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...Supreme Court may have to decide just what type of organization the Boy Scouts is. In what could turn out to be a landmark ruling on gay rights, New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that the organization, as a "place of public accommodation," is forbidden from discriminating against homosexuals. This decision stands in direct contrast to the California bench?s 1998 ruling that defined the Scouts as a private organization, which therefore had a right to exclude gays. Although the High Court declined to hear an appeal on the California ruling, the conflicting interpretations may persuade the justices to hear...
Inheriting the family job at 14, when his father died, he wasn't content to dwell only in the spiritual world. His mother pushed him to finish school, and when the university said he could not wear priest's robes, she let him buy a forbidden pair of trousers. His education helped him understand threats to the Ganges, and since 1982 he has struggled to open the eyes of bureaucrats and the public. Supported in part by aid from the U.S. and Swedish governments, Mishra juggles his roles as priest and activist. As he takes a call from Washington inviting...
...unusual athletes leap from--buildings, antennas, spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs). Equipped with rectangular canopy chutes, toggles for steering, a knowledge of which way the wind is blowing, no reserve chutes (as compared with skydivers) and a special arrangement of brain cells, participants jump to conclusions from great and forbidden heights, or from little ones where a chute has little time to open. Until they release their chutes, they fall at 60 m.p.h. The end is often unsatisfactory...
...FORBIDDEN LIST...
While their beliefs and practices may be gentle at heart, their symbolism makes it fairly easy to demonize them. Besides calling themselves witches, they often prefer to conduct their rituals naked (Fort Hood has forbidden them to do so), use 9-in. daggers called athames in their ceremonies, cast magic spells, and worship, among others, "the horned god" found in pagan traditions. Wiccans are also pacifists, but believe that your actions come back to you threefold and are prepared to accept the consequences of what they do as soldiers. That the Army would be so progressive in its acceptance makes...