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...First Amendment. A Minnesota teenager, Robert A. Viktora, burned a cross on the front lawn of a black family in St. Paul and was charged under a city ordinance that banned any action "which one knows . . . arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." Scalia called the ordinance unconstitutional on its face "in that it prohibits otherwise permitted speech solely on the basis of the subjects the speech addresses." He was quick to add, "Let there be no mistake about our belief that burning a cross in someone's front yard...
...Vatican approved use of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible (an example, from Psalm 8:4: "What are human beings that you are mindful of them?"), and work is under way on other such translations. The proposed new liturgy for English-speaking countries would revise the Nicene Creed, which is recited at every Mass, to state that Jesus Christ "became truly human" rather than "became...
...arguing that diversity is bad. Clearly, few of us would want to attend a school where everyone shared the same color, creed and interest...
...made faiths, especially Southern Baptism, where he stumbles badly, and Mormonism, which he lauds for odd originality. Pentecostalism? "Daring." New Age? Can't read the stuff. A portentous subtitle transmits Bloom's wish: "The Emergence of the Post- Christian Nation." Oh, yes. Bloom thinks America's hidden creed is Gnosticism, and, for the American, god is none other than himself...
...Brown hasn't always been a populist. Ever obedient to his creed of flexibility, he has at times defined himself as heir to his father's political throne, as dreamer, environmentalist, rock 'n' roller, pragmatist and technocrat...