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...know. I just hope that in the future, Peninsula will stick to attacking The Crimson...
...HAVE READ EVERY word of the current and controversial issue of Peninsula, the first issue of this publication to come to my notice. Ordinarily such a magazine would join the rest of the unsolicited student pulp to be redeemed by recycling. But I read every word of this issue, and I am surprised: I am surprised that it is so well-written: I found not a single split infinitive. I am surprised that it is so long: it has a comprehensive attention-span for its subject. I am surprised at the variety of viewpoints, variety along a fairly limited scale...
...this surprises me for I was led to believe that this issue of Peninsula was filled with vengeful, venomous prose, intended not to advance debate or provoke discussion, but to hurt and harm those bisexual, gay and lesbian members of the University who have the misfortune to differ from the editorial staff of Peninsula and the temerity to disagree with their most cherished assumptions...
...SURPRISE notwithstanding, this particular issue of Peninsula would be easier to take if it were a screaming fundamentalist screed against filthy perversions, and a ringing endorsement of Thomism redux. Then we could dismiss the whole exercise as the produce of over-educated and socially nervous young Miniver Cheeveys, forced to live in a world and age neither of their making nor liking, and who unfortunately have their own private magazine in which to publish their tantrums...
...those of religious conviction who will have made it to the end of this special issue of Peninsula the question may well be put: how do you square religious practice and homosexuality? Those sympathetic to the position of the editors will say you cannot: this is what "The Church" teaches. Those indifferent to religion will say, "Who cares and what does it matter?" For these, homosexuality will be tolerated or condemned on grounds other than religion. But to those of us who are both homosexual and devout, the issue is not so easily dismissed...