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While the HULSA was indeed seeking to interrupt the free exchange of ideas, the GSA was reacting to an attack by a University official against the rights of gay people to live their lives free from fear, harassment, and discrimination...
...questions Mr. E.L. Pattullo's right to express his opinions, no matter how misinformed and inflammatory they may be. What the GSA and those of who have signed its petition object to is the fact that his signing his letter with his title and his using the word "we" ("...we see exclusive homosexuality as a disability and believe that society should be structured to encourage heterosexual development") implies, perhaps unwittingly, that the Center for Behavioral Sciences endorses the concept of "negative social pressures" against gay people...
Under the circumstances, the GSA is not only justified in calling on Dean Rosovsky to investigate and clarify the Center's policies, it is obligated...
...maintain, as Mr. Engelmayer does, that the GSA's calling for an investigation of the Center's position on this matter is a chilling threat to freedom of expression is such a gross distortion of the situation that I wonder if the GSA has indeed made the "impressive strides on this campus" which Mr. Engelmayer attributes to it. Andrew B. Herrmann...
...upon others the need for the tolerance than Jews or homosexuals, both groups, with long his tones of discrimination, have made impressive strides, certainly on this campus. In seeking to secure their states, both groups recently sought either directly as in the PLO instance, or indirectly, as in the GSA case--to silence their critics. Neither, it seems, has learned a fundamental lesson that groups who preach tolerance cannot be in-tolerant towards opposing views without inviting a dangerous--and intolerant backlash...