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...Many old allies, Williams admits, saw his shift on gays as a "betrayal." One British gay-rights activist snapped: "I hope he likes his newfound friends." But in fact, he has few on the right. "He's a very courteous man," says Morgan. "Sometimes the nuanced way in which he says things is lost on people." Certainly it is lost on archconservative Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has said that God regards homosexuality as the equivalent of humans having sex with various animals, and who has commented, "We don't have to go through Canterbury to get to Jesus...
...demands that he express "where the consensus of our Church is," rather than press for change. Even though Williams himself doesn't see sexuality as of "first-order" theological importance, he believes so many Christians do that pro-gay measures must be preceded by a broad shift in consensus. He portrays the U.S. church as having failed at this - and Robinson's election as perhaps dangerously myopic. Williams reports complaints from Egyptian Christians that their churches are being denounced - or, he hints, threatened - by Muslim clergy because of same-sex relationships, even though the local Christians themselves have never accepted...
...According to Petersen, the slew of new social spaces demonstrates the great need on campus for “universally accessible spaces”—perhaps indicating a desire for a shift away from the final clubs that have long been a hallmark of the Harvard social scene...
...shift may not be permanent. William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 notes that Harvard will bring back Early Action if, after several years, the program is seen as necessary “to preserve the quality of our student body...
...There have been countless Friday or Saturday nights out when I’ve inquired about Sarkar’s whereabouts with the hopes that he might join me in drinking. Invariably he’d be unavailable because he had already committed to working an overnight shift at UniLu, Harvard’s student-run homeless shelter in the basement of University Lutheran Church. Since sophomore year he’s been a director of UniLu, sacrificing his Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks to work shifts that were short-staffed. For Sarkar, public service is not merely an extracurricular: it?...