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By Rusty Pugh and Jody Brown
April 12, 2001

(AgapePress) - A leading family-values expert says crackpot ideas from politically correct universities are making their way into mainstream thinking.

Princeton University is home to Dr. Peter Singer, who made headlines last year with his controversial views, including the belief that parents should have the right to kill their own children weeks after birth. Bob Knight, who heads the Culture and Family Institute of Concerned Women for America, says Singer is also an outspoken proponent of bestiality -- the practice of sex between humans and animals.

Knight says bestiality was smiled on by the pedophile sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, but it is now being promoted at a major American university.

"So you had Alfred Kinsey in the [19]40s and now we're up here in 2001 with Peter Singer at Princeton University giving academic support to something that has been condemned by the Bible severely," Knight says. "In fact, it's right near child sacrifice in the list in Leviticus ... and has been condemned by every society since man came upon the scene."

"There are nuts waiting to take up any cause, but very few of them hold a distinguished chair at Princeton University, and that's what's so alarming."

Knight says people like Singer are first seen as a curiosity. Then their views are taken seriously and enter the mainstream if not enough people raise protests. The pro-family proponent says America needs to wake up to the fact that these ideas are becoming more acceptable on college campuses.

"A lot of us use the expression, 'What an animal!' to say that someone has lowered himself to something that's not even human," he says. "And yet to Peter Singer, I guess that wouldn't be an insult because he sees no difference between a baby chimpanzee and a human baby."

For these views, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute recently honored Princeton and the Australian-born Singer as the most politically correct campus in America. ISI recognizes Princeton as a trend-setting university with a hallowed history, "but when its top ethicist [Singer] smiles on bestiality, we vote no confidence in its leadership or moral vision."

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