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O’Donnell’s Anti-Gay Politics Fit In Well At Claremont Institute

Andrew Belonsky October 12, 2010

The Institute, which publishes the right-wing Claremont Review of Books, was founded in 1979 by students of Harry Jaffa, a philosophy professor who studied under neocon patriarch Leo Strauss and the author of Barry Goldwater’s famous call for “extremism in defense of liberty.” The institute praises extremism in its own right, this year bestowing its Statesmanship Award on Dick Cheney.
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But it’s Jaffa who has shaped the culture of the Institute—so much so that Institute followers are nicknamed “Jaffanese Americans”—and one of the core values he’s inculcated is a venomous homophobia.

In a series of similar essays stretching over decades, Jaffa’s chief mode is using Lincoln or other founding fathers to further antigay arguments, charging… that the same natural understanding of morality that declares slavery wrong, because of the natural understanding of shared humanity, also must declare homosexuality wrong, because of the natural understanding of differences between the sexes. If sodomy is not condemned as unnatural, Jaffa wrote in a 1993 debate over a book review, then nothing is unnatural, and nothing is wrong.

 

Sounds like O’Donnell could have been headmistress at Claremont. Perhaps people are right about O’Donnell’s fellow Tea Party member, Carl Paladino: he’s part of a broader anti-gay movement hiding behind fiscal conservatism.

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Two subjects, education and sex, have dominated media coverage of Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s campaign.

With regard to education, there were allegations that the Republican lied about attending Oxford University and Claremont College on a virtual resume, a resume her campaign dismissed as a fraud. Then, earlier this week, O’Donnell touched on the topic in a campaign commercial, thus producing even more articles about her academic career.

The press has been equally voracious in investigating O’Donnell’s bizarre sexual politics, including the idea that homosexuality is an “identity disorder” and that masturbation’s sinful.

O’Donnell’s educational and sexual politics are not mutually exclusive, however, and certainly converged during the candidate’s time as a Lincoln Fellow at the right wing Claremont Institute. The Nation‘s Kathryn Joice helps explain why, AFTER THE JUMP…

Topics: Books, Education, Politics, towleroad More Posts About: 2010 Election, Carl Paladino, Carl Paladino, Christine O'Donnell, Christine O'Donnell, Christine O'Donnell Education, Christine O'Donnell News, Claremont Institute, education, gay rights

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