Word: lgbt
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...short, the bill is homophobic. A council that endorses homophobic legislation is a homophobic council. A homophobic council cannot claim to represent Harvard's LGBT community or the scores of students on this campus who thankfully take non-discrimination a lot more seriously than their "elected" leaders...
...decide when discrimination is unacceptable on all terms. A non-discrimination policy that does not set limits on a discriminatory organization, even one committed to the defense of the nation, is like a drag queen without her spikes. Many have argued that the existing policy privileges the LGBT community, at the expense of ROTC, committing "ideological" discrimination. Quite the contrary. Nondiscrimination policies protect specific classes of people for good reason: to prevent oppression. Nondiscrimination policies require the ethical courage to limit organizations which, no matter how noble we imagine them to be on other fronts, violate the principles...