HOLLAND, MI - A Christian college has scuttled a student-proposed forum on sexuality that would have featured the participation of an openly homosexual Oscar-winning filmmaker.
Hope College in Holland, Michigan, issued a statement Wednesday saying Lance Dustin Black's advocacy for homosexual rights "would not contribute constructively" to the exploration of ongoing issues there. Black received an Academy Award for his original screenplay for Milk. He's in the Holland area directing a film that he has written, What's Wrong With Virginia. The school says Black is welcome to accept an invitation from a Hope class to talk about his career. He told The Holland Sentinel that the only controversy he was aware of was that he hadn't given the class a date yet.
Hope College in Holland, Michigan, issued a statement Wednesday saying Lance Dustin Black's advocacy for homosexual rights "would not contribute constructively" to the exploration of ongoing issues there. Black received an Academy Award for his original screenplay for Milk. He's in the Holland area directing a film that he has written, What's Wrong With Virginia.
The school says Black is welcome to accept an invitation from a Hope class to talk about his career.
He told The Holland Sentinel that the only controversy he was aware of was that he hadn't given the class a date yet.
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