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...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...
...Karger is a Christian and a Harvard student, and as such, should be allowed to perform those rites and ceremonies he holds sacred under the roof of Memorial Church. I am also a Christian and a Harvard student. Leaving aside the question of whether members of other religious faiths have been or should be allowed to perform ceremonies in Memorial Church, what right has he to say that we are breaking with Christianity? My version of Christianity and his are very different. I do not presume to judge his creed as wrong; perhaps he could exhibit the same degree...
...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...
...such diverse ceremonies to take place, which certainly do not all fully comply with every literal word in the Bible, that it is unjust for Memorial Church to exclude homosexuals who wish to have their unions blessed in the Church, assuming those involved have a clergy member willing to perform the ceremony. Furthermore, the Church does receive some financial assistance from the University in terms of the maintenance of its buildings and grounds, which means that indirectly at least, students pay to support part of the Church. Therefore, it is clearly within the jurisdiction of the representatives of students...
...moved to a site closer to Moscow out of concerns about the Russian President. The trip will be Yeltsin's first trip abroad in nearly a year, after heart ailments and pneumonia in the last six months. Although the meeting is partially designed to show that Yeltsin can still perform his duties, the summit will be more than a photo op. On the table: the impending eastward expansion of NATO and Russia's finances. "The top issue on the agenda will be negotiations on a charter -- Russia wants to call it a treaty -- to regulate the relations between NATO...