Word: karger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writing in response to Randy Karger's piece entitled "Appropriating the Pulpit" in the Feb. 3rd issue of the Crimson. In this piece, Mr. Karger denounces the Undergraduate Council for passing a resolution that encourages Memorial Church to "sanction administering same-sex blessing ceremonies at Memorial Church by clergy willing to perform such ceremonies...
...necessary to first correct a vital factual flaw in Mr. Karger's article. Mr. Karger writes that the Undergraduate Council has no business calling upon Harvard's non-discrimination policies as justification for why Memorial Church should allow same-sex blessing ceremonies because "then the church should not only allow same-sex blessing ceremonies but also stop discriminating against non-Christian religions and Jewish and Muslim services as well." In fact, Muslim and Jewish ceremonies have been performed in the church on numerous occasions for both holidays and weddings...
...Karger quotes extensively from the Bible to come to the conclusion that "those with homosexual desires" are sinners who "face a very powerful obstacle indeed, but no less than any other sinners, they are called to overcome...
...Karger, If you would like to consider homosexuality a sin, you are entitled to do so, but please do not preach that nobody at Harvard can disagree. --Sam Spital...
...Randy A. Karger, a junior living in Winthrop House, is a member of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod...