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There are some, however, who might question the worth of his inheritance. The revivalist, traditionalist branch of American Christianity that Billy Graham led from the obscurity in which it had languished roughly since the 1925 Monkey Trial is now the most vital and aggressive spiritual force on the national landscape. A 4,000-respondent poll by the University of Akron lists Evangelical Protestant as the most common religious self-identification in the U.S. (26%), followed by Catholic (23%) and mainline Protestant (17%). Beliefs closely associated with Evangelicalism--that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ, and that the Bible...
According to the bill the council sent to Lewis, the review committee would be a special branch of the COHL and would include three students...
...done. Having crushed the system of segregation, they believed that equality and racial prejudice would soon follow. Unfortunately, proponents of prejudice have moved into academia, as their forbears did in the late 19th century, and are leading the way towards re-establishing separate and unequal societies through the legislative branch of the state and federal governments. --Joshua Bloodworth...
...court didn't realize it either," he says. Ten years after Brown, when only 2% of black children in the South attended schools with whites, the court announced, "The time for mere 'deliberate speed' has run out." In 1968 the court declared that discrimination must be "eliminated root and branch." In 1971, noting that about 40% of American schoolchildren routinely rode buses to and from school anyway, the court held in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education that the federal courts could order busing to desegregate schools...
...fallen to the head of the third branch of government to set matters straight. In a speech last week, Chief Justice William Rehnquist reminded the nation that while criticism is proper (as Dole finally said), calls for resignation and impeachment should never come from responsible officials when they simply disagree with a particular judicial decision (as Clinton finally said). The problem, of course, is timing. Had Dole and Clinton celebrated judicial independence when it mattered, they might not seem so phony in their constant preaching about morality and the value of a more moderate civic discourse...