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Liebert writes that "the most common condemnation of homosexuality stems from religious faith"--but what of the millions of people of faith of all sexual orientations who support gays and lesbians? Members of the more than 300 parishes of the Metropolitan Community Church, a predominantly gay Protestant denomination, might be surprised to hear that religious leaders are hostile to gay civil rights. So might Episcopalians, Unitarians, Lutherans and Reform Jews, many of whose American leaders have embraced the gay members of their congregations. Even the Roman Catholic bishops of America issued a pastoral letter last year calling for parents...
...your article titled "Knowles: Serving Students Is Priority," (Oct. 28) it was reported that Harvard requires no mandatory sexual harassment and rape education for first-years during Orientation Week. However, there is such a mandatory program for all first-year students which was first implemented last year. It is called the "Safe Community" program, and it covers issues of rape, sexual assault, alcohol and the resources on campus where one can find help and support when faced with such problems. (The Crimson wrote a story on this safety program in its registration issue.) In fact, the program has been expanded...
...systems meant to handle stress. And she chronicles the problems that researchers have, even today, in getting institutions to take the problem seriously. Two scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, were stymied when they attempted to undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told by NIMH officials, as funding for the project dried up. Strong doesn't advocate a particular therapeutic approach--though, like Levenkron, she prefers coddling to the tougher tactics...
Your article "Beyond The Gender Myths" [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 19] quotes an educator who imagines that a Utopia can be created in which "sexual stereotypes don't shape education." This assumes that gender influences on parents, teachers, peer groups, media and writers about the subject of education have disappeared and that academic skills and interests are now present in pristine condition. As everyone knows, we have not yet reached this state. Single-sex education works because it gives girls a few valuable years in which to recover confidence and feel that they can make a difference in a culture that...
Historians have long debated whether THOMAS JEFFERSON had a sexual relationship with one of his slaves, SALLY HEMINGS. Now we have an answer. Retired pathologist EUGENE FOSTER collected blood samples from 14 men, black and white, who claim to be descended from Jefferson. The distinctive, largely unchanging Y (male) chromosomes of Jefferson's white descendants, Foster writes in this week's Nature, almost precisely match those of descendants of Hemings' last son ESTON, who was born at Monticello in 1808. They do not match those of her first son, long thought to be Jefferson's, or those of Jefferson...