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...Danish society used to a be a consensus society," says Khader. "But in the last few years Danish politicians [have] forgotten the centre. We want to go back to the middle of the road...
...adopted a "homestead" provision that eventually caps a homeowner's property tax increases at 3% a year. But when the house is sold, the cap no longer applies - creating absurd situations in which neighbors with similar homes pay wildly disparate property taxes. As a result, "there is now absolute consensus that local property taxes are out of control," says Republican state Senator Mike Haridopolos, co-chairman of the Joint Select Committee on Property Tax Reform and Relief...
Williams insists that he is "not recanting" his old arguments about homosexuality but that his new job demands that he express "where the consensus of our church is" rather than press for change. He himself does not see sexuality as of "first-order" theological importance. But he believes so many Christians do that pro-gay measures must be preceded by a broad shift in consensus--and thinks the U.S. church failed in that regard. Old allies, he admits, saw his shift on gays as a "betrayal." But it has won him few new friends--certainly not archconservative Nigerian Archbishop Peter...
...you”—Harvard’s 723 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—is a group not given to consensus or, frankly, much trust...
...public, Pilbeam warned his colleagues of the dangers of getting bogged down in the program’s minutiae. In private, he and Bok met with leading professors to force a consensus, Bok said in a recent interview...