Word: clergymen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...middle of the most turbulent season in the history of the death penalty since it was restored by the Supreme Court in 1976, a season marked by the strange political marriages it has created. There was a time when only a few liberals and a small group of clergymen fretted over the fairness of the death-penalty system. But ever since famed defense lawyer Barry Scheck and his Innocence Project gained national exposure with their successes in freeing death-row inmates with DNA evidence, a number of prominent conservatives have come forward with their doubts about the reliability...
...symbolism Bush employs can be just as orchestrated. The Governor rarely turns up in front of a camera these days without surrounding himself with African-American schoolchildren, Hispanic social workers, Catholic clergymen--or, as was the case last Thursday in Austin, Texas, gay Republicans. So it was in keeping with the script earlier in the week that after dropping by an adult learning center in a gritty west Cleveland, Ohio, neighborhood and testing out his fearless, if primitive Spanish, Bush went around the corner to the West Side Ecumenical Ministry to announce a plan to help the working poor...
...cheerleading dinner in Muskegon (his second on behalf of Bush that night), Engler held up a letter from the newest force in Michigan politics: an outfit called DOGG (Detroiters Out to Get even with Governor Engler). Written by a Democratic state representative, the letter asked 200 Detroit clergymen to urge their mostly Democratic congregations to vote for John McCain in the Republican primary next week. Engler implored his audience to fight back: "We can't let Democrats decide who the Republican nominee is going to be in Michigan...
There may be no debates or TV ads, much less political parties - and a self-appointed group of conservative clergymen reserve the right to exclude any candidate advocating a separation of church and state - but Iran's parliamentary election Friday nonetheless represents an opportunity for the Iranian people to make their voices heard. And that's a prospect that has the country's conservative political clergy understandably nervous. Last time voters were presented with such an opportunity, the conservatives allied with the country's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini, suffered a humiliating defeat, as 70 percent of the voters...