Ives' anti LGBT history should disqualify her for COD presidential search committee

DuPage residents are not being well served by inclusion of former state rep Jeanne Ives on the 16 member search committee to select a new COD president. She has a history of horrendous views on LGBT persons, including school leaders breathtaking in their fear, ignorance and hate. In February, 2013, as a leader in the crusade to prevent gay marriage in Illinois she charged that "same sex marriages are completely disordered"...with gays "trying to weasel their way into acceptability so that they can then start to push their agenda down into the schools, because this gives them some sort of legitimacy... and we can't allow that to happen." Having lost the battle to prevent gay marriage Ives turned her vitriol to school administrators striving to grant full civil rights and dignity to transgender students, lamenting these noble efforts are "happening in Wheaton schools too. To dispel any thought she supports these efforts she shared an op ed from anti LGBT hate group Illinois Family Institute which likened such dedicated school teachers and administrators as being "like dirty old men in trench coats lying in wait to expose children to sordid things." Ives atrocious views on the LGBT community were not the immature ravings of a youngster, but the long held views of a middle age public servant. Ives never adequately apologized or repudiated these actions which make her unfit for any involvement in selecting college presidents or influencing educational policy. Ives should withdraw forthwith form the COD presidential selection committee. If she doesn't, the governing body which selected her should seek her removal.