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(Butte, Montana) A professor at Montana Tech says
his life has been threatened after speaking out against homophobia on the campus
of the school, part of the University of Montana in Butte.
John Ray said the threat was made in an email
that he has turned over to police.
The threat was made after Ray sent a campus wide
email criticizing another professor who had emailed students and faculty
denouncing a decision to show the movie "Brokeback Mountain at the school.
Ray responded by sending several emails
promoting tolerance toward gays.
"Shut the fuck up," the threatening
email to Ray said. "Please stop sending these stupid emails. Get a
shrink if you need someone to communicate with. We don't care!!!!!!!!!! I
swear to God I will find where you live and beat you if you keep sending these
dumb emails out to everyone."
Ray said that after receiving
the threat he has been receiving email "pop ups" on his
e-mail advertising gay and child pornography Web sites and believes
someone got his campus email “user code” and registered his address to the Web sites.
Police say that the threatening
email has a return Web address but that it is not yet clear if
that was the original source of the threat.
A forensics investigator is
examining Ray's computer to see if it has been tampered with
and the schools server to trace the email sent to him.
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