Clifford S. Davidson '02
March 13, 2001
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Decision is Personal
To the editors:
Stephen E. Sachs '02 raises a number of poignant questions surrounding what he terms "the morality debate" concerning the moral nature of homosexuality. This central question is, as he phrases it: "...what is it about identity, especially one connected with a set of actions instead of anatomy or skin color, that shields it from moral scrutiny?" Mr. Sachs derives this question by analogy, citing rapists and kleptomaniacs as examples of persons who "also have strong desires for immoral acts"; to read this makes me wonder whether he has not already answered this question for himself.
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