Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indifferent to their unorthodox mating habits. "We don't give a damn who people go to bed with," says Durham. Last spring Glide sponsored a three-day retreat for homosexuals and clergymen at which the deviates discussed their problems. As a result, Glide formed a citywide Council on Religion and the Homosexual...
John Philby, a noted Arabic scholar who adopted the Moslem religion and became chief adviser to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, Kim was born to rebellion. An "old boy" of an exclusive British public school, he was recruited by the Communists in 1934 while he was studying German in Vienna. His assignment: to penetrate British intelligence, no matter how long it took. The assignment paid off. After a stint covering the Spanish Civil War from the Franco side for the London Times, Philby made use of his old-boy ties and conservative credentials to get a job with...
...There will come a time when the stigma will be removed, when we will be able to marry the person of our choice without regard to color or race or religion, and with society's blessings. A time when persons of diverse backgrounds will marry and go unnoticed by the nation's news media, and the wagging tongues of our populace. When that day arrives, then we will indeed have won the battle against racial and religious intolerance...
...Encyclopédi and the Age of Reason, driven from place to place as a dangerous rebel, suspected of crime and insanity, and seeing, in his last months, the apotheosis of his greatest enemy-how did it come about that this man, after his death, triumphed over Voltaire, revived religion, transformed education, elevated the morals of France, inspired the Romantic movement and the French Revolution, influenced the philosophy of Kant and Schopenhauer, the plays of Schiller, the novels of Goethe, the poems of Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley, the socialism of Marx, the ethics of Tolstoi, and, altogether, had more effect...
Second, Archbishop Ramsey criticized the idea that it was Jesus' freedom which makes him significant for all time and that his religion and God are irrelevant. "He was not just free; He was free for a reason--to show the source of light beyond," the Archbishop answered. "Jesus was the living God of the Bible and had an existence...