Purdue students protesting professor's blog post

WEST LAFAYETTE - Some Purdue University students are calling for a faculty member’s firing after he wrote what he called “an economic case against homosexuality” on a personal blog.

Purdue senior Kevin Casimer has organized a petition campaign, saying that library science professor Bert Chapman’s posting hurt the university’s reputation.

Chapman wrote on the townhall.com Web site that money spent on AIDS would be better used for other health initiatives, such as cancer or heart disease, and that the current health care debate needed to address the economic costs of homosexual behavior.

Purdue spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg says Chapman acted within university policy by making it clear his viewpoints didn’t represent the school.

Chapman is a government information and political science librarian and doesn’t have a classroom teaching assignment.