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...Questioning Homosexuality" (Opinion, March 13), Stephen E. Sachs '02 claims that the morality debate over homosexuality is far from settled and must be engaged before a "consensus" can be reached on issues like same-sex marriage...
Morality Debate Won't Lead to Consensus...
...question of morality or character. Death-row criminals, immigrants held for deportation, the mentally-retarded, dead-beat fathers, even the "rapists" with whom Sachs compares homosexuals all have a legal right to marry in this country. Sachs is right to note that there is not a national consensus on homosexual rights. But morality, as the issue of same-sex marriage shows, is not the starting-point for such a debate...
...there is one line of reasoning that could save Bush's business sense, if not saving the country. Bush claims that there is no complete consensus on the causes and solutions of global warming. Studies show that somewhere lives the one out of three climate scientists who will not state a 90 percent certainty of global warming. (Never mind the fact that nearly all state that they are 50 percent sure there is global warming.) Bush gambles on that one-third of a chance that global warming is not real, that it will all go away...
...willing to consider the idea simply call Cheney irreplaceable and leave it at that. Even so, the favorite parlor game among Republicans outside the White House last week--even among Bush friends--was speculation on who might replace Cheney if he were to step down. Colin Powell was the consensus choice, although the Secretary of State passed up Bush's offer last summer. Other names included the various Senators and Governors who were runners-up to Cheney...