Edward Delgado, a former gay-identified man, has been allowed to continue a lecture series at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, after a gay-activist group complained.
Jim Minnery, president of the Alaska Family Council, said Chancellor Brian Rogers refused to bar Delgado from the campus, adding he wants a "welcoming and inclusive university."
"Kudos to him," Minnery said. "There are folks on the campus that may have a more conservative bent in their mindset, and I hope they're emboldened by this."
Gay-Straight Alliance members protested outside the school's Wood Center during the latest lecture. Minnery finds it ironic how such groups often plead for tolerance.
"They may have a disagreement with it," he said, "but it certainly is interesting on a university setting, where it's a laboratory for ideas, that they would want to have one view shut down."
