Campus Bedlock

At the U. of Hawaii, things got a little testy recently when a request by two homosexual students to reside in the “married” dorm was turned down.

The students promptly filed a discrimination lawsuit, claiming that the university’s decision “devalued the couple’s relationship as inferior to different-sex couples, violating the Hawaii Constitution’s guarantee of equality,” according to the Star Bulletin.

The bizarre situation inspired blogger J. Grant Swank to muse in print about why America has come to the point where lodging for a same-sex couple is under consideration, i.e., that their status as a twosome should automatically equate their relationship to that of married students, with all the available perks.

“Congrats to the University of Hawaii officials who remained true to the state’s definition of marriage,” noted Grant, adding that after all, “it is the Hawaiian law.”

Deborah Lambert writes the Squeaky Chalk column for Accuracy in Academia‘s monthly Campus Report newsletter from which this feature is excerpted.