BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Indiana University is allowing a professor to continue posting through the school’s website a personal log with criticisms of gays and lesbians despite complaints from some staffers.

A university attorney determined that the log did not violate any school policies, a day after the business school dean asked economics Professor Eric Rasmusen to remove it, IU spokesperson Jane Jankowski said Sept. 5.

In Rasmusen’s web log, which was linked to from his IU biography, he expressed his views about why gays should not be teachers, elected officials and doctors.

In his log posted on the IU server, Rasmusen wrote: “Male homosexuals, at least, like boys and are generally promiscuous. They should not be given the opportunity to satisfy their desires.”

Jankowski said IU allows students and employees to create personal web pages that are available through its Web site, but the university does not accept responsibility for their content.

“Certainly there are going to be times when there is going to be information that some people might disagree with, but that doesn’t mean that information is illegal or violates policy,” she said.

Doug Bauder, coordinator of IU’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender services, said a staff member called his office and brought the site to his attention.

“It’s not an easy web page to look at,” Bauder said. “From what I read, it is very offensive.”

“I did not know it was so controversial to provide arguments for why homosexuals should not be employed as school teachers, but it seems that people at universities get excited about opinions that are common, perhaps even the norm, elsewhere in the United States,” Rasmusen wrote in an e-mail to the Indiana Daily Student newspaper.