Keep Extreme Views Out

To the editors:

For anyone on campus who read Rev. Fred Phelps’ “God hates fags” rhetoric and now wonders whether Christians really do think this way, I want to affirm that I—and I do not hesitate to add all Harvard Christians in my acquaintance—stand beside the LGBT community and most of America in unconditionally and vehemently denoucing Phelps’ reprehensible message of hate.

As a member of a Christian organization on campus, I am deeply troubled by Fifteen Minutes’ addition of the opinions of Phelps—who is in no way affiliated with Harvard or Harvard’s Christian groups—to last Thursday’s article. Phelps’ views are completely non-representative of the views of any Christian group on this campus. Most dismaying, their inclusion serves only to muddle the larger discussion—already complicated enough, as most involved will agree—of how homosexuals, Christians, and homosexual Christians relate to one another on campus and beyond.

There has been much talk in recent weeks about disassociating the position of extremists from the position of religious believers on campus. I am therefore surprised and disappointed that FM would take such liberties at the expense of evangelical Christians at Harvard.

Denise Jordan Rosetti ’02

Sept. 30, 2001

The writer is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship.