Word: nixon
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...Nixons of Altoona, Pennsylvania, appeared to be ideal citizens. Dennis Nixon, 41, is a successful businessman known for his generosity and consideration. His wife Lorie, 45, is a devoted mother. Their two-story brick home is comfortably middle class and better maintained than most of the other houses on the street. In the backyard are bright-colored swings and slides for their numerous children. The neighbors point out that the Nixon kids always wear safety helmets when they ride by on their new bicycles. And Dennis and Lorie Nixon pray for their kids. They pray all the time...
...even with all their prayers, the Nixons have lost two children in a way that has set the town on edge and led to disastrous encounters with the law. In 1991 their eight-year-old son Clayton died as the result of an ear infection treated only by prayer. The Nixons pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, and they were put on probation. Last week the Nixons were found guilty of the same charges in the death of their 16-year-old daughter Shannon, who fell into a diabetic coma after...
...Charles Nixon's entire congregation had prayed hard for his granddaughter Shannon. Her health had been troubling her for weeks. At 5 ft. 4 in., the teenager weighed only 100 lbs. More significantly, she was constantly thirsty. By June 18, Shannon was complaining of weakness and dizziness and decided to stay home from her job at her father's storm-door company. Though she was worried about her health, the thought of calling a doctor never occurred to Shannon. Instead she asked to be "anointed," a procedure the church reserves for extremely serious illnesses. The day after, she felt better...
...Faith Tabernacle, founded in 1897 and centered in Philadelphia, has run up against the law before. In 1983 two members were convicted in the death of their two-year-old son, based on a 1944 Supreme Court ruling that also influenced the Nixon case: "Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves. But it does not follow that they are free ... to make martyrs of their children before they have reached the age of full and legal discretion...
Jeffrey had a point there. Nixon is still generating copy, three years after his death. For the press, the gradual release of the Oval Office tapes has been like a small but steady trust fund. Still, I had taken the sort of hit from the irs that made me understand why Steve Forbes was so eager for a system that would make income from his trust fund tax free...