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...attracted to (some) men, emotionally and physically. I am a good person, but there is no way for me to demonstrate this in a debate. How can I, as someone who is considered so removed from the institutions embodying the morality of many, even begin to explain how I fit into a moral framework which specifically precludes my presence...
...original question another way, what is it about being a zookeeper, a senator or a musician that exempts them from moral scrutiny? Rather than ask that BGLT (bisexual, gay, lesbian or transgendered) persons answer to the moral "prescreening" detailed in the column, it seems apropos to consider the nature of and right to demand this scrutiny. Sachs cites the issue of scriptural texts on the subject, and notes that regardless of perceived validity these arguments deserve to be engaged. However, the nature of this argument may, if not preclude a meaningful response, at least silence an appropriate one. To some...
...agree that there ought to be a moral debate, but not on the question of whether or not it is right for homosexuality to exist. Rather, perhaps we should be asking whether it is moral that anyone can be fired in 40 states because of his or her sexual orientation; that I can be kicked out of housing in 42 states; that homosexual sex by either gender is forbidden in 5 states; and that non-vaginal intercourse is illegal for all persons in 13 states (including this one). If these are the sorts of moral issues Sachs wishes to debate...
Stephen E. Sachs '02 raises a number of poignant questions surrounding what he terms "the morality debate" concerning the moral nature of homosexuality. This central question is, as he phrases it: "...what is it about identity, especially one connected with a set of actions instead of anatomy or skin color, that shields it from moral scrutiny?" Mr. Sachs derives this question by analogy, citing rapists and kleptomaniacs as examples of persons who "also have strong desires for immoral acts"; to read this makes me wonder whether he has not already answered this question for himself...
...same feeling of Sachs' being "unnerved" by the idea of homosexuality might be mirrored by a BGLT individual feeling "unnerved" that their sexual orientation is considered an issue involving other people's morality at all. To seek moral evaluation of another person's sexual preference is, in some sense, to presume that the person in question has not made their own stringent moral evaluation already. As a "straight" male, I have never had much cause to decide whether the entire body of my sexual desire was moral or not, and I hold in high regard those...