Word: protestantism
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Speakers at yesterday’s rally included an interracial gay couple from the Mass. Supreme Court case, a gay couple who would be celebrating their 49th anniversary in May, senators, legislators and one Protestant and one Anglican minister who expressed the support of their parishes for gay rights.
The son of two Protestant missionaries, Barth grew up in France, Jordan, Israel, Canada and five cities in the United States (currently Fairfax, Va., is home). Though he’s enjoyed each, the “beautiful, hospitable people of Jordan” left the biggest impression on Barth...
In that era, public schooling was routinely denied to the Catholic children living in urban America. But as Protestant families began to flock out of the city, leaving the neighborhoods to the Catholic immigrants, so too they left the political establishment to aspirant Catholics. New anti-immigrant political parties like...
Dawkins pointed to the example of Protestant fundamentalists in Belfast spitting at young Catholic girls merely because their parents labeled them Catholic.
The law supports, at least partly, the head-scarf cause. A 1989 ruling by the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest legal body, stated that outward manifestations of religious faith by students are not "incompatible with the principle of secularity." But the Conseil also noted that "ostentatious or militant" displays...