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The Reverend Peter J. Gomes, who died unexpectedly in 2011, was never easy to label. Conservative evangelicals, for instance, were quick to criticize the liberalism he sometimes displayed during his long tenure as the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard University—and yet a photograph of Reverend Billy Graham, hero to evangelicals across the world, towered above all others on the shelf behind Gomes’s stately office desk.
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Brian D. Ellison, “A House Divided: How 56 Pages Unleashed a Flood of Words,” The Harvard Crimson, November 22, 1991.
Sumner Anderson, “Gomes Should Resign,” Letter to the Editors, The Harvard Crimson, November 20, 1991.
Peter J. Gomes, “Why Are They So Scared,” The Harvard Crimson, November 18, 1991.
Reported in D. Richard De Silva, “New Group Pursues Gomes’ Resignation: Students Cite Minister’s View on Homosexuality,” The Harvard Crimson, February 20, 1992.
Ira E. Stoll, “President Defends Gomes from Attack: Student Organization Calls for Resignation,” The Harvard Crimson, February 21, 1992.
Peter J. Gomes, “Homophobic? Re-Read Your Bible,” The New York Times, August 17, 1992.
See Victor Paul Furnish, The Moral Teachings of Paul (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1988);
and John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Peter J. Gomes, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996), 158.
Sally Gearhart and William R. Johnson, Loving Women/Loving Men: Gay Liberation and the Church (San Francisco: Glide Publications, 1974), x.
John J. McNeill, The Church and the Homosexual (Boston: Beacon Press, 1993; repr., 1976), 197.
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Long, M.G. (2012). Postscript. In: Martin Luther King Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137275523_9
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