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...other extreme, conservative legalists prohibit acts of male (though not female) homosexual intercourse. Yet even they do not make derogatory reference to gay and lesbian people, something AALARM's postering did. This distinction between act and actor, under which persons are respected even when their deeds are not, has been part of Jewish law for as long as rabbis have written. (For one early Talmudic example, see the Mishna, Berakhot...
...considered a puppet of the National Rifle Association--has voiced his support for the bill. But Bush, unlike his predecessor, still needs the support of the all-too-powerful gun lobby, and has instead chosen to play political games with Congress. The president offered up his own bill to prohibit the domestic assembly of military-style semi-automatic weapons that are banned for import. Bush's bill is designed to offend nobody; as a result, it helps nobody...
Well, not quite. But Glazer's broader message is right on the mark: the American experience has been characterized by a gradual but continuous acceptance of different people. When the Student Senate at Southern Methodist University moves to prohibit anti-gay harassment, then the rest of America can't be far behind...
...Group Inc. focuses on Congress's 1965 decision to require health warnings on cigarette packages. Tobacco companies argue that the labeling rule shields them from liability suits by pre-empting state personal-injury laws. Cipollone's attorney Marc Edell, representing her son Thomas, responds that "Congress never intended to prohibit suits that attack the inadequacy of the warning or the advertising practices of the cigarette manufacturers." At stake: potentially billions of dollars in damages from similar suits...
When prowar sentiment is being expressed, however, rules that limit expression of a political idea have a way of being waived, modified or ignored. Authorities at Cornell University decided not to discipline students flying flags from their dormitory windows, despite residential contracts that for safety and maintenance reasons prohibit hanging anything from the window. The University of South Carolina officially frowns on students' leaning out of their windows and using Super Glue to affix flags and banners to their buildings. But officials tolerated the practice at one patriotic freshman dorm, where displays inside the window would not have been visible...