Coexisting in Glorified Quality

At the end of January, the Yale Daily News ran a story with the headline: "Misogyny claim leveled at Frat. Since then, YDN has run a series of articles and opinion pieces reporting similar incidents of harassment and misogyny on the Yale campus (for example) For many, the important question is how to move forward from these events. The Women's Center has pursued the possibility of a harassment suit. The Fraternity has issued an apology. The Graduate School sent out an email inviting members of the Graduate School community to participate in a series of panel discussions on the subject of hate.

As I read the articles and heard friends discuss what has gone on, it is so clear that right human footsteps will ameliorate the situation, but more is needed for genuine healing. Rather than human opinions and self-justification, there is a need for pure divine Love. Rather than ignoring the problem or willing it to go away, we need to pro-actively acknowledge the law of harmony, holding every single divine idea in right relationship to one another, in one accord. As Christian Scientists, we can respond not with a sense of equality based on anatomy and gender construction, but equality based on the divine rights of man-- the male and female of expressed in every idea, in complete balance.

As usual, Mary Baker Eddy's writings shed a divine light on this issue: "Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God." (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures 516:18) This is the standard for tolerance, respect, and healing.