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...cuddly than many expected it would be, but his beliefs have not budged. He has made it clear that traditional Church teachings on abortion, female clergy and homosexuality will not be challenged so long as he's in charge. After the release of a new Vatican document that would prohibit any person who was openly gay - even if celibate - from becoming a priest, the writer Andrew Sullivan, a gay Catholic, said Benedict "has identified a group of people and said, regardless of how they behave or what they do, they are beneath serving God. It isn't what they...
...majority of Americans as much as it does to deter potential violent criminals from committing crimes. But punishment should not be tailored to the electorate. Rather it should follow the same moral norms that every citizen of the United States is expected to follow—moral norms that prohibit killing except in self-defense. As Stanley Williams reportedly tried to help the technician deliver his own lethal injection, it can hardly be argued that the state believed Williams to be an imminent danger. With the myriad problems afflicting the current criminal justice system, the death penalty also allows...
...DoC’s summary of the proposal, was intended to prevent researchers from hiding their political loyalties behind a new citizenship. Summers called this requirement “neither reasonable nor permissible” and said that Harvard does not collect this information because of federal laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of national origin...
Much has been made about a supposed “contract” made between Harvard University and the New Orleans universities (Tulane and Loyola University New Orleans) from which it accepted students, which some claim obliges Harvard to prohibit visiting students from staying in Cambridge next term. Fortunately, there was no such public announcement, and Harvard has no normative obligation to satisfy the interests of Tulane or Loyola. On the contrary, out of a sense of compassion and sympathy, Harvard ought to give visiting students an opportunity to transfer mid-year, even though visiting Harvard students are ordinarily barred...
...Staff argues that the policy of groups such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) and its sister group, Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF), which demands that officers agree to a “statement of faith,” is a violation of UC bylaws that prohibit “discrimination” on the basis of factors such as race, gender, religion, and political affiliation. The UC agrees, but recently suspended its rules so that the AACF could continue to receive funding on a per-case basis, citing the right of the group to exist...