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...issue's appearance, students and faculty members came forward to declare their homosexuality. But it was Gomes' revelation that triggered by far the most heated response. Last month a 50- member student group called Concerned Christians at Harvard was formed for the specific purpose of winning Gomes' resignation as chaplain. It launched a campaign of prayer vigils, publicity and pamphleteering. "The reason we are asking Gomes to step down is not because he is homosexual," says founder Sumner Anderson, "but because he teaches that homosexuality is not sinful within the Christian church...
Last week there were rumblings among a few alumni that Gomes must go, or "Harvard fund-raising efforts will be significantly handicapped," predicts Gavin Quill, class of '85, a marketing analyst in Boston who wants Gomes out. But so far the chaplain's job does not appear to be in jeopardy. The conservative Christians are far outnumbered -- or at least outmaneuvered -- by Harvard's well-organized gay and lesbian community. At Harvard Divinity School, a bastion of liberalism, Dean Ronald Thiemann argues that Concerned Christians expresses "little more than a literalist interpretation of Scripture, without any theological sophistication." Anderson scoffs...
RELIGION Conservatives want to remove Harvard's gay chaplain...
...Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that Pennsylvania had violated federal grant regulations by spending monies tagged for research overhead on alumni activities, art maintenance and the Chaplain's account, according to a statement from the university...
...year later, the church, to which 97% of Poland's 38 million people belong, is omnipresent and, in the view of some, virtually omnipotent. Bishops and priests bless the armed forces, schools and factories. The newly created post of superior chaplain to the army has been given the rank of general. To mark the 200th anniversary of the country's first liberal constitution earlier this month, President Lech Walesa, a devout Catholic, skipped ceremonies at parliament and instead visited the national shrine of the Black Madonna at Jasna Gora...