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Professor dumped from oil spill team over writings
Associated Press ^ | May 19, 2010 | Jim Salter

Posted on 05/19/2010 2:59:28 PM PDT by reaganaut1

A St. Louis scientist who was among a select group picked by the Obama administration to pursue a solution to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the group because of writings on his website, the U.S. Energy Department confirmed Wednesday.

Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz was one of five top scientists chosen by the Department of Energy and attended meetings in Houston last week.

Though considered a leading scientist, Katz's website postings often touch on social issues. Some of those writings have stirred anger in the past and include postings defending homophobia and questioning the value of racial diversity efforts.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu was not aware of Katz's writings before selecting him for the panel, spokeswoman Stephanie Mueller said. It was not immediately clear how the department became aware of the writings.

"Dr. Chu has spoken with dozens of scientists and engineers as part of his work to help find solutions to stop the oil spill," a statement from the Energy Department said. "Some of Professor Katz's controversial writings have become a distraction from the critical work of addressing the oil spill. Professor Katz will no longer be involved in the Department's efforts."

Katz did not respond to a phone message and e-mail seeking an interview. The extent of work he performed on the oil spill recovery effort was not immediately known.

In a website posting titled "In Defense of Homophobia," Katz wrote about the AIDS epidemic.

"The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts," he wrote."

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To: KarlInOhio
One man's opinion on homosexuality is more important than cleaning up the "worse oil spill in the history of history"? I guess we know this administrations priorities.

Chu might do something far worse than mouth Political Incorrectness... something that mandates his immediate removal from this panel! He might actually come up with a solution to "The Worst Oil Spill in the History of History" before all possible political propaganda and benefit is milked from it. Hence, He must go! NOW!!!

21 posted on 05/19/2010 3:19:56 PM PDT by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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To: reaganaut1

” It was not immediately clear how the department became aware of the writings.”

.. gay mafia comes to mind


22 posted on 05/19/2010 3:20:11 PM PDT by SF_Redux
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To: night reader

Yup! I know! I got the wrong name. View the post, not the name!


23 posted on 05/19/2010 3:24:21 PM PDT by night reader (NRA Life Member since 1962)
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To: cripplecreek

I suspect they’re interested in recreating it near Southern Lebanon, and near the West Bank and Gaza too.

They’re doing their damnedest to disarm Israel right now.

I hope Israel tells them right where to file that request (demand).


24 posted on 05/19/2010 3:27:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Excusaholic: MeCain lost to Jr., RINO endorsements are flying, & you live at 2012 Denial Blvd.)
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To: reaganaut1

“The human body was not designed to share hypodermic needles, it was not designed to be promiscuous, and it was not designed to engage in homosexual acts,” he wrote.”

Those statements have nothing to do with ideology, rather they’re simple facts which can be arrived at by the simplest among us.

This entire administration is nothing more than a bunch of nancy-boys.


25 posted on 05/19/2010 3:28:55 PM PDT by bereanway (Sarah get your gun)
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To: reaganaut1

More openess and tolerance from your friends on the American left....


26 posted on 05/19/2010 3:30:24 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: reaganaut1
So if you're an avowed communist or devoted follower of Mao, you get a cabinet position. If, however, you're politically incorrect on faggotry and multiculturalism, you can't even clean up an oil spill?

SCUMBAGS.

27 posted on 05/19/2010 3:37:03 PM PDT by AAABEST (Et lux in tenebris lucet: et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt)
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To: Lorianne
"Better we swim in oil than have a non-PC scientist on the solution team. So much for 'diversity'"

We will never achieve diversity until we all think and speak alike.

28 posted on 05/19/2010 3:37:28 PM PDT by uncommonsense (Conservatives believe what they see; Liberals see what they believe.)
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To: reaganaut1

>> was not designed to be

Given that Obama was not designed to be a leader of free people, it makes sense his administratrion would ditch this guy.


29 posted on 05/19/2010 3:37:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: reaganaut1
...send Dr Katz to the Congress....

truly a Renaissance man...

Knowledgeable on physics, oil, energy, disaster recovery and social issues...among other things...

30 posted on 05/19/2010 3:42:59 PM PDT by spokeshave (They'll get my false teeth when they pry them from my sister's cold, dead mouth)
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To: reaganaut1
Headline?

Ugly specter of profiling in mainstream media
AP Employees Promote Profiling, Persecution Of Religious Americans
Isolate them, expose them, condemn them, demand AP employees.

31 posted on 05/19/2010 3:44:54 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: reaganaut1; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; mkjessup; NFHale

Katz knows homophobia is genetic, not a choice!


32 posted on 05/19/2010 3:45:57 PM PDT by genetic homophobe
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To: Blood of Tyrants

That’s what liberals say as well, but only when it pushes their agenda.


33 posted on 05/19/2010 3:49:42 PM PDT by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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To: bereanway

I always love the way AP chooses to phrase things. “Defending homophobia,” “racial diversity efforts.” What’s a racial diversity effort? The races are diverse. Could any action make them more diverse? Could AP possibly mean “affirmative action”? Opposing failed affirmative action efforts doesn’t make one a bigot!


34 posted on 05/19/2010 3:49:47 PM PDT by jwalburg (I live in the 57th state.)
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To: genetic homophobe

LOL!


35 posted on 05/19/2010 3:51:13 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops....and vote out the RINOS!)
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To: reaganaut1

While all that’s going on could someone please lower an old tanker(with bottom selectively cut out) over the leak with controllable airbags so the angle could be controlled to pump up the natural gas and the oil through separate manifolds.
Thank you.


36 posted on 05/19/2010 4:04:55 PM PDT by norraad ("What light!">Blues Brothers)
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To: reaganaut1
What the homos don't see coming is the bus. It will be the left borrowing the mindset of the Muslims to tip stone walls onto homos. It will be the left’s means to acquire the support of the middle-class which is now protesting them. Hitler used the homos to acquire power. then he consolidated his hold by dispensing with them.
37 posted on 05/19/2010 4:05:11 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: Deb

Barney Frank


38 posted on 05/19/2010 4:06:44 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (The Left draws criminals as excrement draws flies. The Left IS a criminal organization.)
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To: reaganaut1

Remember when B.O. was trumpeting the “return of science” to Washington?


39 posted on 05/19/2010 4:10:17 PM PDT by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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To: reaganaut1
He can expect a visit from the Pre-Crime police...The gubmint psychiatrists will have a field day with him...

Hope his research doesn't depend on any gubmint grants...

40 posted on 05/19/2010 4:27:02 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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