Here’s a curious test case for any public servant pondering a sideline as an online political activist. An assistant state attorney general for Michigan has created a blog devoted to discrediting the University of Michigan’s student body president, who is openly gay. Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell has called student Chris Armstrong a “pervert” and “Satan’s representative” on his blog, and admits to protesting outside the 21-year-old’s home. He scours Armstrong’s Facebook page and Armstrong’s friends’ Facebook pages and posts defaced photos of Armstrong on his site. “You might wonder how is this man still employed in the attorney general’s office,” CNN’s Anderson Cooper observed in a Tuesday-night segment on Shirvell.

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