Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generally find myself initiating a rear-guard recovery with phrases like, "Gee, I never really looked at it that way" and excuse myself as quickly as possible by running off to a ficticious section meeting or non-existent social obligation. It used to be an unwritten rule that sex, religion, and politics were never to be discussed at the table, but nowadays these subjects make the bulk of conversation. If they were banned from Harvard dining halls, we'd all be sitting in silence...
Carter's punishment is but the latest development in a 5 1/2-year litigation that could become a major constitutional test case on the limits of mixing religion and politics. Protestant and Jewish groups that disagree with Catholicism on abortion are deeply concerned about the case's religious- liberty implications. The suit by a group called Abortion Rights Mobilization, joined by 20 other pro-choice groups and individuals, is aimed at stripping the Catholic Church of its status as a tax-exempt religious organization. The suit is based upon section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, which states that...
...people calling themselves Christians to even indirectly finance a war of this nature is unconscionable. It abuses the memory of the individuals throughout history whose religion has moved them to relieve, not to perpetuate suffering; it inexcusably ignores the example of those religious figures with a gift for mediating disputes, not aggravating them...
...agrees with the majority, she increasingly carves out her own position. She wrote eleven concurrences in the court's last term, second only to William Brennan's 14. Some of those helped establish her influence on the thinking of her fellow Justices--for example, in constitutional questions regarding religion. Thus two years ago, she joined a 5-to-4 majority upholding the constitutionality of a town-sponsored Nativity scene in Rhode Island. With reasoning that Yale Law Professor Paul Gewirtz calls "extremely elegant," she sought in a concurring opinion to draw a line between government actions that accommodate religion...
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