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...Islam? There, nine nations, all of them invoking Islam’s Sharia law, punish homosexuality with death; in many of the same states, apostates are still beheaded and women accused of adultery are still stoned to death, even if they have been victims of rape. In that same code of laws, a man may divorce a woman simply—by declaring “I divorce thee” three times—but the same does not hold true for a woman who tries to divorce from her husband. Elsewhere, women are not permitted outdoors without...
Fundamentally, it will be a dangerous precedent if the government is able to tie federal funding to the whims of political opinion, invalidating the protection of the nondiscrimination code for all students. If the Pentagon really can take away massive grants that have literally nothing to do with the Department of Defense, there’s nothing but congressional restraint that stops them from changing any other university policy on a political whim. All students, whether queer or straight, conservative or progressive, powerful or powerless, should be concerned about the implications of that precedent for the sake of academic freedom...
...reached no conclusion about the involvement of American soldiers in the website. Despite the failure of Army inquiries to indict soldiers for their alleged conduct, Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker admonished soldiers about “internet safety” and cited another part of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that prohibits the distribution of information threatening military security.The dissemination of imagistic truth from America’s involvement in the Middle East has been a long time coming, and, while the government might use the pornographic content of NTFU as a distraction, one must be cognizant...
...skeptical conservative allies, Bush did chant the litany. "She will not legislate from the bench," he vowed. "I've known her long enough to know she's not going to change," Bush said, a code for "No more Souters." Bush may be right, but Miers got to be her resolute self after undergoing a profound change. Raised a Catholic, she was reborn an Evangelical in 1979, and it was to her spiritual credentials that her surrogates pointed in trying to reassure conservative Christians that she could be trusted. But that was not enough for activists like Janet LaRue, chief counsel...
...teens, when his friends began using drugs and alcohol, Jimmy used the code of ethics he studied in one of L. Ron Hubbard’s books to stay straight. This never alienated him from his friends, whom he says he loved and enjoyed spending time with...