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...interest of both those straight people who, prior to arriving at Harvard, have never before been asked to evaluate their views on homosexuality, and in defense of those who are trying to understand their own sexuality, we seek in this letter to "straighten" some of Peninsula's facts and to repudiate their most dangerous unwarranted assumptions...
...begin with, we challenge Peninsula's assertion that homosexuality is rare. In "De Scopulo," the author discredits A.C. Kinsey's 1948 finding that 10 percent of the American population is homosexual, claiming that those who participated in Kinsey's study were necessarily more open with their sexuality than the American population as a whole. The author apparently did not have the time to examine the entirety of Kinsey's work. Kinsey does anticipate this objection, and states: "We were repeatedly assailed with doubts as to whether we were getting a fair cross-section of the total population or whether...
...pressured Peninsula staffer failed to recognize not only Kinsey's own search for truth but also that of several other studies which verified the prevalence of homosexuality in the American population, namely R.T. Ross' Measures of the Sex Behavior of College Males as Compared to the Kinsey Reports (1950) and Masters and Johnson's Homosexuality in Perspective (1979). Given that these studies' results correlated precisely with Kinsey's, we wonder whether the "tireless" writer of this article was not a little eager in dismissing the 10 percent statistic. And given that, according to this statistic, 90 percent of the nation...
...might argue in the name of Christian compassion that, though cruel, it is necessary to destroy homosexuals' belief that there are others like them. Gay people, as R. Wasinger points out in "If You're Gonna Call Me Names," clearly can not be happy, and must benefit from Peninsula's particular, condescending brand of Tough Love, which seeks to persuade gays that "human beings can resist their impulses," ("Caritas," p.38) i.e. that with enough perseverance gays can discover true moral and physical satisfaction through the practice of heterosexuality. The fact that Peninsula ignores the abundantly documented failure of a multitude...
...that homosexuals who are unhappy about being gay might be less so if their medically unalterable orientation did not require them to participate in a struggle for basic rights which has continued unjustly for far longer than Wasinger's 20-odd years. Here we are interested in ensuring that Peninsula's version of the adage "hate the sin but love the sinner," informed as it is by the authors' stated desire to develop laws, public policies, and community standards which would publicly "discourage" homosexuality, is not mistaken by homosexuals or straights for either a solution to discrimination-induced unhappiness...