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...David B. Lat's insipid ranting about the Association for the Absence of Rabid Moralism ("The Absence of Rational Minds," Feb 10, 1994) is off-base and a blatant example of the Harvard right-wing's lack of a sense of humor...
There is little logic to Lat's apparent assumption that men who love men or women who love women are any more--or less--motivated by sexual impulses than men and women who love each other...
...describing the gay membership of AFARM solely in terms of what he imagines to be their bedroom behavior, Lat caters to the bigoted notion that homosexuality is a purely libidinal matter...
Like so many other who condemn homosexuality as "shameful" or "vile," lat focuses on sex to the exclusion of other, oftern more important, aspects of homosexual relation ships or heterosexual ones,. for that matter--love, mutual attraction, support and self-sacrifice, to name just...
...Lat criticizes AFARM for rejecting "rational and intelligent discourse" in favor of ill-conceived humor. Unfortunately, by caricaturing homosexuals as promiscuous perverts, Lat himself as promiscuous perverts, Lat himself sacrifices reason and intelligence in a weak effort at writing a clever rhyme. Jordan Schreiber...