Word: diagnosticians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thank you for introducing your readers to Ralph Reed, a tough and winsome advocate of a particular kind of theocracy [COVER STORY, May 15]. The trouble with Reed and the Christian Coalition is that while he is a very good diagnostician of the country's ills, he is a menace when it comes to public policy. There is no greater pathology in religion than that of confusing one's own will with God's. As for Americans, for whom so many presume to speak, we need to be wary of the God-is-on-our-side rhetoric. Politicians who worship...
...book represents a diagnostician's exhaustive checkup of his new community, in which he finds as many hidden fears and lesions as in any of his patients. He meets a preacher who has "penile, rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea." He hears of macho truck drivers who have quick liaisons with men because they don't charge, and he learns of married men in church making dates with the gay men they know. Most of all he listens with sympathy to the woman who begs him to keep her son's disease a secret so she won't have to endure "faggot...