He has refused to clarify; his actions (between what this student reports and what @transmothra found) and his comments in the e-mail quoted at the end of that post about the obituary make it pretty clear that yup, he’s trying to erase LGBT people from public discourse. The key paragraph there is this:
The idea that a man can consider another man his “spouse” is ludcrious (sic). Had the obituary come in identifying his daughter as his “spouse”, should I have printed it that way? What if it had identified his dog as his “spouse”?
