Word: mansfield
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...also a tad confused by something else the Herr Professor said, namely that one of the "proofs" of heterosexual superiority is procreation. Heterosexuals have children; homosexuals do not. The mind boggles. I am sure Professor Mansfield's claims will come as quite a shock to the thousands of gay men and lesbians in this country who do in fact have children. Equally shocked will be the countless heterosexuals who have no plans to "breed." Unfortunately, Mansfield has confused the charge to reproduce the species (a charge, by the way, which an over populated planet might well wish to apply with...
...behalf of Harvard-Radcliffe's bisexual, gay, and lesbian community, we feel compelled to respond to Professor Harvey Mansfield's recent Evan v. Romer testimony, which branded gay practices as "shameful," gay love as inherently "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," and the presence of a gay community as "undermin [ing] civilization." Such statements are fully within his rights to make, since Professor Mansfield, like all Americans, is guaranteed freedom of speech by the First Amendment...
...same token, we have the right to denounce his testimony as irresponsible, insulting and false. Furthermore, given that Mansfield was addressing not passers by in the Square but a judge and jury which will decide whether or not Colorado gays will have rights, and given that Mansfield was speaking not merely as a private citizen but as a tenured Harvard professor whose words carry the weight of the University's implicit approval, we feel that we have an urgent responsibility to react publicly to Mansfield's remarks...
...Mansfield unleashed a stream of arbitrary adjectives about gays and gay love--"shameful," "stunted," and "irresponsible," to name a few--without bothering to put forth data that supports his arguments. On what basis is Mansfield qualified to make sweeping generalizations about the sex lives of bisexuals, gays, and lesbians? Has he done extensive research on the subject, tracing the course of gay relationships and interviewing same-sex partners...
...Mansfield wants to characterize all gays as "unhappy and irresponsible," that is his right; but if he is going to get up on the stand and introduce himself as a Harvard professor before he makes such characterizations, he had best be prepared to display the kind of scholarship that gives this University's name its clout...