On sending our gay students to Russia

[Moss, Kevin M.]

A thoughtful post from Eliot Borenstein on sending gay students to Russia in the current climate has been making the rounds on Facebook:

http://jordanrussiacenter.org/news/sending-our-gay-students-to-russia/

I've already had some discussions with our Middlebury students about this. I can certainly understand their concern.

Some of my colleagues also wonder if we now should check IDs if we give a university lecture on LGBT topics. I've certainly given lectures there in which I did not point out that same sex relationships and families are inferior to heterosexual ones. That would appear to be a direct violation of the law if any 17 year olds were present.

Kevin Moss
Jean Thomson Fulton Professor of Modern Languages & Literature
Middlebury College
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