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Finally, I attempt to apply the same standard to Peninsula staff members and Peninsula itself that I attempt to apply to everyone. That is, I recognize their fallibility and make excuses for it. But because Peninsula seems to have stumbled upon some of the same truths I have, I feel compelled to attempt to influence its direction...
Obviously, I have since decided that Peninsula has no such agenda. I joined to see what these campus conservatives had to say, and to help shape Peninsula's ideological topography. After spending much time speaking with Peninsula staffers, I know that their intentions are benevolent...
...Peninsula professed Catholic and conservative thought and lacked my voice, I would have a harder time convincing people that what some members of its staff write are not the only Catholic or conservative positions on moral or political issues...
Some people have found the latest issue of Peninsula "tantamount to hate speech," as one acquaintance told me recently. Knowing those who wrote for it, however, I must protest this characterization. There may have been inaccuracies, some flawed logic and some lack of understanding of the problems that gays face. No one on Peninsula's staff was uniformly pleased with this issue either. But hate was no motivating force for its creation...
...must consider the flaws of Peninsula as I consider everyone else's flaws. When something is done out of malice, I shy away from it. When it is done out of concern, as this issue of Peninsula was, I must respect it. But until I think human beings capable of absolute perfection, I will never cease to give them the benefit of the doubt...