Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yet Bush does not have an undisputed claim to evangelical support this year. Spokesmen for the Southern Baptist Convention, the country's largest Protestant group, complain that the President is squishy on certain issues. In particular, they disdain his reluctance to hammer gay-rights activism as some other Republicans do...
A less mealymouthed defense of the American character would begin by acknowledging its historical roots in the behavior of the Anglo settlers of 200 and 300 years ago -- what are known today as Wasps. The Ur-Wasps brought with them a load of cultural baggage, which they unpacked when they...
Throughout American history, newcomers assimilated to this model, despite the doubts and hostility of their hosts. At the turn of the century, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was worried that East European immigrants labored under a "Byzantine" inheritance that would make them inimical to republican rule. Sixty years earlier, Protestant mobs...
Hal (Bryan E. Van Gorder), Mrs. McLeavy's unsentimental son, has no qualms about hiding the loot from his bank theft in his mother's coffin and stuffing her naked corpse into a bureau ("it's a Freudian nightmare," he comments offhandeldy). Hal's partner in crime and sometime lover...
Upon returning to Ireland she married fellow lawyer Nicholas Robinson, the son of a Protestant banker and a former political cartoonist for the Irish Times. She took on cases of sexual and employment disadvantage to women. She fought for legalizing birth control and divorce (or "the divorce," as it is...