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These "new natural lawyers" (as they style themselves)--whose arguments with respect to homosexuality are less sensational but more elaborate than those of my deservedly famous colleague--strikingly treat gay and lesbian sexual activity just like most forms of heterosexual activity: just like all recreational sex, all sex outside of marriage, all contracepted sex and sex not open to the good of procreation, including all contracepted sex between married couples. Finnis and George were, indeed, among the expert witnesses who testified in Colorado (and what follows is based on my own written testimony against Finnis...
...will be for precisely the same reasons that committed, loving gay couples have sex. Why are these good reasons for sterile or elderly married couples but not for gay and lesbian couples? In effect, gays can have sex in a way that is open to procreation, and to new life. They can be, and many are, prepared to engage in the kinds of loving relations that would result in procreation--were conditions different. Like sterile married couples, many would like nothing better...
...College's Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association was outraged by Mansfield's testimony and his later, similar comments to The Crimson. The group mobilized to counter Mansfield's views. But besides the meetings and posters, the BGLSA offered something that is too often missing during campus debates: a sincere defense of Mansfield's freedom of speech and, even more importantly, an invitation for him to discuss the issue...
...Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association makes an intellectual error by calling on the University to denounce Mansfield's comments and confirm its own policy of nondiscrimination. The BGLSA presumes that Harvard agrees with the views of its faculty until it proves otherwise by actively distancing itself from those views...
After Professor Harvey C. Mansfield called gay love "shameful" and inherently "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students' Association staged a protest, calling on the University to endorse homosexuality against moral views like Mansfield's. Though he defended Mansfield's right to free speech, BGLSA co-chair Bob E. Giannino '95 said "the University should publicly deplore his statements." Former BGLSA co-chair Rachel E. Cohen '94 also said she wanted the University officially to condemn Mansfield's views. All this was explicitly pretexted on the fact that Mansfield "was speaking not merely as a private...