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...failed to accurately represent the Lord and to fulfill the commandment to love others as ourselves.' STATEMENT FROM BOB JONES UNIVERSITY, apologizing for its refusal to admit black students until 1971 and for its previous ban on interracial dating...
...despite the good news for gays contained in the ruling, the decision is hardly the last word on the issue. The state has vowed to appeal, and the issue is likely to end up before the Florida Supreme Court, which upheld the ban once before in 1995. On the federal level, the U.S. Supreme Court has already let stand lower court rulings that upheld Florida's law, the nation's strictest ban on gay adoption. (See a video on the backlash against gay marriage in Florida...
That disparity is especially apparent when it comes to lung cancer. The report showed that lung-cancer incidence and death rates across the country varied widely, depending on the existence of smoking bans and the amount of state taxes on cigarettes. Data show, for example, that California, which was the first state to adopt a public-smoking ban, had the greatest decline in lung-cancer death rates in the U.S. - 2.8% per year from 1996 through 2005, which was twice the decline of many Midwestern and Southern U.S. states. Kentucky, which has low excise taxes on cigarettes and only partial...
Chanting “Gay, straight, black, white, marriage is a civil right,” around 100 protesters marched to Harvard Square after gathering outside of Cambridge City Hall yesterday afternoon in protest to Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage approved by California voters passed earlier this month. The rally in Central Square, which featured speakers including state representatives and past and present mayors of Cambridge, emphasized the city’s example in legalizing gay marriage and advocated spreading the “sweet wine of freedom” across the country. Cambridge was the first...
...eight against the Bulldogs.The last time either team won seven out of eight meetings in the storied rivalry before Saturday? It was 1909.That was also during a time when Harvard still attracted the best athletes in the country, long before its demotion to Division I-AA and its subsequent ban from the subdivision’s playoffs.And perhaps it is that fact that makes the scope of Pizzotti’s career all the more notable. Never the most athletic guy on the field, Pizzotti waited in the wings for Harvard record-holders like Fitzpatrick to graduate, played alongside...