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...conservative Christians who worked so hard in the 1980s to make home schooling legal in every state are as committed as ever, but more politically moderate Christians have also joined the movement. Susie Capraro, who home schools her son and daughter, used to be part of the Broward County Parent Support Group, the largest home-schooling network in Florida and one founded on Judeo-Christian principles. Although she considers herself a Fundamentalist Christian, Capraro didn't like group rules that keep non-Christians from leadership roles--or other exclusionary gestures, like the ice skating event that featured only Christian music...
Consequently, the Koran, the inspired scripture that Muhammad brought to the Arabs, venerates the great prophets of the Judeo-Christian tradition. It speaks of Solomon's "great place of prayer" in Jerusalem, which the first Muslims called City of the Temple. Only after the Jews of Medina rejected Muhammad did he switch orientation and instruct his adherents to pray facing Mecca, whose ancient shrine, the Kabah, was thought by locals to have been built by Abraham and his son Ishmael, the father of the Arabs...
...phrase was changed to "practice safe sex." Between these two is a great gulf. "Safe sex," in Africa at least, is generally sex with a condom but without moral constraints. In fact, as your AIDS report pointed out, condoms rarely get used. "Biblical sexuality," by contrast, speaks of the Judeo-Christian view of sex as belonging in a monogamous, heterosexual relationship and involving abstinence before marriage and faithfulness within it. The safe-sex message, if anything, perpetuates the multipartner lifestyle associated with the increase in HIV infection. Biblical sexuality is what is required to stop this. Let no one confuse...
...considered a pretty classically American response: The population supports an idea in theory, but specifics tend to cause problems. A full three-fourths of the public supports the concept of Bush's faith-based charity proposal. Interestingly, a lot of those same people felt strongly that groups outside the Judeo-Christian tradition should not be provided funding, while at the same time, 78 percent of respondents said that groups should not be able to turn away applicants who don't share their religious beliefs. So you have these vaguely conflicting ideas about inclusion...
...Democratic candidates and the Republican presidential contender touting their religiosity [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 21]. More worrisome, however, is the further contention that religion deserves a greater, rather than lesser, role in the body politic. Does this signal a new Puritanism, a return to politics of the Judeo-Christian tradition as interpreted by the politicians in power? Will our lives be governed by political leaders whose religious convictions we do not share? One can only hope that this is just more empty political rhetoric. JAMES BOYCE Skopje, Macedonia