Word: preach
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...Thernstrom said he appreciated addressing an audience of people who held most of his views, but joked before the speech that “it can be boring to preach too much to the converted...
...this point, we should make clear that the BDSM these researchers study is consensual. No one in the fledgling BDSM movement argues in favor of actual slavery or rape (though eroticized simulations of such crimes are common). Among the BDSM clubs and support groups, all the reputable ones preach the BDSM mantra: safe, sane and consensual. "Like every other subculture, we have a fringe, an element that doesn't follow the rules," says Susan Wright of the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, a BDSM advocacy group formed in 1997 that claims 34 member organizations representing 10,000 people. "But every...
...could preach fluently, predict the future and travel, she claimed, from Paris to Tours and back by angel power. But were her gifts from God, the devil or her own vivid imagination? Grunwald, a former editor-in-chief of Time Inc., is less interested in theology and is-she-or-isn't-she games than in the subtle psychology and sociology of faith and its obverse, doubt: what makes people believe, what makes people want to believe and what makes belief fail. To this end he surrounds Nicole with a bestiary of believers who try to come to terms with...
...such nectar to conservatives that there's little danger of a broad fiscal revolt from his base. Furthermore, embracing the prescription-drug entitlement helps build the kind of governing majority that Bush's political brain Karl Rove has long dreamed of. When they were a minority party, Republicans could preach fiscal discipline. Now that they control Congress, the White House and more than half of the state houses, they have to show that they are listening--specifically on issues like health care and education, which were once considered territory only Democrats cared about. So if a little money needs...
...abstinence? Shouldn’t HRL be out there with Students For Choice, handing out condoms and educating students about the various methods of birth control? To be effective they must be proactive. Accept that premarital sex is a societal norm and educate people about safety and responsibility. Or, preach abstinence—but don’t be surprised when people accidentally become pregnant and desire the option of an abortion...