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...pleased the Faculty Council refused the Gay Students Association's ill-considered request that it investigate and reprimand Mr. Edward Pattullo for his published views on homosexuality. It was a disservice to the cause of free speech at this great institution for the GSA to claim that Mr. Pattullo's official role as directory of the Center for Behavioral Sciences constituted a constraint, de jure, on his freedom of speech. The GSA has only one legitimate recourse against Mr. Pattullo's views on homosexuality--to debate them, but not to prevent them. I do not myself share Mr. Pattullo...
...absence of values such as those expressed by Mr. Pattullo, most gays and lesbians would neither feel "condemned to a homosexual existence," The very words chosen to express these ideas are both cruel and contribute to the self-hatred many homosexuals actively feel, and the rest of us work constantly to overcome. In addition, the less controlled element of society find it all to easy to use such statements not to support us (after all, if we did have a disability, we would deserve at least decent and moral treatment) and to justify violence. Both police and medical personnel routinely...
...choose it, given the penalties we face: rejection ,fear, loss of friends, family and children, not to mention jobs and homes, as well as prison and death, quite literally. Every gay or lesbian person personally knows suicides or dead victims of queer-bashing. We are, homosexual just as Mr. Pattullo is straight...
...draw an analogy I hope makes Mr. Pattullo and those who support him most uncomfortable, would he wish to state that "negative social pressure" should keep someone from being black in a white society (if changing the color of one's skin were possible) or from being Jewish in a Christian society? I would hope anyone would see the racism or anti-Semitism inherent to such statements...
...hope that Mr. Pattullo's letter, as well as the response to it, will encourage the President and Fellows of Harvard College, as well as the Faculty, to adopt a firm policy of nondiscrimination towards gays and lesbians, both students and employees. To live freely and without fear cannot be too much to ask. Elizabeth R. Brown Cambridge...