Engineering Bigotry?

The articles in Prism, the magazine of the American Society for Engineering Education, focus on new research and teaching ideas. And the magazine periodically writes about efforts to diversify engineering.

Many readers of Prism were shocked this month when they found that the magazine published a letter with what would typically be considered anti-gay rhetoric. The letter questioned whether diversity “is good” if it includes same-sex orientations, which the author said are associated with people dying younger, being “addictive and abusive,” and promoting “a sexually promiscuous lifestyle.”