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...locked up in a Chinese gulag, judged without trial to be a counter-revolutionary subversive. For months she was confined to a dank room the size of a bed, spending her days in solitary silence, enduring torture with an electric prod and the painful, gratuitous removal of bone marrow from her spine. Released in March 1990 after more than six years in prison, Zhang was denied the right to marry and, when she became pregnant, was ordered to have an abortion. Facing a future where the child she bore in secrecy would never have any rights, Zhang, with her lover...
...Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke's daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. "The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious...Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about...
...into the Old Testament that we are told that marriage is to be between men and women. Genesis 2:23-24 reads, "Then the man said, 'This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man leaves his father and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." There is no mention made of a man leaving his parents to be with another man. Indeed, the Old Testament penalty for homosexual sex is very harsh. Leviticus 20:13 declares...
...Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...
...Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...