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Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. '53 has once again exercised his first amendment rights in a way that infuriates certain groups of students on campus. He claims that gay sex is "shameful," that gay love is "imperfect and stunted and frustrated," and that "gays eventually undermine civilization" because men and women civilize each other by living together. As in the past Mansfield makes sweeping generalization based not on any sort of systematic study or research, but on his personal opinion...
...debate sparked by what he said initially devolved into one over Mansfield's status as a professor at Harvard. The first response of BGLSA Co-Chair Dennis K. Lin to Mansfield's testimony in Colorado is a good example. "That remark is absolutely offensive and repulsive and we're ashamed he's a professor here...
This sort of remark only serves Mansfield's interests. It allows him to wrap himself in the First Amendment and forces people who disagree with Mansfield to defend him on the grounds of freedom of speech...
...more effective to counter Mansfield's ignorant arguments than to question his position at the University. Lin's initial response, "I think the University should look into this and react to this," was totally unproductive. It was disappointing that a potential voice of reason did not attack Mansfield's arguments on their own merits. Fortunately, the BGLSA has since defended Mansfield's freedom of speech and begun to focus on protesting the content of what he said...
...group plans to increase its posteringeffort with signs that feature the names ofprominent bisexual, gay or lesbian historicalpersonalities in the middle of a quotation thatreads: "Professor Mansfield thinks [historicalfigure] undermines civilization...