Professional crazy person Jesse Morrell was right. The gays have taken over the Ivy League.

The Crimson reports that Harvard’s Memorial Church will soon echo with the strains of “Here Comes The Bride” for two very special undergraduates. And get this: they’re both men! The Cantab pioneers, Billy Stallings ’10 and Paul Nauert ’09, are engaged to marry at Harvard this summer, having forged their union under a star and bat-filled San Antonio sky earlier this year. Yes, you heard that right:

I knew at that moment as bats were flying overhead and the stars were coming out, and then he said, ‘Will you marry me?’

Satanic sky-rats: how romantic. (FYI, bats are the only flying animals that practice oral sex. Also: vampires!) But hold up! Stalling’s dad is a Reverend.

Hold up again! He’s really, really supportive… Take that Leviticus 18:22:

I think they’re perfectly matched. They’re compatible, terribly interested in what the other is doing, and they promote each other’s interests. They’re talking about adopting children and having a family.

Preach it, preacher-man! After all, shouldn’t this adorable pair have the same right as the rest of us to lock themselves in the loveless and sexless Dantesque dungeon that is monogamous marriage? (Exhibit A: my parents.)

Hetero-normativity aside, we totally endorse this couple’s patent adorableness. Comparing their poise and maturity to some of Harvard’s classy straight gentlemen—Exhibit B: Matt “my spooge tastes like unripe bananas” DiPasquale—these fellas pass with flying colors. (Rainbow joke immaturely intended).

Reality checks, awkwardness, envy and Frankie Valli after the jump.

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Yale may enjoy throwing students out just for kicks. But starting tomorrow and continuing till Thursday, the University Divinity School will be welcoming prominent Christian and Muslim scholars and leaders to participate in a series of public sessions to promote peace and understanding between the two religious groups.

Hosted by the Divinity School and sponsored by A Common Word, the conference hopes to “foster better understanding between Islam and the West.” A Common Word was founded last October by Muslim scholars and seeks to promote the two religions’ common values: love of God and love of neighbor.

From A Common Word’s official site:

Without peace and justice between these two religious communities, there can be no meaningful peace in the world. The future of the world depends on peace between Muslims and Christians…The Unity of God, the necessity of love for Him, and the necessity of love of the neighbour is thus the common ground between Islam and Christianity.

60 theologians began meeting this past Friday on Yale’s campus, and events open to the public begin Tuesday at 8AM. Schedule of events with keynote speakers after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »