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...writing in response to William Pike's support of General Colin Powell ("Powell Not a Bigot," April 21). I would like to argue that, contrary to Pike's opinion, the "issue" and the "individual" are inseparable in this instance, particularly given the timing and nature of his speech at Commencement. Powell's opinion that homosexuals should not be allowed in the military does reflect his attitude to all gays and lesbians since it is a statement that an individual's sexual orientation is a legitimate reason for denying him or her certain jobs or opportunities...
AALARM's flyer, posted on campus bulletin boards throughout the past week, calls for Harvard's to "Wake up to the AALARM" and accuses "Harvard's cultural elitists" of branding the "Harlem-born, South Brooklyn-raised, Afro American as a "bigot...
...feel compelled to speak on behalf of General Colin Powell. In the arguments we are seeing unfold before us, little attempt is being made to separate the issue from the individual. Despite what popular sentiment may be on this campus, I very much doubt that General Powell is the bigot he is being made...
...voters of Denver, Boulder and Aspen, most of whom opposed the amendment, suffer for the attitudes of their neighbors? Tennis ace Martina Navratilova, the resort's most famous bisexual, supports a lawsuit against Amendment 2 but argues that a boycott would hurt local gays as much as the bigot brigade. Wellington Webb, Denver's first black mayor, finds analogy in civil rights history. "When some of us were trying to desegregate the South," he told Arsenio Hall last week, "we went south. We didn't boycott the South...
...individual liberty is to have any meaning at all, it must include freedom to contract and freedom of association. It must also include freedom to be a bigot...