Word: evils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GAMBLING: The Church of England "has never declared that betting and gambling are ecclesiastical crimes." Dr. Fisher came out in favor of the government's new bill to legalize off-track betting as a way to control a "grave social evil." But, he added, this does not mean the church is "saying that betting and gaming are good things. They...
PROSTITUTION : Should be treated as an evil, like dope peddling...
HOMOSEXUALITY: "All homosexual acts are sins," said the archbishop, but they should not necessarily be crimes. "Some of us think that this particular evil could be more effectively dealt with pastorally if it were not regarded as criminal...
...power from the politics of peace. Yet, Hughes argues: "Power plus principles equals policy." Other "myths" Author Hughes finds damaging: the notion that a free society is intrinsically strong, a tyranny intrinsically weak; that economic progress assures political stability; that any division of nations is between good and evil...
...Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A skillfully written novel about a prison riot that is also a prickly parable of power and evil...