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by ben1040 4415 days ago
Of note is that this 1999 essay came back around in 2010 when Katz was tapped by the DoE for a scientific task force evaluating options for the Deepwater Horizon cleanup.

He was removed from the group in fairly short order, after people found this essay and put the heat on him for it.

Shortly afterwards, Katz' son came out to his father.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/son-of-homophobic-f...
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GFK_of_xmaspast 4415 days ago
"After coming out, Katz persuaded his father to remove from his website the "In Defense of Homophobia" essay, written in 1999, when Isaac was 11."

The essay appears to be back up, I guess Katz pere doubled down.

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ben1040 4415 days ago
From this article from the Washington University student newspaper, it looks like Katz reposted the essay within days after that Post-Dispatch article ran.

http://www.studlife.com/news/2010/10/13/students-come-out-as...

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