Posted on 05/10/2023 9:16:21 AM PDT by ChipMarne
Indiana University’s famous sex research center is officially defunded after Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a two-year budget bill.
The state’s passage of the law on May 4 stipulates that taxpayer funds “may not be used to pay for the administration, operation, or programs of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.”
The College Fix asked university spokeswoman Amanda Roach what will happen next for the research center. She referred to IU President Pamela Whitten’s statement on the legislation.
“As a premier research institution with a 200-year legacy of impact within our state and around the world, IU is firmly committed to academic freedom,” Whitten stated prior to the governor’s signing of the law.
“The university is concerned that a provision singling out a specific research institute sets a troubling precedent with implications that could limit the ability of public colleges and universities to pursue research and scholarship that benefits people and improves lives.”
“IU will conduct a thorough legal review to ensure the university follows state law,” Whitten stated. “The university is committed to the ongoing crucial research and robust scholarship conducted by IU faculty and the Kinsey Institute.”
The Fix followed up by asking how the institute plans to sustain itself financially, but Roach did not respond.
The Democratic state representative for Bloomington told The Fix that the defunding “was driven by an alliance of extreme right Republicans and other Republican legislators who fear being defeated in a Republican primary.”
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Defunding the Democrat Party’s genital mutilation platform.
That place has one very sick history.
Ha, “defunds.” I read “defends.”
Defunds is better. May his hideous life’s work die the death.
A man who pulls out his dick to flash children waiting for a school bus DOES not become a civil rights activists when he does the same in the school locker room or or the ‘girls bathroom’.
Glad this filthy center is finally shut down. Kinsey went way beyond research and into the crap that has us where we are today.
Humans are the only animals that screw up sex. Academia would be the main reason.
The Kinsey Institute used to publish a weekly column in the Indianapolis Star discussing all sorts of their “research”.
Not sure what the reasoning is behind this defunding now but I never understood why it was given such a prominent place in the state to begin with.
Frankly I’d have preferred it if the legislature would’ve defunded wokeism in the schools, period. But the GOPe seems hell bent on virtue signaling.
Indeed.
Well said.
Kinsey was just another pedo in a bow tie, a precursor to Dylan and the Nashville shooter. Crucial to the further degradation of US society.
Why can’t funding for things like this go directly to voters to support or not?
Basically, give the voters line item veto power on funding.
I bet, if they were allowed to make decisions on things like this. It would drive a LOT of people to the voting booth.
Wasn't Kinsey exposed as a serial pedophile? I thought I read something about that.
I think you’re right. People do go vote when they have the option to vote on a matter.
In my little town, the town council went behind everyone’s back a couple of years ago. They inked a deal with a developer during the CoVid lockdowns, when all we had was virtual meetings, and then upon reopening allowed the public chime in. Citizens were aghast to find out that without any planning whatsoever, they approved this deal. It’s 2 years later now, and every one of those council members that signed off on it has been voted out by an irate community. Good riddance!
I feel certain that this institute would’ve been defunded a long time ago if the citizens had any say in the matter, and we should since it’s our money that’s used.
RE: Governor defunds Indiana University sex institute founded by Alfred Kinsey
That doesn’t mean the institute will not exist, only that it will have to find PRIVATE sources of funding, which is as it should be.
One has only to read his research. In order to get the data they had to molest children and even infants.
Wow. Republicans and growing ballz all over the country. Wonderful to see.
yes, there was a movie about him about fifteen years ago that sanitized this perv, but he still came across as a creepy degenerate.
“The university is committed to the ongoing crucial research and robust scholarship conducted by IU faculty and the Kinsey Institute.”
Crucial?? What’s so crucial? They coming up with the cure for cancer there by studying trannies and sex perverts?
I think the boys and girls at the school already learned about the birds and the bees and will not need this course.
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