Professor Bert Chapman from Perdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana has caused a firestorm because of his views on homosexuality.  Chapman believes gays are an “economic drain” and blames the LGBTI community for AIDS research and prevention spending. (source)

The professor’s political views are now making main-stream media news in Indiana and surrounding states.

Chapman writes:

Let’s start with AIDS. U.S. Government expenditures on this disease have risen from $200,000 in Fiscal Year 1980-1981 to $23.3 billion for Fiscal Year 2008. These figures have increased steadily over nearly three decades and probably exceed $100 billion. When you factor in what countries all over the world have spent on seeking to diminish this disease, without recognizing the morally aberrant sexual behavior (including heterosexual promiscuity in Africa and elsewhere) causing its spread, we are probably looking at U.S. expenditures of over $1 trillion dollars.

In early 1981, when AIDS was becoming “a household name,” the federal government did nothing about it. Governor’s and state Department for Public Health officials scrambled to allocate money for research at universities, and to find additional money for research labs because you simply didn’t say the word “gay,” or “AIDS,” when Ronald Regan (R) was the U.S. President.

Former U.S. President Regan didn’t even say the word in public until October 18, 1987 with 59,572 AIDS cases reported and 27,909 deaths. Major change would not come until 1990 when the United Nations World Health Organization ordered it.

HIV/AIDS is a worldwide epidemic, with infection rates rising again across Kentucky and the nation. HIV/AIDS is not a “gay disease.” Today, the primary mode of HIV infection worldwide is through sexual contact between members of the opposite sex, with blood transfusions, childbirth, and needles (drug users) being the primary source of infection. (Source: CDC Report – Antiretroviral Postexposure)

Back to Professor Chapman:

Our ongoing U.S. political debate over health care reform also needs to factor in the economic costs of homosexual and other sexually deviant behaviors on our health care system in terms of pharmaceutical drugs, tainted blood supplies, and requiring doctors and nurses to treat sexually transmitted diseases which would be less likely to occur if people practiced chastity outside of heterosexual marriage and monogamy within such marriage. The sad practice of so many companies and universities adopting domestic partner benefits in a misguided effort to attract employees drives up insurance costs for these companies and prevents them from providing additional coverage to those of us adhering to traditional sexual moral standards.

The university has rejected calls to fire Chapman, but students at the university are refusing to attend his classes, and some have even organized protests. (source)

One lesbian sophomore student wrote to The Purdue Exponent, the student newspaper: “As a student, as a lesbian, as a human being, I believe with every fiber of my being that Purdue University in no way should affiliate itself with the hateful, bigoted opinions of Professor Chapman. Imagine that Professor Chapman’s blog had been titled, ‘An Economic Case Against Interracial Marriage‘ or ‘An Economic Case Against the Disabled.’

Another student wrote: “Bert Chapman surrendered his position at Purdue the moment he decided to publish such intellectual diarrhea on his blog. The issue is not Dr. Chapman’s views of homosexuality, bigoted and wrong-headed though they may be, but that he has abused his authority as a scholar and an expert to disseminate hate-filled propaganda. Professors are expected to use their studies to search for the truth, but Dr. Chapman appears to feel more at home making up his own facts about AIDS, prison sex and other such matters he falsely connects to what he calls sodomy. He is using these lies to extinguish the essential rights of a group that accounts for an estimated 5-10 percent of our nation’s total population. It should not be merely Purdue’s LGBT students and faculty that are offended by this, but every single decent soul on this campus. Dr. Bert Chapman is not just a homophobe, I think he’s a liar, and it’s about time he start looking for a job elsewhere.”