Student-funded center aiding gays questioned at UT

[kweerwolf]

AUSTIN – Since last year, a student-funded center at the University of Texas at Austin has offered counseling, workshops, forums and other services to gay, lesbian and female students.

Now some Texas conservatives are targeting the Gender and Sexuality Center, saying UT students shouldn't have to pay $80,000 a year in fees for a center that "promotes a lifestyle" a majority of Texans reject – particularly when parents are struggling to afford college costs.

"They're obviously trying to promote an agenda on one side of the political spectrum," said Will Lutz, a columnist who wrote a scathing piece on the center for the socially conservative Texans for Texas group. "What we've created is a government-funded advocacy group for values a lot of Texans don't agree with."

Within the next year, conservative groups say they plan to draft legislation that would require the center to be paid for by private sponsors instead of student fees.

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[countmyvote4real]

1. First they came for them... and then they came for me. n/t

[realisticphish]

2. i'm sure most texans aren't on the volleyball team, either

or the football team, for that matter. Yet the students still pay for that, even the ones that hate sports...

[msongs]

3. let's get rid of UT services for heterosexuals - FOOTBALL etc

health services, counseling, religious related outreach blaa blaa blaa

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[Lex]

4. Yeah, and the majority wouldn't "have agreed with" blacks having

the rights they have currently, either, would they?

My question is: Who the f*ck cares if "a lot of Texans don't agree with" it?

What if all the advances that African Americans made had been put the test of whether the majority "agreed with" them?

[BR_Parkway]

5. Texans don't agree with female students? I guess that "steers and queers"

thing really did get started with some basis in fact then.

[davidinalameda]

6. how many students go to UT

something like 40K?

that's like $2 per student

I'll send a check to them