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...assumption that bigotry would inform the media’s treatment of his alleged affair. Whereas older men who hit on younger women are thought of as sleazy (read: Bill Clinton), men who solicit young men are dubbed “lewd” or “perverted?? (Larry Craig, anyone...
...argument” reflects the fact that Pappin’s homophobia is not an argument, it is an article of faith. For the BGLTSA to list our top ten reasons why queer students are neither “immoral” nor “perverted?? nor “unnatural” would be unproductive and absurd. It would legitimize Pappin’s extremism by conceding that moral questions about homosexuality are in any way valid, or subject to rational debate. Frankly, we have better things...
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?...
...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...
...first, I could hardly contain my outrage at his implication that the administration should censure homosexual activity. I have heard homophobes use the words “immoral,” “unnatural” and “perverted?? before, but I never thought I would hear a Harvard student use such language in this context. And I certainly never expected to hear a student recommend that homosexuals be punished for their sexual orientation...
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