What "They Called?"

I can understand the journalistic conventions that avoid characterizing particular views during disputes, but I must admit being amused by the opening paragraph about this story about now-resigned NYU law lecturer Thio Li-ann:

A Singapore law professor who was to teach a human rights course at New York University Law School this fall has withdrawn after students protested what they called her anti-gay views.

Hmm, I have to admit I’m not really seeing the ambiguity here:

Homosexuality is a gender identity disorder; there are numerous examples of former homosexuals successfully dealing with this. Just this year, two high profile US activists left the homosexual lifestyle, the publisher of Venus, a lesbian magazine, and an editor of Young Gay America. Their stories are available on the net. An article by an ex-gay in the New Statesmen this July identified the roots of his emotional hurts, like a distant father, overbearing mother and sexual abuse by a family friend; after working through his pain, his unwanted same-sex attractions left. While difficult, change is possible and a compassionate society would help those wanting to fulfill their heterosexual potential. There is hope.

“Heterosexual potential”?

I suppose it should go without saying that this rabid bigotry is embedded within an argument that is exceptionally weak, replete with reactionary talk-radio debating points whose fallaciousness should be especially evident to an alleged advocate of human rights (“people who oppose legal discrimination are intolerant…of intolerance! Nyah-nyah!”) And it’s also dismaying to see a law professor see no problem with laws that she concedes will only be sporadically and arbitrarily enforced.