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...Gladden J. Pappin ’04 has claimed that homosexual behavior is “immoral,” “perverted” and “unnatural.” His opponents have now had over a month to devise a well-reasoned, substantive refutation to what is an obvious fallacy. A refutation, perhaps, along these lines: “Pappin’s puritanical obsessions are baseless because he condemns other people’s private, mutually consensual sexual activities, which have no bearing on his own well-being.” Pappin?...
...letter, Gladden J. Pappin ’04 argued that the University should discipline students for certain sexual behaviors and called homosexuality “not merely immoral but perverted and unnatural...
Like, I imagine, many of my fellow students at the College, I was quite taken aback by the letter from Gladden J. Pappin ’04 (Letters, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” Dec. 9). There’s little question that he is in the extreme minority at Harvard in his views. However, I was somewhat disheartened to see a debate spring up on my House open list (as I imagine it may have on many lists) in which the consensus seemed to be, “What can you do, it?...
...deeply saddened by the recent letter of Gladden J. Pappin ’04 (Letters, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” Dec. 9). His letter contained a level of hate and intolerance that I never thought I would find among Harvard undergrads...
...Gladden J. Pappin ’04 errs when he asserts that condemning Harvard’s actions in 1920 to expel homosexuals “is to declare that the College should not attempt to maintain any level of moral decency whatever” (Letters, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” Dec. 9). This is a result of Pappin’s unquestioning confidence in his interpretation of “traditional morality,” an interpretation, which as his language indicates, ultimately rests on repression, discipline and the silencing of other viewpoints...