Petitioners Calling For Harvard To Reinstate Christian Student Group

CAMBRIDGE — Harvard University's largest Christian faith organization has been under fire from administrators over the apparent sin of conducting itself according to core religious beliefs, and now a petition calling on the elite institution to lift its suspension of Harvard College Faith and Action has garnered nearly 8,000 signatures. 

The saga for HCFA began last semester, when the organization directed one of its female student leaders, an assistant Bible course leader, to step down after she became romantically involved with another female student. The student resigned from the organization in September, according to a Harvard Crimson report, and last month the school's student life office elected to place HCFA on a year-long "administrative probation."