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Journal members emphasized that there is no connection between the simultaneous releases of Peninsula, a conservative student journal which promotes an anti-abortion stance, and Liberating Options...
...manifesto of Peninsula--Harvard's new right-wing magazine--the editors declare that "We exist to tell the truth." The word "truth" appears 14 times in the statement of purpose--more than once for every three sentences. The editors immodestly proclaim that they are the "good men" whose intervention will save us from "the triumph of evil...
...message of Peninsula can be distilled into two sentences, this is it: There are certain absolute moral truths that cannot be rationally discerned, but which must nevertheless be accepted on faith. These beliefs are not only the moral beacon for our personal behavior; they are universally applicable, and should be enforced by government decree, if necessary...
This isn't the language of a journal of opinion; it's the language of a tent revival. For the Peninsula editors, Harvard isn't a place for the pursuit of truth, but the maintenance of Truth--the defense of dogma against dissenters. Forget thinking, exploration and questioning. What this "moral wasteland" needs is a healthy dose of belief...
SOME articles in Peninsula attempt rational defenses of their moral disapproval. One piece goes to great lengths to argue that homosexuality and contraception are immoral because they are "inescapably unnatural." Abortion, the author argues, is "an act contrary to nature in its most basic sense...