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...better response abandons name-calling in favor of reasoned discussion. This is the best way to reach some sort of consensus, and it is the only way that we will be able to determine collectively whether homosexuality deserves moral approbation. A shift toward a form of argument cleansed of hate language would make for a more civil and, ultimately more fruitful discourse...
...from unions, blacks and church groups, it was not until 1983 that a gay organization, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, was admitted to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, one of Washington's most liberal legislative coalitions. It was 11 years more before the group took a consensus position on anything involving gay rights. In 1994 it backed a modest change in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation while permitting an exemption for churches. Two years later that amendment was defeated in the Senate by just...
...whether an applicant hits Wall Street and spends two years working 100-hour weeks, runs a company or takes a tour of duty in the Armed Forces, the near-universal consensus is that time-off is almost mandatory to apply successfully to B-School...
Same deal with learning to read defenses, says Madden, the TV commentator and ex-coach. The NFL's constantly evolving defenses are tougher to decipher than tax forms, and the consensus in jockdom is that quarterbacking is the hardest thing to do in all of sports, right after remembering where you left the needle to inflate the balls. "I'd say 90% of the quarterbacks never get it," Madden says...
...some grilling about his ties to conservative organizations and to lawyers who worked for Paula Jones--what committee member Barney Frank calls "the whole three-cornered relationship." Republicans, for their part, want Bruce Lindsey, the elusive keeper of the President's secrets, to appear. But there's no consensus on whether Clinton the witness would benefit one side or the other. And that issue is probably moot since the chance is slim he'll raise his hand and swear an oath before a committee of mostly junior Congressmen peering down at him from their platform armchairs. Clinton would...