Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bring out the public vote that revoked the rights of gays in those places. Unfortunately, America is currently besieged by an army of religious zealots who see the Government and the ballot box as instruments for enforcing church dogma. If the trend continues, we'll have Government-enforced religion and the end of a 200-year-old democratic tradition. It's time church and state were separate once again...
...Bellow knew, fame can be a state as complicated as serious religion; at any rate, the vocabularies are sometimes interchanged. Terms like "immortal" get thrown around. The Beatles' boast in 1966 that "we're more popular than Jesus now" was a cheeky little blasphemy accurately located an intersection between Liverpool and Nazareth. In her book Fame, Susan Margolis noticed that "today the gifted as well as the deranged among us are struggling to be famous the way earlier Americans struggled to be saved...
Peterson is a practicing Mormon but he said that his religion is not a major factor in his decision. "It's more challenging in some ways to be a Mormon in Cambridge," he said. He added that the return to Utah is, in a sense, a "return to my 'roots...
Hutchison, Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, said yesterday that "five years was about as much as we could manage when both of us are working full time...
...Professor Hutchison," Maczuk adds, "is scary because he's so tall and he teaches religion, but he's always there...