Word: argumentative
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...Bush v. Gore. At the end of five tense postelection weeks, the court issued an unsigned 5-4 opinion that stopped the recounting in Florida, throwing the election to Bush. Rehnquist worked intently behind the scenes to assemble a majority consensus. The underpinning of that decision--an equal-protection argument that would normally be anathema to conservatives--was described even by many Republican lawyers as being weak and unsustainable as a precedent...
...prepared for the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board by a strategy coordinator for "unreached people groups" in Africa's Horn describes his experience in a country where, he claims, "the majority of believers in Jesus Christ were systematically hunted down and martyred." Such perils support the missionary argument that some Muslims remain in the fold less out of faith than out of fear. But the persecution poses for evangelists an additional and potentially embarrassing problem of relative risk, given that (notwithstanding the four recent deaths) converts are in far greater jeopardy than those who brought them to Christ...
...clergy. The Church of England is embroiled in another anguished dispute that pits liberals against conservatives and evangelicals, and threatens to split the 70-million-strong worldwide Anglican Communion apart. The trigger: Bishop of Oxford Richard Harries' appointment of a gay man as Bishop of Reading. Arguments over homosexuality in the priesthood have simmered for years, even as a blind eye has been turned to the fact that some members of the clergy are gay. But the appointment in May of Jeffrey John, canon theologian at London's Southwark Cathedral and a gay-rights advocate who's been...
...Officers were sent to Anderson Bridge to investigate the well-being of two individuals involved in an argument. During a brief field interview, they checked the parties for wants and warrants. Officers sent them on their...
...Abbas's position is premised on convincing militants their armed struggle is a dead end. Which it almost certainly is. Unfortunately for him, however, the militants can turn the argument around, and ask just where the road map leads. And right now, he can't convince them even that it leads to an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, on most or all of the West Bank and Gaza emptied of the hated settlements, much less that it addresses longstanding Palestinian shibboleths as the "right of return" of refugee families who fled Israel in 1948. So, despite...