Michigan Assistant AG Taking Leave Of Absence After Attacking Gay Student On His Blog

Michigan’s Gay-Bashing Assistant AG Andrew Shirvell Takes Leave Of Absence
Michigan’s Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has gained national attention recently for his bizarre crusade to smear Chris Armstrong, an Openly Gay Student assembly president at the University of Michigan. Shirvell operates a website dedicated solely to attacking Armstong’s “radical Homosexual agenda” and has called the Student “Satan’s representative” and a “ privileged pervert .” Armstrong is even seeking a Restraining Order...

Michigan Asst. AG, Owner of Blog Targeting Gay Student, Takes Leave
By Ashby Jones One of the stranger stories we’ve ever read involving an assistant Attorney General took a turn on Friday, when Michigan’s assistant Attorney General, Andrew Shirvell, went on personal leave. The move comes after weeks of intense public scrutiny of Shirvell, who attracted a lot of attention for his personal blog, which repeatedly rips the University of Michigan’s Student president, Chris Armstrong, who is Openly Gay. Click here for the Detroit News story; ...

Michigan assistant AG Andrew Shirvell takes leave after antigay blog
After Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox spent Wednesday night on CNN defending Shirvell's right to maintain the blog, his office said today that Shirvell's leave began Thursday and he'll face a disciplinary hearing when he returns. "Contrary to other reports, he has not been suspended," Cox spokeswoman Joy Yearout said this morning, after Cox's office denied to the Detroit Free Press on Thursday night that Shirvell's job status had changed. "He's taking a leave of absence. It was a personal...

Michigan assistant AG Andrew Shirvell off job after antigay blog
After Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox spent Wednesday night on CNN defending Shirvell's right to maintain the blog, his office said today that Shirvell's leave began Thursday and he'll face a disciplinary hearing when he returns. "Contrary to other reports, he has not been suspended," Cox spokeswoman Joy Yearout said this morning, after Cox's office denied to the Detroit Free Press on Thursday night that Shirvell's job status had changed. "He's taking a leave of absence. It was a personal...

Assistant AG takes leave of absence after national attention over blog against U-M student body president
Calls for Shirvell's firing have intensified since the case made national news. Michigan Attorney General Candidate David Leyton issued a statement urging his opponent to join him in pushing for Cox to take action against Shirvell, and Gov. Jennifer Granholm took to the Social Networking site Twitter late Thursday afternoon to post a message saying she would fire Shirvell if she was the AG. As of 8:45 a.m. today, nearly 8,500 members had joined a Facebook group advocating for Shirvell to...

Democratic AG candidate calls for Mike Cox to fire assistant over blog attacking U-M student body president
Michigan Attorney General Candidate David Leyton  today called on his opponent to join him in demanding that Attorney General Mike Cox fire one of his assistants for “harassing and stalking” University of Michigan Student body President Chris Armstrong . The story made national news Tuesday night when CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed Andrew Shirvell about his hate-filled website, which calls Armstrong “Satan’s representative on the Student...

U of Michigan student body president seeks restraining order against assistant state attorney genera
Source: AnnArbor.com University of Michigan Student body president seeks Restraining Order against assistant State Attorney General By: David Jesse UPDATED 3:55 PM This story has been updated with a PDF of the PPO application and with details from a Police Report filed after Armstrong called the Police on Shirvell. University of Michigan Student body President Christopher Armstrong is seeking a Restraining Order against an assistant State Attorney General who has been publicly accusing...

Free Speech? Michigan Assistant Attorney General's Blog Targets Homosexual Student Leader
Friday, October 01, 2010 By Kathy Barks Hoffman, Associated Press Lansing, Mich. (AP) - An assistant Attorney General is using his personal blog to target the Openly Gay leader of the University of Michigan's Student assembly, calling him a Racist with a "radical Homosexual agenda." The lawyer claims that when he's not at work, he has the right to say whatever he wants. But the vociferous criticism has raised questions of just how far a Civil Servant can go, and whether Andrew Shirvell's...

