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...position by Jamie Billett on Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's raucous claim that gays "undermine civilization" (Crimson, Oct. 22) is quaint but sadly mistaken...
...nothing shameful, nothing harmful" anymore? This is the question Christopher Brown poses in his metapsychological defense of Professor Mansfield's recent indictment of homosexuality. It is an interesting question, indeed a profound one, both for conservatives and liberals alike. Are we, as a society, no longer capable of shame? Brown would have us believe that shame ought to be reserved for matters of sex. It is in this notion that he squanders the value of his liberal education...
Shame, Christopher, is the emotion Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 should feel when--despite the opportunities this world has given him and the honors this university has bestowed upon him--he would place himself above others in the eyes of God. The question is not, should civil rights be extended to gays, lesbians or any sexual minority (which is perhaps an issue of valid political and legal debate). The question is how Mansfield could dare to presume to cast judgment upon an entire group of people--a group of people who have nothing more in common than...
...claims Harvey C. Mansfield finds admissible in a court of law: 1. She was wearing pants, so I assumed she was a lesbian. 2. The tenure process is socially unproductive because it does not result in the creation of children. 3. Single mothers do not deserve equal protection under the law--and they have no idea how unhappy they are. 4. The Hostage Crisis coincides with the admission, en masse, of Black students to Harvard. 5. If they kiss, the social order will be destroyed. 6. Prisoners of conscience don't know it, but they actually enjoy incarceration...
...testifying in favor of the Colorado amendment, Mansfield has done his moral duty as a scholar, and provided a model of real social responsibility which the over-whelmingly liberal academy might take to heart. So far from being ashamed or distancing itself from Mansfield, as the BGLSA has urged, Harvard should be proud. Thomas E. Woods, Jr. '94 Vice-President Harvard Republican Club