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...lithe frame, five-fathom eyes, long lashes might be threatening if Jackson gave, even for a second, the impression that he is obtainable. But the audience's sense of his sensuality becomes quite deliberately tangled with the mirror image of his life: the good boy, the God-fearing Jehovah's Witness, the adamant vegetarian, the resolute non-indulger in smoke, strong drink or dope of any land, the impossibly insulated innocent. Undeniably sexy. Absolutely safe. Eroticism at arm's length...
...guess we were able to protect him when he was little by reading the Bible and all that. Michael is religious, more so than his brothers. He is a devoted Jehovah's Witness. They were all brought up studying the Bible. My boys are very good. They're not into drugs. I'm not just saying it. Other people can tell you that too. There's nothing wrong with having a little drink once in a while, but they don't even do that. They don't smoke. They're in good health...
While I was in prison I also met four Jehovah's Witnesses, all of whom are probably still imprisoned in Combinado del Este. I saw several Protestant churches on Isla de Pinos that had been turned into fertilizer stores. Many Catholic churches have been closed and traditional religious ceremonies banned. The celebration of Christmas has been suppressed, and even the smallest of Christmas trees is looked upon as counterrevolutionary. Only a few people, generally the aged, run the risk of going to church; young people who attend Mass are stigmatized as "enemies of the revolution" and run the risk...
...President's Commission believes that Down's syndrome babies like Infant Doe are entitled to every medical effort because they can live, though it may be a limited life. Moreover, courts in the past have overruled some parents, such as Jehovah's Witnesses opposed to blood transfusions for their sick children. The Infant Doe case is thus something of an aberration...
...west of the Jordan River have become a Holy Land to Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, containing shrines hallowed by all three faiths. The area, which is about half the size of Connecticut, has also been a battlefield since ancient times for warring tribes and nations. At Jehovah's behest, Abraham led his Jewish tribe from the deserts of what is now Iraq to these fertile valleys beside the Jordan, then known as Palestine, the land of the Philistines...