Word: faithfully
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...very few places that we separate men and women--we use different bathrooms, we participate in sports separately and only men register for the draft. Why we do these things is an open question for sociologists and anthropologists. But whatever the reason, these distinctions are made with a faith that there are some essential differences between the sexes that we should take into account...
When a public building is dedicated to one faith, it is difficult to argue that the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment has not been violated. While Cambridge politicians and historians vow to protect the plaques for their historical significance, respect for our nation's Constitution demands that they must come down...
While Rindge may have donated the library with the greatest love and Christian charity, the city of Cambridge cannot endorse his faith simply because of his money. To do so would suggest that our public buildings, and our private liberties, are up for sale. Any donor can violate the Establishment Clause, or perhaps other civil rights, as the price for their munificence. The plaques should be removed from a public library and placed where they belong--in a Church or in a museum...
...READ WITH INTEREST IAN BURUMA'S article, "Lost Without a Faith,'' about how the Japanese are looking for new gods [Cover, April 3]. Buruma has keen insight into the Japanese mentality. I don't agree, however, with his opinion that Soka Gakkai members worship Daisaku Ikeda, honorary president of the group, as a monarch. The Soka Gakkai is a grass-roots Buddhist organization whose goal is the establishment of world peace. Since it stands on the side of the common people, it has always been criticized and persecuted by the authorities. Its first president, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a renowned educator, died...
...East, but in the Cambridge Gulag it is alive and well. (The Lerner-West public forum is, in fact, organized by the Democratic Socialists of America at Harvard Divinity School.) Socialism itself is the primary error in judgment of both Lerner and West. Because of their lack of faith in our capitalist republic, they find it necessary to reconstruct the entire nation in order to defeat racism and anti-Semitism...