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SOME articles in Peninsula attempt rational defenses of their moral disapproval. One piece goes to great lengths to argue that homosexuality and contraception are immoral because they are "inescapably unnatural." Abortion, the author argues, is "an act contrary to nature in its most basic sense."
But most of the articles don't even aim for rational persuasion--fallacious or not. The basic thrust of the magazine is not rigorous debate, but frightened reaction against "moral decay and degradation."
Beaty found the N.R.A. members to be "a lot of honest, decent and mostly rational people caught in a turmoil over a thorny, difficult social problem. That's exactly the kind of people who are working the other side of the street." Both sides will have a further opportunity to...
"Free speech is uniquely important to the University because we are a community committed to reason and rational discourse. Free interchange of ideas is vital for our primary function of discovering and disseminating ideas through research, teaching and learning."
"It would be a toss up between partly-rational-Harmonization and completely-partial-free-non-choice," the interviewee said.