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...Professor Warren D. Goldfarb said, "It's not the University's concern. A professor is free to have whatever opinions he has and say them wherever he wants." Rather than ask for action from the University, it will prove more powerful for those who opposed Mansfield to home in on the inconsistencies of his position...
Even if we accept the principle that social worth is measured by the number of children couples have, it is false to assume gay couples don't have children. Mansfield's comments lead me to wonder what he thinks of the recent case where a judge took away a woman's child simply because she was a lesbian. In order to be consistent, Mansfield should advocate that the child should be returned to the lesbian couple. I'm sure the couple in question will not have to wait long for him to testify in their favor...
Although it may come as a shock to Mansfield, most of us are living in the late 20th century where heterosexual sex is not necessary for procreation. Mansfield said that homosexual couples do not have social value because they do not have children. I'm sure he'll be relieved to know that lesbians and gay couples can and do have children through artificial insemination and adoption. Would Mansfield consider heterosexual couples who can not or choose not to have children devoid of social value...
...issue of children aside, Mansfield says that gays undermine civilization by depriving men and women of the chance to civilize each other by living with each other. Even if he were right, homosexuals will always be a small minority of the population; Mansfield need not worry that there won't be any heterosexuals to 'civilize' each other. Furthermore, sexual orientation has little bearing on how aware the opposite sex is "of what a woman especially knows and what a man especially knows." There are plenty of heterosexual relationships which are far from 'civilizing.' Partners who abuse their spouses...
...Mansfield claims that "kinky sexual practices" of homosexuals are "shameful" and that their love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated." Some gays do speak of shame and frustration in trying to come to terms with their sexual orientation. This, however, is due to standards of behavior forced upon them arbitrarily by society; not by any inherent moral flaws. There may even be a genetic explanation for the occurrence of homosexuality in populations. Professor E.O. Wilson in his book, On Human Nature, says that there is, "a strong possibility that homosexuality is normal in a biological sense, that...