Unscientific, Undemocratic Political Scientists

THE FOLLOWING IS A LETTER SENT TO THE LEADERS OF THE POLITICAL SCIENTISTS ORGANIZATION AFTER READING MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY'S PROFESSOR JOHN McADAMS' BLOG ENTRY ON THE EFFORTS OF SOME MEMBERS OF THAT ORGANIZATION TO FORCE A BOYCOTT OF LOUISIANA DUE TO THAT STATE'S ADOPTING OF A ONE-MAN-AND-ONE-WOMEN MARRIAGE AMENDMENT.

Dear Political Scientists:

It seems strange to me (As an American, sort-of scientist and avocational historian) that members of your professional organization would attempt to use its collective force to boycott a convention in Louisiana due to that State's passage of an Amendment to its Constitution limiting marriage to an act between one man and one women and excluding from legal consideration as married persons all same sex unions.

If those members are (As I suspect) opposed to traditional Judeo-Christian standards of morality and committed to a scientific point-of-view, then from a purely scientific point-of-view, most male homosexuals in the USA (Who have clearly demonstrated a collective and general lack of self-control and sense of the "common good") represent a disease vector as do the plague bearing fleas on rats, the flies and cockroaches who hang about "unprotected" food and garbage, the mosquitoes who carry malaria and other diseases and other like threats to the health of all people.

If the general and Jewish-Christian foundations of morality are to be ignored (As is the constant drum beat of the "homosexual lobby" and its supporters), then we should take the most effective, scientific, public health measures to stop the AIDS/HIV epidemic: Which measure is, lacking a truly effective treatment, the elimination of the central disease vector basic to that disease in the USA. After all, we kill flies, rats, mosquitoes, cockroaches and other like spreaders of diseases--So why not male homosexuals?

Do the members of your association really wish to be that "scientific"???

As an American, I am more than surprised that your association would so oppose the democratically expressed will of the People of the Sovereign State of Louisiana in passing the noted Amendment. Although I support economic boycotts by individuals, I am opposed to them being "rammed down the throat" of all members of a professional organization---Especially when the question at hand does NOT impact on the professional competence of members---AND when such an action clearly appears to be in violation of an organizations constitution or charter upon which its members have a (Legal?) right to depend for governance and collective policies.

Blog: Marquette Warrior
Post: Will the American Political Science Association Cave to Its Gay Lobby?
Link: http://mu-warrior.blogspot.com/2007/10/will-american-political-science.html