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Although the above facts suggest that the ordinance unfairly targets the Santeria religion, the city claims that the ordinance is a neutral governmental decision not formulated with religion in mind. Richard G. Garrett, the lawyer who will argue the city's case, protests rather disingenuously that both secular and religious animal sacrifices are outlawed by the ordinance...
Although the vast majority of sex crimes are perpetuated by men against women, debate on the subject should be gender- and sexual orientation-neutral and should focus on the nature of the criminal liability...
...freespeech. I think it's a lot of hypocrisy. A lot ofthem wouldn't defend free speech unless it wasdirected at them and unless they were the victimsof censorship. At any given time at a universitythere are only going to be a few handfuls ofpeople who genuinely believe in neutral freespeech for everybody. Mostly, as Nat Hentoff putit so well in the title of his book, its FreeSpeech for Me--Not for Thee...
Ackermann predicted high voter turnout for Tuesday's election. "Cambridge is very politically aware," she said. "People [here] are not neutral...
...spending, of some $50 billion to $75 billion. He challenged the conventional argument that such stimulus would be superfluous in an economy with such a big annual deficit. When the cost of interest on the national debt was subtracted, he reasoned, federal fiscal policy was no better than neutral in its impact on the economy, while fiscal policy was contractionary among states and cities that were raising taxes and cutting spending. Bush and his other advisers, however, showed no enthusiasm for Boskin's proposal, preferring to rely on interest-rate cuts promised...