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...Landry and his colleagues at Peninsula: "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone." Stephanie Jordan...
When I first saw the special double issue of Peninsula two weeks ago, I was upset. I was offended by the shattering pink triangle on the cover...
...horrified by Peninsula's faulty logic (Homosexuality is bad for the individual. Why? Because homosexuals are unhappy. Why are they unhappy? Because homosexuality is bad for the individual.), by its nonsequiturs (casual sex is bad; therefore, homosexuals are incapable of love), by its misuse of some statistics ("current" AIDS information published in 1983), by its omission of other statistics (the Center for Disease Control report that by the year 2000 AIDS will be as prevalent in the straight community as it is in the gay community), and, in some places, by its sheer idiocy (some of us homosexuals may think...
...cheered by Brown's editorial. Yes, it was similar in its numerous logical flaws to the Peninsula issue that cheered me. For example, Gomes says a certain use of scripture is illegitimate. Therefore, Brown writes, Gomes doesn't believe we should distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of scripture...
Brown's editorial is also similar to the Peninsula issue in that he asserts things that are simply wrong. According to Brown, Gomes says we have "no way of drawing any legitimate precept from the Bible of the Fathers." I don't know whose sermons Brown has been listening to. Certainly not Gomes's. I've heard every sermon preached in Memorial Church this year and I remember quite clearly hearing Gomes say not once but many times that the Bible is the source of moral precepts. The writers of Peninsula cannot both champion the cause of open debate...