Princeton Ethics Prof Called Most 'PC'
	PRINCETON, N.J. (EP) - A Princeton University ethicist took the top "prize" in the 2001 Polly Awards for political correctness, given by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.     Australian-born ethicist Dr. Peter Singer has espoused controversial views supporting a variety of practices from euthanasia to infanticide. He has also advocated bestiality (sex between humans and animals). In a positive review of Midas Dekkers's Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, written for a porn web site, Singer wrote that human physical similarities with other mammals - mostly genital - are so strong that the taboo on bestiality stems not from physical differences but from "our desire to differentiate ourselves, erotically and in every other way, from animals." He suggested that sexual relationships with animals could be "mutually satisfying."     Winfield Meyers, of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, said, "If you think human life is really no different from the life of a mouse, [and] if a human infant has no more right to live than, say, a cat [as Singer does], then why not bestiality?"     Bob Knight, who heads the Culture and Family Institute of Concerned Women for America, said, "Zanies like Peter Singer are first a curiosity, then their views are examined seriously, and then they mysteriously enter the mainstream if not enough people raise protests."     The Polly Awards are given to draw attention to bizarre and outrageous examples of liberal thought. Other winners this year include the University of Oregon, which requires students to pay for activities by the Animal Liberation Front, and the State University of New York at Albany, which sanctioned a sadism and masochism club.     Temple University received dishonorable mention for an incident involving student Michael Marcavage who, after protesting against a theatrical depiction of Jesus as a homosexual, was subjected to Soviet-style behavior modification: handcuffed and committed to a psychiatric ward. Objecting to the portrayal of Jesus as the "king of queers" in the highly controversial play "Corpus Christi," the student received permission from the school to stage a counter-production based on traditional Christian teachings. A week before the productions, Temple cancelled the traditional play, allegedly for lack of money. Thinking the debate about the plays was over, Marcavage was leaving a meeting with Temple administration when he was "pushed to the floor, then handcuffed and taken to the Temple University Hospital psychiatric ward and committed," said Marcavage's attorney, Brian Fahling. The doctor evaluating him "saw no reason why he was committed," Fahling said, and discharged him. Marcavage filed suit against Temple in November, 2000.
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