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...finally exploding into the kind of racial brush fire that's become familiar in American political discourse. Here's how it works: 1) a semi-obscure black figure says something outrageous or anti-Semitic; 2) pundits pontificate, word processors whirr; 3) one by one, black leaders are forced to condemn the offending words and the offensive speaker. It happened to Professor Griff, formerly of the politically charged rap group Public Enemy. It also happened to Farrakhan, when he called Judaism a "gutter religion." Now Muhammad's words have put him -- and the Nation of Islam -- in the cross hairs...
...justify legislation in this way is not the same as saying that certain forms of behavior are morally wrong. When the government uses values to condemn, it is no longer a government for the people. Elected officials who use their offices as bully pulpits from which to divide the country along moral differences reduce reasonable discussion to pointless, destructively polarized debate. Politicians who try to use their positions to resolve difficult moral questions see politics as a battleground between good and evil. If only we could keep moral questions separate from political ones, we would gain a clearer understanding...
...Warren's proposal for the atomic-poweredairplane and the radiation threshold tests onhumans, Masse said: "It wasn't approved. Iwouldn't condemn people for thinking. If youdidn't open your mind and have thoughts, wewouldn't be anywhere...
College administrators broke Harvard's official ties to the clubs in 1984 to condemn their all-male status. But for final club members, the benefits of being independent of the school may actually outweigh the disadvantages...
This premise is ridiculous. The very fact that the BGLSA can equate a refusal to condemn Mansfield's moral beliefs with the wholehearted approval of those views should not only signal a failure of logic and common sense--it should also warn us that the political debate over homosexuality is fast deteriorating. If Harvard wants to prevent this debate from collapsing, it must not endorse homosexuality--partly for the sake of those who share Mansfield's views, but even more for the sake of homosexuals themselves...