Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hehir, professor of practice in religion and society at HDS and faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs...
...Frank Fodera, who made a $2.7 million offer to the Swedenborg School of Religion to buy the chapel in February, reportedly planned to raze the bulk of the chapel and build a housing development...
...Until that happens, the building, if sold by a financially strapped School of Religion, could still cease to be a church...
Gaither's death has become a rallying point for gay-rights organizations' and state legislators' pushing a bill that would extend Alabama's three-year-old hate-crimes law beyond race, color, religion and national origin to cover crimes related to sexual orientation as well. "It's unfortunate that somebody had to lose his life in order for this legislation to pick up momentum here in the state of Alabama," says state Representative Alvin Holmes, who failed to get the original law amended when it was passed in 1996. Holmes filed for extending the law after Matthew Shepard...
...most object to the common features of these post-everything trends: the disdain for Western civilization and popular culture, the denial of the desirability or universality of human rights, the denigration of the ability of individuals to be autonomous moral agents, and a magnanimous disrespect for religion, science and aesthetics...