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...loose with the exact identity of these opponents, potentially leading the reader to believe that the BGLTSA may advocate such censorship. This implication is simply false. The BGLTSA has not gone on record to ask that Pappin retract his statements, nor have we criticized The Crimson for printing Pappin??s letter (Op-ed, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality”, Dec. 9). It is irresponsible for Smith to make this position anything other than crystal-clear...
...silence Pappin should cause us all to wonder just what sort of tolerance these decriers of hate speech have in mind. On the surface, Green and the other tutors who sponsored the meeting are advocating respect for people’s differences. But in reality, their disrespect for Pappin??s right to disagree with their vision of inclusiveness indicates a dangerous and corrupted definition of tolerance: respect only for opinions consistent with one’s own. It is precisely this construction of tolerance that makes liberals’ frequent calls for tolerance classes and sensitivity education...
...more interesting debate that emerges from Pappin??s letter, which called on administrators to enforce “moral decency” at Harvard, is whether morality is absolute and who should set moral standards at Harvard. If those who would ferret out “bigotry” from the darkest recesses of our community have their way, we will never have common ground for discussing morality. Liberal opponents of Pappin will doubtless claim that they are moral relativists, tolerant of all belief systems, but in fact these petulant liberals are just moral absolutists who want their...
Members of the BGLTSA have also demonstrated their own refusal to engage the substance of Pappin??s argument. At a Dec. 11 meeting in response to the letter, they suggested that the letter was a sign of escalating “homophobia” at Harvard. To further draw attention to the problem of homophobia, on one of the most accepting and inclusive campuses in the United States no less, they distributed signs reading “BGLTQ Safe Space,” for the few courageous advocates of tolerance among us to display on our doors...
...true irony of the whole Pappin controversy is that, if the BGLTSA and our tolerant tutors were to take down the meaningless signs and go after the substance of Pappin??s letter, they would win. Pappin denounces homosexual acts as “perverted” in support of his larger point: that Harvard College should “act in loco parentis by upholding for us…a moral framework...