Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perkins says that although the therapy didn't help him, repressing desire may be the only way for some fundamentalist Christians to reconcile their homosexuality with their religious beliefs...
...fact that for a long time no one knew the outbreak was occurring. The western Upper Nile is one of the world's most remote areas. It has almost no roads, and the Nuer ethnic group that populates it is extremely isolated. To make matters worse, the Islamic fundamentalist-influenced government in Khartoum was engaged in a civil war with the people of the south, where Christianity and traditional African religions prevail. Displacement caused by the war and famines had further weakened the population, and the government showed no interest in stopping a disease that might prove more effective than...
...struggling technical writer intoxicated by the potential of Net life. "I was bleary-eyed and buzzed about the future," he says. "I saw all of humanity coming online." Then one day our hero experienced some of that humanity, in an AOL chat room, where a lesbian and a Christian Fundamentalist were bashing each other. Cassell ended up disgusted--not by the name calling but by AOL's Victorian censorship policy, which resulted in a chat-room monitor summarily booting the lesbian for uttering the word bitch...
...protest a classmate's Confederate flag. Today, says UCLA director of residential life Alan Hanson, "multiculturalism isn't really a hot topic." But the growth of religious conservatism could rekindle the flames. "Today you have a larger interest among students in religion, whether it's Orthodox Judaism or...Fundamentalist Christianity," says David Merkowitz of the American Council on Education. One survey indicates that half of freshmen identify themselves as Protestant, up from a third 15 years...
...spoke frequently, are also linked by similar attitudes and ambitions. They share a firm sense of duty. Both, according to someone who knows them, share "the same sort of fundamentalist strain." They are deeply religious without necessarily being orthodox. And they have children of a similar age--though the state-educated Blair boys, Euan and Nicholas, thrashed William and Harry at soccer this summer...