University tries to conceal 'gay' advocacy

University tries to conceal 'gay' advocacy
Admits designating new facility for 'transgenders'

Officials at Boise State University have been caught trying to conceal their participation in the promotion of the homosexual lifestyle by designating one of the restrooms in a new building expansion for "transgenders."

That announcement was made back in January, but when the Idaho Values Alliance reported on the designation, the university twice told the organization to correct its report.

But now, in an interview with another reporter, school officials have repeated the designation.

The most recent admission came from Boise State Student Union executive director Leah Barrett, who told the Associated Press the restroom, in fact, is a "transgender' restroom, the alliance said.

The wire reported wrote: "Leah Barrett, the BSU student union's director, said she told a group of student lawmakers the new restroom would be suitable … for transgender students."

"This comes after BSU communications director Frank Zang twice challenged the IVA to issue a 'retraction and correction' for saying what Ms. Barrett finally admitted… In an e-mail sent to the IVA on April 24, Mr. Zang said, 'Boise State has no plans for a transgendered bathroom in its expansion of the Student Union Building,'" the coalition said.

"BSU President Bob Kustra, in an e-mail sent on April 25 … accused the IVA of making 'false and misleading' statements when we had written in late April that Ms. Barrett had openly called the bathroom a 'transgender' facility. Later in that communiqué, Mr. Kustra said 'our plans have been misrepresented in this manner.'

"It looks like BSU officials are the ones doing the misrepresenting, and they owe the IVA, the taxpaying public and Idaho legislators a retraction and an apology," said Bryan Fischer, the executive director of the IVA. "Of course we understand that the building code requires a restroom that will accommodate the disabled, and we all should be glad that they will have access to a user-friendly facility.

"However, this provides no explanation as to why Ms. Barrett has been referring to it as a 'transgender' bathroom," he said.

"BSU would never say, for instance, that campus bathrooms are not only good for hygiene purposes, they are also 'suitable for intravenous drug users,' because that would be an implied endorsement of drug abuse. Ms. Barrett was in fact legitimizing transgenderism by referring to the restroom as she did," he said.

Fischer said the New York Times has described the establishment of gender-neutral bathrooms in public places as the "new political frontier" in the culture war.

"That means it is not an incidental thing for BSU officials to refer to it as a 'transgender' bathroom. If they'd been able to get away with it, homosexual activists would have considered this a great victory in their battle to normalize sexually variant behaviors," Fischer said.

"If the taxes of Idaho families are going to be spent on this issue, they should be spent providing reparative therapy to those who suffer from this disorder," he said, citing the American Psychiatric Association's references to transgenderism as a "gender identity disorder."

Fischer told WND he believes part of the reason for the denial by BSU was that a conservative student group recently had reported that officials at the school had spent $300,000 over the last several years providing 21 special speakers at the school.

However, all were of the liberal persuasion, and that revelation upset some state lawmakers who at the time were considering the millions of dollars of state aid BSU gets.

The Senate Education Committee had grilled school officials, and they ended up pledging to adjust the balance in the guests who come to the school.

"They weren't that far from getting some funding yanked," Fischer said.

Boise State, with 12,000 students, is adding about 66,000 square feet to its student union under the $35 million project.

Jonathan Sawmiller, president of the school's College Republicans, told the wire reporter the school "was told" to stop referring to it as "transgender" and to start calling it "unisex" after it developed into an issue