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With this as a starter, Dr. Muller thought society could go on to completely planned fatherhood, especially for couples "who are afflicted with sterility or a dubious genetic endowment." He brushed aside administrative difficulties by arguing that "dictation, whether by politicians, physicians or geneticists, would tend to be self-defeating." Dr. Muller was confident that, freezing would not damage sperm. But in one sketchily reported trial of frozen sperm, among the first three babies was a girl so deformed that the mother refused to take her home, and she proved to be mentally defective also...
...against materialism, religiosity, and scientism. He is (and I concede the moderate originality of his symbol) for dryads, unifying "earthiness and airiness, mortality and sky, in concrete touchable simplicity." He is for "a natural magic, the marriage of earth and sky." He is, no doubt, also for motherhood, fatherhood, and nut-brown...
...happy, bawdy but somehow innocent and always violently spontaneous little pa ama party. "What you do," the heroine informs the hero thoughtfully, "you do well. But-not seriously." Morbleu! he wonders. What more does the girl want? "A baby." The hero pales at the thought of marriage and fatherhood. "Fill your needs elsewhere," he proclaims indignantly. She finds a rival (Jean-Louis Maury) and gets engaged-but the rival gets cold feet, and at the fade hero tenderly promises heroine that some day, surrounded by all the children her heart desires, she may even have a wedding...
...their religious beliefs than their own ministers? Among U.S. Methodists they are, according to a survey conducted by University of Illinois Professor David E. Lindstrom and released by the Methodist Division of National Missions. Almost all ministers and laymen reported their belief in such basic tenets as the fatherhood of God, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, God's revelation as the Trinity. After that, the differences start cropping...
...resent the implication by certain liberal ministers that it is un-Christian to oppose integration. We believe that integration is contrary to the will of God ... is based on a false theory of the 'universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man.' We believe that integration is not only unChristian, but that it violates all sound sociological principles and is not supported by Scripture or by biological facts...