Yesterday was a banner day for bizarre behavior for rightwingers. This story of an obsession of a Michigan Assistant Attorney General with a University of Michigan student got lost in the noise. The student Asst. AG Andrew Shrivell is obsessed with is the openly gay student assembly president Chris Armstrong.
Using the online moniker “Concerned Michigan Alumnus,” Shirvell launched his blog in late April.
“Welcome to ‘Chris Armstrong Watch,'” Shirvell wrote in his inaugural blog post. “This is a site for concerned University of Michigan alumni, students, and others who oppose the recent election of Chris Armstrong — a RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST, RACIST, ELITIST, & LIAR — as the new head of student government.”
Among other things, Shirvell has published blog posts that accuse Armstrong of going back on a campaign promise he made to minority students; engaging in “flagrant sexual promiscuity” with another male member of the student government; sexually seducing and influencing “a previously conservative [male] student” so much so that the student, according to Shirvell, “morphed into a proponent of the radical homosexual agenda;” hosting a gay orgy in his dorm room in October 2009; and trying to recruit incoming first year students “to join the homosexual ‘lifestyle.’ “
He was interviewed Anderson Cooper and claimed
“I’m a Christian citizen exercising my First Amendment rights,” Shirvell told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I have no problem with the fact that Chris is a homosexual. I have a problem with the fact that he’s advancing a radical homosexual agenda.”
Wow. I love the part where he said he doesn’t have any hate in his body. Chris Andrews must have turned down Mr. Shirvell’s proposition. How else would you explain this guy? It does bring up a good point – at what point does someone’s private behavior become a problem in their job? Should Mr. Shirvell lose his job?