Word: banning
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Until Forbes' recent shift on immigration, there was nothing about his message or campaign that suggested the politics of division. He avoids the hot-button social issues harped on by his rivals: he would not ban abortion, gun control or affirmative action. He is a sincere seeker of answers, a man genuinely concerned about social pathologies. He cites Kemp's policies of enterprise zones and tenant control of public housing as partial solutions to inner-city devastation...
...slimmest of margins, traditionally Roman Catholic Ireland lifted its constitutional ban on divorce. The measure was fought by the Catholic Bishops' Conference; the Pope and Mother Teresa issued appeals. It gives 75,000 legally separated men and women the right to remarry...
...reading David B. Lat's column "Imposing Morality is Fun" (column, Nov. 28), I was struck not so much by the supposition that "all laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature," but rather by the morality of absolutism which his support for a ban on divorce demonstrates...
...course anyone wishing to remarry within a Christian church should be able to consider why the first marriage was unsuccessful and to give reasons why the new one will be. In many cases remarriage may not be advisable, but an absolute ban on divorce lacks true tolerance which is based on a sympathetic understanding of the natures and problems of real men and women. Abby Vigneron...
...election of Hitler to power while at the same time writing that "Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech." Such a statement sounds suspiciously like the philosophy of a Hitler or a Stalin--the very kind of people Ben-Shachar seeks to ban in his free society...