Word: salients
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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...
...when considered closely, the media's argument still fails to persuade. The salient feature for Kennedy in 1960 was more likely dead voters in Chicago than intrepid youths casting their ballots. Florida is also swampy ground on which to place a soapbox. One vote in this election made no more difference than in 1960 because not all ballots were counted. This is not partisan rhetoric. Americans learned that in national elections large numbers of ballots are discarded or incorrectly tallied. Indeed, college students' frequent voting method, absentee ballots, are not opened in many towns unless the number of them...
...moment the most salient characteristic in human society is our infatuation with science. Yes, only infatuated, for we have not exchanged vows, we haven't committed to science "till death do us part." We have a puppy love; we like science because it gives us shiny things. Case in point: well over half of American adults do not believe that the human species descended from earlier forms of animal life, and yet nearly everyone has ridden in a vehicle powered by internal combustion...