"As some of you may be aware, the Campus Conservatives at Central Michigan University are bringing Gary Glenn, the president of the American Family Association of Michigan, to campus on Tuesday evening (April 7) to speak out against gay rights. Glenn's organization, the AFA, is an extremist anti-gay group that is both anti-gay and anti-semitic in it's rhetoric and which supports the work of the Family Research Group, an organization identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Glenn is most famous for his authorship of Proposition 2 in 2004. I am organizing a peaceful protest to take place across the street from the Bovee University Center at 7pm, an hour prior to Glenn's planned speech. I hope to get a wide coalition of individuals and groups to attend and show Mr. Glenn and the AFA that hate is not a family value, hate is not a democratic value, hate is not an Isabella county value, a Michigan value or a CMU value. Please pass this information along to any individual or group that you think would be interested in participating. An update and reminder with further information will be sent out on Tuesday morning.

It seems as if this event(Glenn's speech) was intended to coincide with CMU's annual Pride Week, which has traditionally fallen during this week in April; however, Pride Week 2009 is actually next week this year.

Bring signs, placards, your voice, etc. The idea is to counter Glenn's message of hate with a peaceful message of acceptance and love.

Directions: The Bovee University Center is located on the campus of Central Michigan University at 103 E Preston St in Mt Pleasant, MI. The peaceful protest will take place across the street from the UC."

I for one plan on attending this protest, and I think everyone else should too, if time permits. Let's show these people that hate and inequality are not welcomed here at CMU!