Church."

this issue. This incident proves how stupid some morgbots are. It's one thing to be a closed bigot, but quite another to jeapordize your job simply because you don't have the ability to think for yourself. Morgbots get themselves in so much trouble this way because they walk around with this superior God-in-the-making complex, and fail to realize that to outiders they are simply bizarre, weird, and stupidly gulliable. Hooray for BKKKP for making this all possible (at least currently).

How would it sound if we replaced "Mormon" in every place we put "gay" or "homosexual"?

"I decry attempts to legitimize [Mormon] addictions and compulsions. These, our fellow humans, deserve our best efforts to help them recover their lives. We only hurt them further when we choose to pretend that these walking wounded are OK the way they are, that their present injuries are the best they can hope for in life.”

Why Not?? We have all had to spend time here to Recover from our Mormon experience. We have all had to endure the on-going repecussions of our exposure to the Morg.

One should always consider the source

Hilton quite clearly fails to separate his academic life from his religious life. Still, as a good Mormon, he'll do doubt play the martyr card to the hilt...on. ;o))

perhaps it's time to start an e-mail campaign to correct his mistakes?