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These were radical notions at the time, born of a commitment to moral self- improvement and an Enlightenment faith in the power of free inquiry and tolerance. The task of the Founding Fathers -- some of them quite devout, others much less so -- was to identify some vision of the common good that could be shared by citizens with very different priorities. They constructed a system of government and law in which freedom and equality were both essential, and religion was neither too close a friend nor the enemy...
Wernher laughs at the characterization, but he admits it is true. He credits his missionary work as a devout Jehovah's Witness with developing his public speaking skills...
Francis, too, is born in 1926 and his childhood marches parallel the development of WLT. He is a devout fan of Friendly Neighbor and, when his engineer father dies in a train accident, Francis makes his way to Minneapolis to live with Uncle Art and work...
...queers; only some of them fall into that extreme category--writers whose rhetoric borders dangerously close to a call for violence against gays. No, the three members of Peninsula with whom I am familiar (Matthew J. McDonald, Adam Jones and Roger Landry) struck me as devout, well-intentioned young men who see a widespread problem on our campus (homosexuality), and want to correct...
...editors will say you cannot: this is what "The Church" teaches. Those indifferent to religion will say, "Who cares and what does it matter?" For these, homosexuality will be tolerated or condemned on grounds other than religion. But to those of us who are both homosexual and devout, the issue is not so easily dismissed...