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...While McFadden begins and ends his piece by criticizing radical activism for AIDS, his real issue is the moral legitimacy of homosexuality. When he attempts to draw parallels between smokers and homosexuals he displays his moral contempt rather than his intelligence. This comparison has no place within a reasoned debate. To imply that gays and lesbians actively choose to be criticized and discriminated against is folly. But whether or not they choose thier sexual orientation, that should not compel any state to condemn an act of loving between two consenting adults...
...suggesting that homosexuality ought to be regulated and prohibited like prostitution McFadden misses the point entirely. He writes, "Nobody has a 'right' to practice 'sodomy' any more than one has a right to play 'checkers.'" By this logic, I must ask whether he has a right to practice heterosexuality, or is that also an act that the government and society ought "discourage and curtail if necessary...
Homosexuality is a contentious issue, but we must face that tension not with moral absolutism but with "tolerance and dialogue." Mr. McFadden, while expressing his moral positions and advocating dialogue, does nothing but chip away from the bedrock of toleration on which this country was supposedly founded. --Alex-Handrah Aime...
...reference to Christopher McFadden's opinion piece, "Quilts and the Moral Fabric," Oct. 17: Let's get to the point. AIDS-related sicknesses have taken the lives of more than 25 million people worldwide since its appearance in the early 1980s. Approximately 50 people--straight, gay, lesbian, transgender/sexual, poor, rich, white latina/o, black, Asian, Native American U.S. and foreign-born--will be injected or diagnosed with HIV today. AIDS is not to be belittled or mocked. It is a disease which touches many if not all of our lives; it takes many of our lives...
...found McFadden's opinion not only stigmatizing of those of us who are HIV-positive here at Harvard and elsewhere, but also racist, classist and clearly homophobic. He suggested that any sexual orientation other than "straight" is immoral and abnormal, when he has not even bothered to question the internal and external battles which bisexuals, lesbians, gays, transgenders and straight activits fought in the mid-1980s, without which we wouldn't be this far in AIDS research. Nobody has a "right" to judge our identities, just as no one has a "right" to refuse further research into AIDS prevention: Being...