Word: purport
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...allegiance to this community of extremists, the Bush administration is betraying the Jews they purport to be supporting. Evangelical Christian Zionists not only want Jews to ultimately emigrate to Israel (regardless of whether or not they want to themselves), but would also be happy to let them stay there ’til the end of days—because unless they suddenly convert to Christianity, their supposed allies won’t be welcoming them to heaven...
...establishing a Women’s Center in this way would undermine the very “tenets of equality of access and opportunity” proponents of the proposal purport to advocate. Although the Center would welcome men and women, its exclusive emphasis on “the well-being of female students at Harvard” in effect singles out women for unwarranted institutional support...
...Women’s Center is meant to help students and organizations find each other and the resources they need—objectives that it can achieve with proper support and funding from the administration. Indicting the center for failing to do something it doesn’t purport to do is illogical and unfair...
Believers too, especially in the university setting, must also do a better job of deciding how much of their religion is premised on historical assumptions and how much on pure faith. Religion based on blame and accusations that purport to be truthful have real-world consequences. No one should be expected to bear those consequences without seeking to have the accusations tested by the tools of the academy. Yet many resist such testing, regarding it as disrespectful of religious beliefs. TV commentators Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly have labeled criticism of the historical accuracy of the Gibson...
...Student Dress Code Your notebook item [Feb. 2] on the debate over France prohibiting the wearing of head scarves and other religious symbols in public schools missed one point: France's schools, which close on Sundays and Christian holidays, purport to be secular, but in fact they are Christian schools, pressuring Jews to attend on Saturdays and telling Muslim girls not to cover their hair. If "small crucifixes" are O.K., then why not small head scarves or small Jewish skullcaps? Joseph A. Feld London...