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...editors: David Golding’s comment (“A Defense of Prejudice,” Nov. 2) opens a very interesting line of argument which seems at first to be a breath of fresh air. Certainly any person is free to think about any religion as he will and to communicate his thoughts freely. Golding reasons that a person may communicate his feelings about a religion by voting against an adherent of a religion which the voter holds to be erroneous or unhealthy or just plain wrong. Yet Golding’s argument jars common sense. The wise...
...editors: David Golding, in his comment of Nov. 2 (“A Defense of Prejudice”), states that he “embraced” his prejudice against voting people with certain religious affiliations into political office. He then justifies his stance by saying that his prejudice is “against ideas, not people.” I think Golding is wrong. He is prejudiced not against ideas, but against generic labels that are applied to people. If, as he purportedly believes, religious affiliation is such a good predictor of political values, then he might expect that...
Despite the stigma attached to her party affiliation and preppy media image, Kerry Healey is a true moderate. Support responsible and balanced government by voting for her on Nov...
...editors: Re: “Twice Victimized,” op-ed, Nov. 2: The recent call by the co-directors of Harvard Students for Choice for “limits” on postering by Harvard Right to Life (HRL) only further confirms me in my belief that those who claim to support free expression, except when it is hurtful, quite simply do not get it. The price of living in an open society is that we are liable to find ourselves contradicted, offended, and distressed at every turn. We pay this price because we are aware...
...sure whether David Golding was being deliberately provocative or just asinine in his comment “A Defense of Prejudice” (Nov. 2). Evidently, he subscribes to some bizarre theory of psychology according to which belonging to a religious group is equivalent to renouncing independent thought. It should be fairly obvious that some people consider themselves Muslims, Mormons, Jews, Catholics, etc., even though they may not agree with certain tenets of theology espoused by their coreligionists. At the same time, many religions (like Islam and Judaism) incorporate several different streams and lack central religious authorities...