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...movie. Partly this is because the screenwriter, Richard Friedenberg, has gently expanded the original work, using family history gathered from the writer (who died in 1990) and his children. He has added some colorful boyhood anecdotes and, most important, has developed the boys' relationship with their father, a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerritt), as well as Norman Maclean's courtship of his wife, Jessie (Emily Lloyd), more fully than they are in the book. Partly it is because director Robert Redford has rigorously maintained the understated tone of a book that never plea-bargains, never asks outright for sympathy or understanding...
Despite the oddity of animal sacrifice to most Americans, mainstream religious groups have weighed in to support the Lukumi Babalu Aye church. Jewish organizations fear that Hialeah's law might rule out kosher slaughtering. Christian groups like the Presbyterian Church and National Association of Evangelicals want to prevent the Supreme Court from further restricting religious rights. Complains attorney Oliver Thomas of the Baptist Joint Committee: "The American public has a hard time seeing beyond the dead chickens...
...much as $500,000 at auction. It may also underscore how important it is to have everything in writing -- a reminder that might have spared Ronald Reagan some embarrassment. In his speech to the Republican National Convention, Reagan misattributed to Lincoln maxims actually written by a 20th century Presbyterian clergyman...
...Smith wants a President "who will fight for our rights" against pro-choice feminists, atheists, gay-rights activists and others who threaten his brand of morality. "We're getting it shoved up our noses," Smith complained. He cares little if help comes from an Episcopalian like Bush or a Presbyterian like Dan Quayle...
Then, last week, the Presbyterian Church (membership: 2.8 million) expressed second thoughts about the pro-choice stand it took even before the Supreme Court did. Presbyterian delegates in Milwaukee said secular law should still allow open access to the procedure. But in terms of personal morality, they rejected abortion for economic reasons and endorsed it only for a grave threat to a mother's physical or mental health, severe physical or mental defect in a fetus, rape or incest. The new policy also acknowledges that many Presbyterians see each life in the womb as "created for a purpose and belonging...