'Undercurrent of fear': Students say professor's online posts are indicative of anti-LGBTQ culture in Auburn - The Auburn Plainsman

'Undercurrent of fear': Students say professor's online posts are indicative of anti-LGBTQ culture in Auburn - The Auburn Plainsman

Auburn student newspaper attacks professor for views expressed on his personal Facebook account. Authors Anthony Esolen and Robert A. J. Gagnon weigh in in the comments section. Esolen writes:

"Professor Murray has the same kinds of things to say about boys who sleep with their girl friends. And about men and women who divorce. And about men and women who commit adultery. He says what people until the day before yesterday pretty much all accepted: certain kinds of sexual behavior are wrong. They hurt the actors in the very act, as all wrong actions do, and they hurt the society roundabout. That is the turf on which the arguments must be conducted. You do not get to say, 'Oh dear, how horrible it is that somebody believes that X is wrong,' when, first, X has met widespread disapproval and not just from our own culture, and when the somebody gives reasons why he believes so, reasons that are based on observation of human realities (children need a married mother and father committed to one another for the very long term -- really, for life) and on the religious faith that is the foundation of his culture itself.

"Grow up, people. Make your case. Men fight in the arena of ideas. Fight, then. No tears allowed. Appeals to fear are out of bounds -- this man has NEVER had a single complaint against him. Or do not make your case, but live your lives and take the consequences, but do not expect the whole world to go along with you."