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"Is Andrew Shirvell Gay?" You just have to wonder....

By The Greatest American Lawyer

I could not resist this story about wack-job Andrew Shirvell, an assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan.  Here is this guy being paid with my tax dollars who is clearly fixated and inexplicably obsessed with the first gay student body President at University of Michigan.  For nearly six months, Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, has blogged about college student Chris Armstrong, an openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Andrew Shrivell is the definition of a "cyber-bully" looking for his 5 minutes of fame.  But of all the things I might conclude about  Andrew Shirvell (and for that matter Michigan Attorney General Michael Cox.), the one single thing that jumps out at me in viewing this CNN video interview by openly gay newsman Anderson Cooper is that Mr. Shirvell screams "gay" to me (and I represented the parts of the gay community for over 10 years).  I have since learned that bloggers across the spectrum have had their "gaydars" triggered, and have made the exact same observation here here and Perez Hilton here. 

I have to wonder if this guy is is another example of these loud-mouth anti-gay advocates who will ultimately end up with some male escort in a cheap motel. Or perhaps he has a crush .....

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And Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox? Well we already know about his anti-gay agenda. I love his quote about having the job of standing up for victims like Shirvell.  Huh?  While Shirvell says he works on the blog during his off-hours, one call to the AGs IT department would certainly reveal that Shirvell is tracking his own fame while my tax dollars pay his mortgage. But then Mike Cox would have to fire Shirvell which would put him in a difficult political position with his far right religious constituency. Ah politics. You just have to wonder.....

Here ia a wonderful leagal analysis of the legal issues presented by firing this idiot at teh Workplace Prof Blog here.

BTW:  To the attorney who represents Chris Armstrong.  Blogstpot will typically take down blogs which spew hate (our law firms regularly handles First Amendment, Free Speech, Defamation & Reputation issues). I have submitted a complaint to Google.  Hopefully they will agree and remove the site from its system. My day will be complete if they do.... There is a difference betwen hate speech and free speech.

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Full post as published by The Greatest American Lawyer on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).