Editor Resigns over Anti-gay Comic Strip

Remember this pic?

In Notre Dame, this anti-gay cartoon was printed in the student-run newspaper, The Observer.
Many folks were angry and LGBT groups, including GLAAD, were immediately on the scene.

Now, one of the editors has resigned over the mishandling over the comic strip.

The Observer, the campus newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College, today published a letter of resignation and apology from Kara King, an assistant managing editor.

In the letter, King wrote: "A miscommunication between another editor and myself led to the comic running without me first reading and approving the material. Regardless, no excuse can justify the comic even being considered for publication, and the duty to censor it fell to me. I failed to do so, and am solely responsible for providing a forum for this message of hate."

The Observer also reported today that the comic strip, "The Mobile Party," will no longer be published in the paper. The authors of the strip, Notre Dame seniors Colin Hofman, Jay Wade and Lauren Rosemeyer, apologized for the cartoon in a letter published Friday.

I hope the LGBT student orgs are having conversations with them. It's still unacceptable.