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...Salient, Flare and on this page, there has been a running debate concerning the morality of homosexuality. Both Flare and David B. Orr '01, who wrote as a guest columnist for the Salient, argued that it is time for our society to move past arguing whether or not homosexuality and homosexuals are moral. In his column last week, Stephen E. Sachs '02 argued that liberals should participate in this debate, because refraining makes liberals appear too timid to engage in the intellectual combat of these debates and because given the lack of logically consistent arguments against homosexuality, liberals would...
With the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill finally up for debate in the Senate next week, the nation's attention has turned once more to soft money. Like any salient Washington "hot topic," the question of who can donate how much to political campaigns is busy making the Sunday morning talk-show rounds, where the pundits explain the basics: that "soft money" consists of unregulated donations to political parties, funds that individuals and organizations can contribute in unlimited amounts to the party of their choice, provided that the party does not then earmark that money to promote specific candidates...
These questions may be important ones, but they will always skirt the surface. The real debate over homosexuality--whether or not it is morally acceptable--has been by and large suppressed, its undercurrents occasionally bubbling over into the pages of the Salient or letters to the editor. Though homosexuality is still a lightning rod in national politics, the morality debate is regarded on this campus as if it had been settled decades ago and needs no further examination. This reluctance to engage the question gives the liberal position a reputation for weakness, and it does Harvard's gay students...
...ward off such a view, some have simply declared homosexuality out of bounds for moral discussion. David B. Orr '01, in a guest column for the Salient, said he was "past" the morality debate and "appalled" by the Salient's indecision on the issue; former BGLTSA co-chair Michael K.T. Tan '01 has written that, "Queerness is a way of being; it's about whom and how you love and not debatable because of ethical, rather than anatomical, reasons." But what is it about an identity, especially one connected with a set of actions instead of anatomy or skin color...
...good) is difficult to discern. Even harder is how to justify in this context the rhythm method or sex with an infertile spouse; to do so, conservatives have fallen back on ennobling heterosexuality per se, calling it a "unique two-in-one flesh communion" or invoking, as did Salient publisher Bronwen C. McShea '02, the union of Christ and His Church. Looking for good metaphors is a silly way to go about moral reasoning, and with legions of gender theorists and lit-crit folks in the wings, it seems inevitable that equally good metaphors will eventually crop...