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...surprise, then, that he's once again expressing contempt for a sizeable portion of the student body and faculty. This time, though, he's chosen not to limit the scope of his remarks to this campus; Mansfield voiced these sentiments as a trial witness in defense of Colorado's Amendment Two, which prevents the cities of that state from enacting statutes to protect the civil rights of homosexuals...
...simple, undeniable fact is that their sexuality makes lesbians and gay men targets of violence and discrimination. It is a fact that a democracy ignores at its peril; the Colorado amendment's attempt to proscribe homosexuals from state protection is the real threat to civilization. Mansfield's evaluation of the worth of gay lives is moronic, but more crucially, it's irrelevant to the issue of whether they should be protected as citizens. Homosexuals do not demand rights based on their contributions to anything--the arts, a cocktail party or civilization. They base their demands on the same weathered premise...
...same token, we have the right to denounce his testimony as irresponsible, insulting and false. Furthermore, given that Mansfield was addressing not passers by in the Square but a judge and jury which will decide whether or not Colorado gays will have rights, and given that Mansfield was speaking not merely as a private citizen but as a tenured Harvard professor whose words carry the weight of the University's implicit approval, we feel that we have an urgent responsibility to react publicly to Mansfield's remarks...
...controversial, offensive, or simply incorrect his speech may be. Likewise, as American citizens, every one of us has the right to receive fair treatment at the hands of the law--regardless of what we might choose to do in bed with a consenting partner. We trust that the Colorado court which recently gave rein to Mansfield's freedom of speech will guarantee an equally vital freedom, the freedom to love one another without fear, to a ten percent segment of the population. We urge all members of the Harvard-Radcliffe community to recognize the hurtfulness and the patronizing contempt inherent...
Mansfield was testifying this week in a constitutional challenge to Amendment 2, an amendment to the Colorado state constitution approved last year that would ban local communities from having anti-discrimination statutes based on sexual orientation...