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...writing in response to Randy A. Karger's piece in the Opinion section of the Crimson (Feb. 3). My first objection to this piece is quite simple. There is no need to write such a chastising piece, nor to put the subtitle "Council Means to Push the Homosexual Lifestyle on Christendom." All the Undergraduate Council did was pass a resolution that said that it, as a body, supported the rights of homosexual couples to have "same-sex blessing ceremonies" in Memorial Church. This is certainly not binding on the administrative board of Memorial Church--that was quite acknowledged...
...second and more serious problem with Mr. Karger's piece is that he asserts that Memorial Church cannot be used to perform same-sex blessing ceremonies without acting counter to its mission as a Christian church. Certainly, Mr. Karger's particular religious beliefs tell him that same-sex blessing ceremonies are sinful and immoral, but Memorial Church is a non-denominational Christian church...
...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...