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...university is the first elite academic institution in the country to reject divestment, and the only institution to justify their complicity in genocide in moral terms,” Michael Pareles, STAND co-chair said. “Four hundred thousand people have died in the genocide in Darfur, but the University of Chicago Board of Trustees does not find that exceptional enough to change its investment policies...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schools Decide On Sudan Stocks | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, district attorney David McDade argues that Wilson is a poor cause for those attempting to have the Romeo and Juliet laws apply retroactively. "By any standard of moral conduct," McDade told TIME, "society cannot accept that kind of behavior and tolerate it. He and the others in the room had sex repeatedly with this 17-year-old girl, who was at best semi conscious. Genarlow Wilson is not a hero, and he is not the martyr that he has been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should a Teen Sex Offender Go Free? | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...Pope has confirmed the Vatican's strictly traditional party line on questions of doctrine and moral theology. But his more progressive counterpart, the former Archbishop, has hardly disappeared. Officially, having stepped down from his Milan post in 2003 after reaching the prescribed retirement age of 75, Martini should be enjoying a quiet, scholarly retirement with his biblical studies in Jerusalem. Still, most Church insiders say the Jesuit Cardinal, who turned 80 on Saturday, remains the single most influential Catholic leader challenging Rome's rigid-as-ever stances on moral issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope's Progressive Challenger | 2/20/2007 | See Source »

...Religious Right. Both sides are asking how to connect faith and values with politics. People know now that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, and we are all learning that religion should not be in the pocket of any political party; it calls all of us to moral accountability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Religious Right's Era Is Over | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...Most people I talk to think that politics isn't working in America and believe that the misuse of religion has been part of the problem. Politics is failing to resolve the big moral issues of our time, or even to seriously address them. And religion has too often been used as a wedge to divide people, rather than as a bridge to bring us together on those most critical questions. I believe (and many people I talk with agree) that politics could and should begin to really deal with the many crises we face. Whenever that happens, social movements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Religious Right's Era Is Over | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

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