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...Gomes at last sets the Christian free to live by that principle which Paul was too timid to approve: "let us continue in sin, that grace may abound." A great victory, indeed, one long sought after, and one not unworthy so great a knight of Christ as Harvard's Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
...system might imagine that at least as much bibliolatry is involved in embracing the former as the latter. But if self-consistency (as Gomes acutely suggests) is too much to expect of the Holy Spirit, surely we would be unreasonable to demand it too rigorously of Harvard's Plummer professor...
...staff of Peninsula anticipated some criticism of its magazine. But Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes provided an unexpected twist in BGLSA's Friday rally...
...Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister of Memorial Church, Gomes is one of the most respected members of the Harvard community. Thus I was shocked by his statements at a recent BGLSA rally. He not only condemned Peninsula's articles as "wicked writing," but also publicly acknowledged his own homosexuality. As a Christian and a member of Memorial Church, this was one of the most disturbing events in my four years at Harvard...
...greatly dismayed that the most prominent Christian on campus has such unorthodox views. At the rally, Gomes claimed that in terms of Christian teaching, Peninsula "got it wrong" and he was gong to "get it right." He cited his position as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals as authority to declare that homosexual behavior is "reconcilable" with Christianity. To put it bluntly, he is wrong...