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...IDAF was founded in 1956 to help defend 156 Black South Africans accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman, Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South African history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
Other religious thinkers see no problem with a geneticist's manipulating DNA to eradicate dread diseases. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and the only clergyman on the President's bioethics commission, did not sign last week's statement...
...IDAF was founded in 1956 to help defend 156 Black South Africans accused of treason. Its primary driving force in those days was an English clergyman, Canon L. John Collins, who raised funds in his country and elsewhere to pay for defense lawyers and to support the families of those on trial. In 1961, after one of the longest trials in South African history, all 156 Blacks were acquitted, largely thanks to the efforts of the IDAF...
...views on gay rights, school prayer, and national defense would, if enacted into law, imperil civil rights and world peace. But the preacher's enormous popularity is no mere media trick. He speaks to deep-seated feelings of confusion and discontent among the American people. Like 1930s rightist radio clergyman Father Charles Coughlin, Falwell provides Americans beset by hard times an answer to their problems: Return to tradition and authority. And he does so in terms that resonate deep within our collective imagination--God and Country...
...drug trafficker in Greece, and time done in a monastery. Still wearing his monk's habit, he has come back to the university to sponge off his former colleagues, and, of course, to write the modern Proust. Davies blends in Parlabane's speech the erstwhile academic, mincing clergyman, mincing homosexual, and streetwise manipulator...