IU Professor gets nod from Homohater Hall of Shame

Indiana University business professor Eric Rasmusen received an honorary induction into Krinklyman's Homohater Hall of Shame Friday. The Indiana Daily Student reported that Rasmusen posted anti-homosexual statements on his personal weblog, which is stored on the IU server. As quoted in the IDS, the blog stated, "A second reason not to hire homosexuals as teachers is that it puts the fox into the chicken coop. Male homosexuals, at least, like boys and are generally promiscuous. They should not be given the opportunity to satisfy their desires. Somewhat related is a reason not to hire a homosexual as a doctor even though you would hire him as a lawyer: you don't mind if your lawyer has a venereal disease such as HIV or hepatitis, but you do mind if your doctor is in a class of people among whom such diseases are common." The dean of the business school asked Rasmusen to remove the controversial material, and it has been removed.

The dean should perhaps also look into the professor's credentials as an educator, since--politics aside--he endorsed some spectacularly bad arguments. Homosexual male teachers are no more likely to be attracted to a portion of their students than heterosexual male teachers, unless the student population is all male. Both lesbian and straight female teachers will also have students who fit the demographic they are attracted to, so sexuality is simply irrelevant to the worry that Rasmusen brings up. Maybe a better way of avoiding teacher/student sexual relations would be to not hire raving, sex-addicted perverts, regardless of sexual orientation. Contending that homosexual males are "promiscuous" without any data on the promiscuity of heterosexual males is for comparison is completely irresponsible. Rasmusen is probably worried about this so much because he thinks all gay men are pedophiles. Next he'll say that black men shouldn't be teaching white girls, because they just can't help themselves.

Rasmusen also tries to convince the reader to hire a homosexual doctor as a lawyer while refusing to accept medical service from him. In general, one should hire doctors as doctors and lawyers as lawyers. Perhaps Rasmusen means to refer to the general homosexual--the "everyfag," if you will--rather than an individual. Even so, whom would you rather trust to be responsible about communicable diseases, someone whose job it is to do so, or someone whose job it is to argue with people? While men who have sex with men are more likely than any single other group be infected with HIV, it is also the case that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be infected than whites, that men are more likely to be infected than women, people from the Northeast and South are more likely to be infected than people from other regions, and people from urban areas are more likely to be infected than those from rural areas. Should your choice of physician reflect all those statistics as well? And again, we see that there is a deeper issue: you shouldn't patronize a doctor who maliciously mixes her blood with yours, regardless of her (or your) sexual orientation. We here at the Homohater Hall of Shame are nominating Professor Rasmusen for consideration by our sister organization, the Stupid People Hall of Shame. For now, we hope you'll join us in saying to him, shame on you!

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