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...launched an AIDS-awareness campaign. This type of action must eventually take place everywhere in Africa. The West can make it happen faster by declaring that the leaders of the sub-Saharan African countries are guilty of genocide of their own people, and by imposing sanctions right away. CHEM COHEN Vancouver...
Arianne R. Cohen's Editor's Notebook ("Taking God out of Government," Feb. 9) was remarkable in its ability to amuse and irritate. Cohen's argument rests on the fact that she doesn't like the religious bent of others and thinks they should act as she sees...
...Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...." It means exactly what it says: The United States does not legislate or mandate religion. The phrase certainly does not mean that one cannot express his or her religious beliefs. While those who do believe in God cannot force Cohen to pray or to worship, she too has no right to force others to not pray or to not worship...
...would be perhaps useful for Cohen to continue reading from the First Amendment: "... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." An inauguration is not a service, not a federal ceremony and not an official endorsement of religion. An inauguration is a fluffy, symbolic event that incoming presidents plan because they like to have some type of celebration to mark the changing of the guard. The program at an inauguration is entirely at the discretion of the participants. No one forces Americans to watch it or participate...
...Staff writer Arianne R. Cohen can be reached at cohen7@fas.harvard.edu...