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Gladden J. Pappin ’04 has claimed that homosexual behavior is “immoral,” “perverted” and “unnatural.” His opponents have now had over a month to devise a well-reasoned, substantive refutation to what is an obvious fallacy. A refutation, perhaps, along these lines: “Pappin’s puritanical obsessions are baseless because he condemns other people’s private, mutually consensual sexual activities, which have no bearing on his own well-being.” Pappin?...
...response to Pappin’s letter on campus, if indicative of our respect for minority opinions, has been frightening. Undergraduate Council member Joshua A. Barro ’05 called Pappin a “lonely idiot,” and Mather House BGLTS advisor Peter B. Green demanded that a University official reprimand Pappin for his opinions, arguing that it was time “for a real representative of the University to step...
This blatant call for the suppression of minority opinions resulted from a tutor-sponsored talk on “tolerance,” and Green’s eagerness to 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...
...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 own way. What frightens the legions of tolerance so much is Pappin’s vision of Harvard as a campus of moral absolutes where...
Green said that after speaking with students frustrated by the lack of official response to the Pappin letter, he felt it was time “for a real representative of the University to step...