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Teachers say they favor the dress code (no blue jeans or tennis shoes except for gym; socks a must at all times) because it encourages "self-respect and a conscious effort on the part of the children." Students are also forbidden to eat, sing or "play" on the school bus. Spray paint cans and Magic Markers are not allowed in the building: the school's yellow walls are clean, its corridors and classrooms quiet...
Despite all of the objections that have been raised against him, Kung has remained a staunch defender of Christianity. The Church, however, does not think much of his approach. The Vatican's Holy Office has declared Kung a heretic and has forbidden him from teaching Catholic theology, ostensibly for his questioning of the infallibility of the Church. Indeed, in Does God Exist? Kung questions and then denounces the Holy Office, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Immaculate Conception, papal infallibility, and Paul VI's condemnation of birth control and homosexuality. He belongs to the liberal Catholic tradition that Plus...
...They sang and cheered as Walesa, sporting a short-brimmed peasant's cap, entered the gray stone court building to attend the hearing. He got a less enthusiastic reception when he emerged onto the steps five hours later to announce the court's verdict: the farmers were forbidden to form a union, but were invited instead to register as an "association...
...issue of birth control is instructive here. Its practice is also forbidden by a literal interpretation of the Bible, yet we do not persecute those who use it. In fact, many users are the same ones who condemn homosexuality as ungodly. This selective piety is the basest hypocrisy...
Even strict worker-conduct rules win wide support. For example, alcohol is banned at company lunches, and male employees are forbidden to wear long sideburns or beards. When a stewardess was fired for posing out of uniform in a Playboy picture layout last year, one offended colleague observed: ''The company was justified." Despite such rigorous standards, Delta has a stunning 250,000 job applications on file...