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What makes Brown's commentary so different from--and so much worse than--the Peninsula issue, though, is that it is motivated not by a desire to help people but by a desire to be cruel. The editorial is not an analysis of what he thinks is wrong with Gomes's talk; it is an opportunity for Chris to use his arrogant sarcasm and pretentious vocabulary ("unregenerately otiose"?) to be as vicious as he possibly...
...When the Peninsula came out, I kept my mouth shut, because, even though I was hurt, I believed that its writers really wanted to do good. Now that they seem to have descended into vicious personal attacks, though, I feel that I'm within the bounds of acceptable behavior in asking a favor of them...
...Peninsula, please shut up. I'd like to hear your message, but until you figure out how to preach it without resorting to fallacy or cruelty, please shut up. Joel Derfner...
...Anyone's taking me seriously is scary" (quoted from Robert Wasinger's letter, November 26) is, in fact, the most astute self-assessment yet made by a Peninsula writer and member of the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM), regarding his view of gay people...
Perhaps he should question his own need to defend himself when his views are attacked if he honestly feels there is no rational call for gays to defend themselves, and least of all through self-testimony, in light of Peninsula statements on the order of "homosexual acts are unworthy of a human being...and arises from a brutal and sub-human disposition...