Posted on 11/20/2001 11:40:09 AM PST by RobertBauman
HARVARD SIGNS UP: In a fascinating sign of the times, Harvard's new president, Lawrence Summers gave a speech last week - barely covered in the national media - that seems to me a cultural milestone. "The post-Vietnam cleavage between coastal elites and certain mainstream values is a matter of great concern and has some real costs," Summers said in an interview with the Crimson. "The United States is engaged in a conflict that is very widely seen as between wrong and right, fear and hope, and is without the moral ambiguity of Vietnam," he went on. Hard to see his predecessor saying something that bold. Summers even brought up the thorny issue of allowing ROTC back on campus since it was banished in the 1970s. The military's policy of persecuting gay servicemembers is one reason a reconciliation hasn't yet taken place. But Summers clearly wants a rapprochement. "[This crisis] provides an opportunity for some reconciliation of values," he added. With any luck, the military will at some point return the favor. We need our elite universities providing the military and intelligence services with the best the country can offer. And we need a military that will not destroy talent for an anachronistic relic of discrimination.
That doesn't even make sense. Funny how Sullivan tries to slip in this comment as though his lifestyle is somehow equivalent with true minorities like Blacks. Andrew makes some good points sometimes, but this time he is way off base. Our military would surely be weakened if we allowed homosexuals to flamboyently display their lifestyle while currently serving with other men in the showers, bunks, and on deployment. Common sense will tell you that.
Colin Powell: “I think it would be prejudicial to good order and discipline to try to integrate gays and lesbians in the current military structure. Skin color is a benign, nonbehavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the most profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument. African-American leaders were telling me that they resented having the civil rights crusade hijacked by the gay community for its ends."
Source: My American Journey, by Colin Powell, p. 533 Jan 1, 1995
Those students weaned on the politically correct pablum of the Ivies would not be my first choice to lead my child over the hill.
The President of Harvard may be well intentioned, but I'd decline his offer. Better to have his best and brightest go into the sciences and develop better weapons for our forces and better medicines to defend against the consequences of insane hatred.
Sorry, just had to rant a little. :)
Look at his behavior. Do you really want to be on the be on the same side as Mr. Sullivan.
Do Republican need the Republican Unity Coalition?
This is Homosexual Disinformation 101, divide and conquer. We have been fighting for years not only the democRATs but the RINO Republicans. They are in every group. They are the first to volunteer and the last to do anything. We need to get rid of these people so we can mount an effective campaign in the year 2002.
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