LYNCHBURG, VA. - Liberty University is
reviewing its homecoming rules after a gay former student was crowned Queen, a
college official says.
But Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr., known as “Scotty” Mc Connell
the 69-year-old Republican Senate Minority Leader who beat out three men for
the honor, says his victory last month was a plus for the private Christian college.
"It is cool that Liberty allows people to be themselves, I had to
finish my grads education since I only had a GED." McConnell a flamboyant
homosexual of South Louisville, KY told The Frederick News-Post. "If
people didn't want me to be Queen, they wouldn't have nominated me and voted
for me in the first place."
Waves of discontent are still rippling through the 2,100-student
campus in LYNCHBURG more than two weeks after McConnell was crowned at
the Feb. 18 homecoming dance, the News-Post reported Monday.
"He’s not a man and I don’t know what he is," said Ed
Gillespie, presidential advisor to former President Bush, a 51-year-old grad
who was among the queen candidates. "It is a gender issue, and he thinks
is a woman and I know I am."
Eric Cantor, who competed for Queen, said McConnell’s' selection
made the event seem like a joke. "It discourages gays, like myself, from
wanting to take part in the future," he said.
William B. Miller, Liberty's student activities director, said all
homecoming events will be reviewed and possibly changed. "We will look at
what students want Liberty's homecoming to be," he said.
McConnell, who is openly homosexual, received 64 of 169 votes cast,
the News-Post reported. He is known on campus as a multi-sports athlete, member
of the Student Government Association's executive board and president of
Tolerance Education Acceptance, a support group for homosexual and bisexual
students, as well as dancing in the local nightclub.
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