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...RECENT postering campaign, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) declared: "Sodomy can get you 15 years in prison in thousands of communities across the nation. At Harvard, it could get you 4 years at America's most prestigious university...
...what was the basis of AALARM's accusation? AALARM co-president E. Adam Webb '93 says he based the charge on his understanding that gays and lesbians represent 2 percent of the national population and 10 percent of the Harvard community. Comparing these figures, Webb concluded that "they are having a tip. They are hurting all other groups. It's a farce...
...wonder the coordinating committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel took the unprecedented step of condemning AALARM's postering campaign. Webb's response was that Hillel is a "political, P.C. hack group." This is ludicrous. Hillel's coordinating committee can and should make political decisions, which Webb has every right to criticize. But for Webb to suggest that all of Hillel is just a political front group reveals his eagerness to debate through name-calling--the charge that conservatives often level at the campus left...
...political, P.C. hack group. The kosher food it serves is not political, P.C. hack food. Mosaic is not a political, P.C. hack newsletter. Hillel's Sabbath services are not political, P.C. hack services. Obviously, the Jewish religion doesn't count in the "religion and morality" that AALARM founders find lacking on campus...
When they come to understand the consequences of their logic, AALARM founders will probably deny they support proportional representation in admissions. Regardless, AALARM's posters reveal just how far the group will skew its reasoning and contort its ideology to further its disgraceful campaign against gay students...