A Weblog Starts a Fire

At Indiana U., a professor's comments on gay schoolteachers cause a controversy

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD Bloomington, Ind.

The trouble began when Professor Eric B. Rasmusen wrote that hiring a homosexual man as a schoolteacher was akin to putting the fox in the chicken coop.

"Male homosexuals, at least, like boys and are generally promiscuous," he wrote on his...

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