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Support for police photography of protests is by no means unanimous. Last year, General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 ordered Harvard police to stop videotaping a militant ACT-UP protest. We hope he will continue to show an enlightened attitude and ban the use of such Orwellian techniques...
...efforts of radical gays are not limited to anti-religious theatrics. ACT-UP fire-eaters like Larry Kramer have declared war on virtually every government institution and figure. Their latest target has been Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis Sullivan, whom they accuse of insufficienty funding AIDS research. (Ironically, when compared to heart disease and cancer, AIDS already receives far more funding in proportion to the number of victims it claims...
Though the act of desecration (which ACT-UP has failed to disavow) was not depicted in the video, both Watson and Lai have freely and publicly admitted that the video presents the protest in a positive light. This was apparent even to those who had not seen the video because of the hostile tone of its publicity and the close affiliation of the filmmakers with ACT...
Many students, including myself, wished to express constructively our anger and paint at the appearance of anti-Catholics propaganda on campus, at ACT-UP's frequent infringements on the religious freedom of Catholics and especially at their desecration of the Eucharist. At the same time, we felt unwilling to participate in ORGASM's event, as we wished to make no semblance of complicity with the offenses of the ACT-UP protest...
Unlike Lai and Watson, we chose to avoid being perceived as connected in any way with "Stop the Church," precisely because ACT-UP's protest so clearly eschewed lawful respect for a plurality of political and religious viewpoint and the freedom to express them. (In retrospect, it seems both ironic and telling that Lai has refused to condemn these infringements of freedom and openness, but at the same time, has angrily accused me of subverting intellectual discourse...