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Excluding a few bright lights of free thought in Western history, the racial and gender exclusivity of European societies has been guarded for centuries behind a bastion of "moral" reasoning. One need only look at our notion of miscegenation, for example, to see how such concepts as racial intermarriage were considered radically immoral aberrations of depraved individuals, or, for a more proximate example, the hate-laced editorials in the very pages of the Harvard Crimson against the granting of lending privileges to Radcliffe students wishing to use Lamont Library just a few decades...
When Oppenheim writes that "the acceptance of racial and gender difference may have been possible...only because such inclusions did not involve revision of our basic moral principles," it is the nadir of an article whose unspoken agenda is to insist that homosexuality is fundamentally immoral...
...complementary lecture titled "Identity andthe Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion asAnalogies" by David A.J. Richards will be giventomorrow. The lecture will be at 4:30 p.m. inAustin Hall
...chair of the California Civil RightsInitiative, Connerly is widely credited forplacing the 1996 referendum on the ballot. By anarrow majority, California voters accepted StateProposition 209, which banned the use of immutablecharacteristics like race, gender or nationalorigin in state actions and programs...
This past Sunday, Harvard students, along with people of every race, gender, age, ideology and taste, except for a few million people in Arizona and Indiana, participated in one of our country's only universally-observed national rituals. In a phenomenon more widely recognized than Thanksgiving, the Olympics, the Superbowl or even Hanson, people all over America set their clocks one hour ahead...