An Economic Case Against Homosexuality- Response
I have to say, when I read earlier in the week about a Purdue University professor blogging about how homosexuality is wrong and should effectively be outlawed, I wasn't surprised in the least. I also predicted that his argument would somehow incorporate false information from the bible, even though it claimed to be about an economic argument. Upon reading the blog entry, I was proven right.
What most people don't know is that the bible was translated several times from language to language and the meanings and verses have been changed to fit that language or new system of beliefs by the people that translated it. A lot of these translations reference homosexuality as a sin, but in the original (or as close as we can get to it) it actually refers to male prostitutes that sell themselves to other men for money.
A few of the people replying, thankfully, pointed out that AIDS is a primarily heterosexual disease. The disease started in Africa and spread as Africans believed that having sex with a virgin would cure you.
Saying that spending money on AIDS/HIV research is a waste of money is just ridiculous. If anyone had been paying any attention to recent news, there have actually been some breakthroughs in Asian testing facilities where a vaccine has been tested and proven to prevent or even cure AIDS in about 10% (if I remember correctly) of volunteers participating in the study. Obviously funding research for a cure of AIDS has not been a waste of time as we are closer to a cure for it than we are for other diseases cited by the Purdue professor.
Voicing your opinion and using your right to free speech is something that we as Americans have always thought was right and have fought for such rights. While the "Conservative Librarian" was free to voice his opinion, I'm disappointed that such a supposedly intelligent man would base such a large statement on a piece of religious "nonfiction" rather than concrete facts. If he feels so strongly in this regard, I find it hard to believe that he isn't using this as a bias against students or other faculty (which, according to the article sounds like he does) causing a harassing environment for them with his high level of irrational prejudice. In this day and age, you would think we would be more tolerant, but the U.S. is falling behind other more conservative countries in the acceptance of homosexuals and even gay marriage. Its time to step up, put the prejudice aside, and welcome ourselves to the future, where everyone is created equal as we were always intended to be but never have been.
For reference to the blog entry, please click the link below:
http://bertchapman.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/27/an_economic_case_against_homosexuality.thtml
What most people don't know is that the bible was translated several times from language to language and the meanings and verses have been changed to fit that language or new system of beliefs by the people that translated it. A lot of these translations reference homosexuality as a sin, but in the original (or as close as we can get to it) it actually refers to male prostitutes that sell themselves to other men for money.
A few of the people replying, thankfully, pointed out that AIDS is a primarily heterosexual disease. The disease started in Africa and spread as Africans believed that having sex with a virgin would cure you.
Saying that spending money on AIDS/HIV research is a waste of money is just ridiculous. If anyone had been paying any attention to recent news, there have actually been some breakthroughs in Asian testing facilities where a vaccine has been tested and proven to prevent or even cure AIDS in about 10% (if I remember correctly) of volunteers participating in the study. Obviously funding research for a cure of AIDS has not been a waste of time as we are closer to a cure for it than we are for other diseases cited by the Purdue professor.
Voicing your opinion and using your right to free speech is something that we as Americans have always thought was right and have fought for such rights. While the "Conservative Librarian" was free to voice his opinion, I'm disappointed that such a supposedly intelligent man would base such a large statement on a piece of religious "nonfiction" rather than concrete facts. If he feels so strongly in this regard, I find it hard to believe that he isn't using this as a bias against students or other faculty (which, according to the article sounds like he does) causing a harassing environment for them with his high level of irrational prejudice. In this day and age, you would think we would be more tolerant, but the U.S. is falling behind other more conservative countries in the acceptance of homosexuals and even gay marriage. Its time to step up, put the prejudice aside, and welcome ourselves to the future, where everyone is created equal as we were always intended to be but never have been.
For reference to the blog entry, please click the link below:
http://bertchapman.blogtownhall.com/2009/10/27/an_economic_case_against_homosexuality.thtml