Word: dissents
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They objected to the 300-ft. prohibitions and other clauses. But they allowed much of the smaller zone, which Rehnquist wrote "burdens no more speech than necessary to accomplish the governmental interest at stake." This drew a blistering dissent from Justice Antonin Scalia, who accused his colleagues of creating a standard of tolerance for injunctions against all kinds of speech -- to serve a fondness for abortion rights, which, he thundered, now "claims its latest, greatest and most surprising victim: the First Amendment...
...technically illegal. While a growing number of companies offer some form of benefits for same-sex "spousal equivalents," all but eight states allow employers to fire people just for being gay. Sexually active gays remain unwelcome in many mainstream Christian churches. Denominations that are more accommodating face fractious internal dissent -- as happened last week, when an Episcopal congregation in Arlington, Texas, voted to switch to Roman Catholicism, in large part over some Episcopalians' willingness to bless same-sex marriages...
...before becoming the church's first prophet. Quinn had earlier published an article indicating that despite the church's official disavowal of polygamy in 1890, high officials secretly continued to practice and sanction additional polygamous nuptials. Both Quinn and Wright have been excommunicated. The very act of reporting on dissent is severely discouraged. When Lavina Fielding Anderson, editor of Journal of Mormon History, published a piece detailing the pressures faced by church intellectuals, she too was excommunicated...
...secret "Strengthening Church Members Committee" was created to monitor doctrinally troublesome writings and beliefs. Old-style polygamists have suffered as much as liberal Mormons from excommunication. Says Jan Shipps, a religious historian at Indiana University-Purdue University: "It's the steering of a middle course." That strict patrolling of dissent is likely to continue under the new leadership; it may even deepen. Next in the line of succession after Hunter are Benson's chief counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley, who will turn 84 this month, and Thomas Monson, 66. After them may come Boyd K. Packer, 69, an ardent promoter...
...Garza became a Gabay convert. Under Gabay's first administration the council experienced remarkably little internal dissent, successfully distributing grants funding free comedy concerts and airport shuttle buses, and presenting plans for evaluating teaching fellows...