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...HARVARD CAMPUS is buzzing about Peninsula's long-awaited, 56-page special issue on homosexuality. Alejandro E. Reuss '93 called it "bigoted." Adam D. Feldman '95 decried its "hate and innuendo." An outraged Sandi L. Dubowski '92, co-chair of the Bisexual Gay and Lesbian Students Association compared Peninsula to the Klu Klux Klan...
...while the issue was clearly hurtful, clearly offensive to many of us who disagree with its central proposition, it was not hateful. It was well within the bounds of intellectual discourse. Time and time again, Peninsula's writers deny that their opposition to homosexuality was motivated by hatred. They affirm and reaffirm that "We have no coercive capabilities; we wouldn't use them if we did." They make arguments--weak arguments, we think, but arguments nonetheless. To dismiss this issue as mere gay-bashing is simply unfair. The virulent ad hominem attacks proferred after the issue's publication, while understandable...
THAT SAID, we still have a huge, irreconcilable problem with Peninsula. They think homosexuality is bad, and we do not. For us, the issue is very simple. We don't care whether consenting adults choose same-sex or opposite-sex partners. We know that gays are perfectly capable of being happy, perfectly capable of being in love, perfectly capable of being good citizens, perfectly capable of being good parents. We don't care whether homosexuality is ingrained, conditioned, or a combination of both. We don't think homosexual acts are necessarily immoral. Peninsula disagrees...
...articles, Peninsula makes lots of arguments, most of them riddled with inaccuracies, inconsistencies and irrelevancies. But for the most part, Peninsula's basic opposition to homosexuality boils down to two points...
...Family Values. Here's how Peninsula explains the problem: "Parents are the ultimate role models. Just what kind of parental role models will homosexuals be?" (Page 25) The answer is, once again, quite simple. Gays who are good people will be good parental role models...