Michigan prosecutor who picketed gay student barred from campus
The Michigan assistant Attorney General who has been running a campaign against an Openly Gay Student body president is facing a possible Restraining Order, and has been banned from entering the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. AnnArbor.com reported Thursday that Christopher Armstrong, the first Openly Gay Student president at U of M Ann Arbor, has filed a request for a Restraining Order against Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell. Since April of this year, Shirvell "has been...

Michigan's Gov. Granholm to Attorney General Cox: I'd have already fired Shirvell
Michigan's Governor Jennifer Granholm pulled no punches with this tweet earlier today. If I was still Attorney General and Andrew Shervill worked for me, he would have already been fired. In an interview on CNN's AC360 last night, Attorney General Mike Cox was still defending the right of his assistant Attorney General, Andrew Shervill, to continue his off-the-clock Anti-gay Cyberbullying of University of Michigan's Student body president Chris Armstrong, saying "He's clearly a bully,...

University of Michigan student body president seeks restraining order against assistant state attorney general
University of Michigan Student body President Christopher Armstrong is seeking a Restraining Order against an assistant State Attorney General who has been publicly accusing Armstrong of pushing a radical Homosexual agenda and showing up at places where Armstrong is, court records show. Armstrong will go to court next week for a hearing on the personal protection Order that would prohibit Andrew Shirvell from contacting him or coming near him. Judge Nancy Francis denied Armstrong’s...

Michigan attorney general defends employee's right to blog
(CNN) -- Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox defended an assistant's Constitutional Right to wage an Internet campaign against an Openly Gay College Student, even though he considers that employee a "bully." "Here in America, we have this thing called the First Amendment, which allows people to express what they think and engage in political and social Speech," Cox told Anderson Cooper on CNN's "AC 360" on Wednesday night. "He's clearly a bully ... but is that...

Insane Stalker Assistant AG Takes Leave Of Absence To Spend More Time With His Hate
Where “too little, too late” meets “better than nothing” and “it’s about time,” we have the announcement that Michigan’s unhinged, obsessed, homophobic Assistant AG is finally taking a leave of absence , probably to devote himself full-time to his stalking career: AfterMichigan Attorney General Mike Cox spent Wednesday night on CNN defending Shirvell’s right to maintain the blog, his office said today that Shirvell’s leave...

Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell suspended
So did Mike Cox feel any pressure after Gov. Granholm said she would have booted Shirvell, or was he shamed into taking action? He says it's because "he hadn't read all of the blog." ( Det News ): Attorney General Mike Cox changed his stance Thursday, suspending Andrew Shirvell after the assistant Attorney General attracted national attention for a Controversial blog that ridicules and denounces a University of Michigan Student leader for his Gay advocacy, religious beliefs and...

Michigan's Assistant Attorney General defends 'obsessed' targeting of gay college student on Anderson Cooper show [video]
''Long before I started the blog, a couple of weeks before that, the Alliance Defense Fund, a well-known legal Christian foundation put out an alert about Chris.... Chris Armstrong is a radical Homosexual Activist who got elected partly funded by the gay and Lesbian Victory Fund to promote a very, deeply radical agenda at the University of Michigan.... His biggest issue is gender-neutral housing! What we're talking about is anybody, any man or woman wanting to choose to live together. That's a...

Michigan’s Assistant AG Harrassing Gay Student: ‘I Don’t Have Any Hate In My Body At All’
“For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant Attorney General for the state of Michigan, has waged an Internet campaign against” Chris Armstrong, who is the Openly Gay Student assembly president at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Shirvell maintains a blog called Chris Armstrong Watch where he regularly berates Armstrong and complains about what he calls the “ Homosexual lifestyle .” The blog even features mocked up graphics Shirvell has created of...

Assistant AG suspended over gay-bashing blog
Source: The Detroit News Attorney General Mike Cox changed his stance Thursday, suspending Andrew Shirvell after the assistant Attorney General attracted national attention for a Controversial blog that ridicules and denounces a University of Michigan Student leader for his Gay advocacy, religious beliefs and character. The suspension came a day after Cox told CNN he didn't intend to fire Shirvell, citing civil service rules that protect government employees from being "fired willy-nilly"...

