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...think homosexuality is in any way "wrong" or "hurtful." And Gomes himself has been a valuable member of the community. Still, we must object to the continued existence of institutionalized Christianity at Harvard. The policy of mixing academics with religion should end. It belies the ideal of a "secular" University and is simply unfair to non-Christians. One option is for Memorial Church to become an ecumenical religious center for all students...
Clearly, Harvard is no longer the Christian fortress of the past. But neither is it the bastion of atheism that some claim it to be. More than 350 years after the founding of the school, the tension between its sacred and secular sides has yet to be resolved...
...University is a secular community. Religion takes place within it, but not especially supported by it," he says...
Finally, it is important to realize that the purchase of the kosher toaster was legitimate even on secular, egalitarian grounds. Jewish students pay the same amount for their food as everyone else; one toaster oven and a little bit of kosher food will not even begin to compensate them for the amount of money they waste each year eating tuna fish in the dining hall...
...made every effort to standardize life and co-opt Islamic culture. The abrupt end of Moscow's power has left a yawning political and spiritual vacuum. Since most of the region's Muslims have predominantly Turkic ethnic roots, the tug is between two versions of the Islamic state: the secular, Westernized Turkey and the radical, anti-Western Iran...