if they were forcing this on folks, I’d get miffed. We need to be the party of personal liberty. If the college boy wants to room with the college girl, have at it. The idea is like the idea of a nudist beach. It always sounds better than it really is.

Colleges and universities already contribute to the corruption of traditional values in countless ways, and they continue to push the envelope.

Does this affect me personally? You bet! In the case of Stanford, the university is likely enabling unmarried couples to cohabitate. Why should that bother me? Am I imposing my draconian Catholic values on others? Actually no. Science shows that couples that cohabitate are statistically more likely to get divorced after marrying. Divorces, especially those involving children, have negative societal implications. It doesn’t just occur in a vacuum.

Traditional marriage has been shown to be the best known means of providing the most stable and productive future citizens. This institution has been under constant assault from gay activists and from all this gender neutral garbage. A lot of universities are, in my opinion, only too happy to lend a hand in the assault against traditional values . . . the very same ones that helped make this nation great.

Thanks again for posting this.

Take Care, mailloux

This is great. Parthy on Garth!

The article seems to make clear that this Stanford program really seems primarily to be taking PC to a new level in an effort to further accomodate GLBT students by giving them the option to have opposite gender roomates (perhaps to reduce sexual tension if they pick opposite gender). And ironically, I would suspect that most heterosexual couples in a love/sexual relationship might not want to actively pursure their relationship by living in a dorm with mostly gay students.

That is, it’s clearly not about trying to facilitate heterosexual lovers to cohabitate. Indeed to do so would probably be assailed by the student body as heterosexist, etc.

So I don’t see a rampant rush for sexually active heterosexual couples (and gay couples too – remember all combinations are allowed) to sign up. One deterrent is the hazard is that if couples break up, they face a rather miserable remainder of the school year. Rather I suspect that male-female roomates are more likely to be non-sexual friends than lovers.

I just shake my head at another example of the kijnds of weirdness that come from universities jumping hoops to try to be “accomodating” to every PC-approved identity group. Jjust another turn in the downward spiral.