Montana Prof Threatened After Speaking Out Against Homophobia

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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