Michigan Asst. Atty. Gen. Attacks Openly Gay Student Body President
Digby summed this story up pretty nicely in one sentence. "Where do they find these people?" The Wingnuts and Gay bashers are coming out of the woodwork in droves these days. Apparently it's alright for a State Government official to cyber-stalk a Student because he doesn't like the fact that he's Gay. Assistant Attorney General blogs against Gay Student body president : For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan, has waged an Internet...

Michigan anti-gay stalker takes leave of absence from Attorney General's office
Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has come under quite a bit of fire since his interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper aired earlier this week. While the story had simmered locally, the sudden exposure on national news hurried Shirvell's decline dramatically. Attorney General Mike Cox defended Shirvell's right to free Speech and refused to fire him claiming that the Anti-gay fanatic's lunacy was happening on his off-work hours. Attorney General Candidate David Leyton called on...

Gay-Bashing Michigan Asst AG Suspended
On Wednesday Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox defended Assistant AG Andrew Shivrell’s Constitutional Right to wage an Internet campaign against an Openly Gay College Student, even though he admitted Shivrell was a “bully.” Yesterday he changed his tune. Shirvell’s suspended : Cox said he hadn’t earlier read all of Shirvell’s blog, “Chris Armstrong Watch,” that dogs Armstrong, the 21-year-old, Openly Gay president of U-M’s Student...

Mich. assistant attorney general's blog targeting gay student leader raises free speech issues
LANSING, MICH. — An assistant Attorney General is using his personal blog to target the Openly Gay leader of the University of Michigan's Student assembly. Andrew Shirvell claims he has the right to say whatever he wants outside work, including calling 21-year-old Chris Armstrong a Racist with a "radical Homosexual agenda." It's raising questions about how far a Civil Servant can go — and if it should affect his job. Attorney General Mike Cox said Thursday the posts are...

Michigan's Gay-Bashing Assistant Attorney General Is An Unfathomable Idiot
When Anderson Cooper is visibly unable to comprehend the absurdity of an interview subject, it is very fun to watch. Last night: Michigan's assistant Attorney General and his obsessive, hate-filled attacks on the University of Michigan's Gay Student body president. A 2002 graduate of the university, Shirvell was also an anti-abortion Activist while on campus. There is a lot of raving Bigotry afoot, but here's a good summary of what has taken place on " Chris Armstrong Watch," a blog Shirvell...

Homophobic Assistant Attorney General Gets to Keep His Job Despite Harassing Student President
Photo: CNN When the news First came to light that Andrew Shirvell, an assistant Attorney General in Michigan, had been waging a hostile, unprovoked campaign against Chris Armstrong, the University of Michigan's gay Student-assembly president, Shirvell's employers mostly stayed mum. Attorney General Mike Cox declined to comment except to note Shirvell's "immaturity and lack of judgment outside the office." Last night, on AC360°, Cox emphasized again that Shirvell's actions against...

Anderson Cooper explores Michigan official's anti-gay jihad
Last night, Anderson Cooper interviewed Andrew Shirvell, an assistant Attorney General in Michigan, about Shirvell's obsessive campaign against University of Michigan Student assembly president Chris Armstrong, who is Openly Gay (or, as Shirvell puts it, "gay"). Shirvell, a graduate of University of Michigan and the conservative Ave Maria School of Law, runs the blog "Chris Armstrong Watch" in his spare time. He posts pictures of Armstrong with rainbow flags and swastikas, and also pickets...

Assistant Michigan AG Andrew Shirvell's Anti-Gay Harassment Goes Way Back
A reader writes to note that Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has been on an Anti-gay campaign for years. From a 2005 news story: Members of a local Student-oriented Catholic parish received an e-mail last week urging them to Boycott the New York Pizza Depot on East William Street because of a Gay Pride rainbow sicker on its front door. The sticker has upset some people, including Andrew Shirvell, an NYPD customer and member of St. Marys Student Parish, located down...