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Dole brings something to the party's civil war that her rivals do not. A generation of Republican candidates have courted religious activists with position papers; Liddy courts them with piety. She tries to devote 30 minutes to Bible study every day and can move the faithful with her Scripture-packed story of rediscovering God at midlife. She has opposed abortion except in the case of rape, incest or endangering the life of the mother, but she makes the activists nervous. Antiabortion language had a way of disappearing from drafts of her speeches in 1996. Dole is betting that...
Practically, it makes no difference whether Moses existed or not. Most important is the symbolism of his leadership, enforcing the notion of a single God and fortifying faith among his people. Great leaders, like the one illustrated by the concept of Moses, effectively use spiritual assurance of a religious nature as a crucial weapon to restrain human aggressiveness and maintain unity. ALBERT C. CUETTER El Paso, Texas...
Naive political spectators will tell you that religion strongly influences policy and electoral politics. For evidence, they point to the fact that nearly every member of Congress professes some form of traditional faith and that no atheists ever run for public office because they would automatically lose. They call our attention to events like Congress' vote in the 1950s to put the word "God" onto our paper money, into our national motto and into our Pledge of Allegiance; the Congress and President Reagan's formal declaration that 1983 was the "Year of the Bible"; and the recent increase...
Dershowitz also claims that the CofCC is a "racist and anti-Semitic organization." The truth is that the CofCC is neither. The Council does indeed defend white European Americans, their civilization, faith and form of government, but it does not support the oppression or exploitation of any racial, ethnic or religious group...
Thomas P. Conroy, Yale's acting director of public affairs said, "everyone at Yale is hopeful that they can bring whoever is responsible to justice. We have justifiable faith and hope for their success...