Word: ordainment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should young Nicholas' anguish have a direct bearing on Payne's punishment? Will a Supreme Court decision upholding Payne's sentence create a climate where the wails of a murder victim's relatives will ordain vengeance in the form of capital punishment? During the oral argument, Chief Justice William Rehnquist probably reflected his own views when he asked Payne's attorney, "Are you suggesting that the jury's feeling of sympathy or perhaps outrage at the crime and what it's left the victim with is not a permissible factor...
...happens, the range of Jewish religious opinion on homosexuality is very broad. Some movements within Judaism, notably the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, not only accept homosexuality but also ordain gay men and lesbian women as rabbis...
...control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...
...work a miracle or two in preventing world Anglicanism from flying apart over women priests and bishops. Yet the compromises he engineered merely paper over the fact that the Anglican Communion is barely a Communion any longer. Some of its 27 autonomous national branches -- including the U.S. Episcopal Church -- ordain women priests, who are not recognized by Runcie's mother church and other branches. Nonrecognition of priests (male and female) ordained by women bishops will further muddy the waters...