Word: religion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...memorial service at Adams House (Oct. 22) to remember Matthew Shepard and all other victims to hate crimes. We invite the Harvard community to join with us to find ways to ensure that no individual is ever victimized on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation or disability...
Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck, DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 will be honored by President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton in a White House ceremony...
...difficult and radical part of that agenda: the idea that same-sex relationships should not be morally, religiously or legally any different from opposite-sex ones. Marriage is lush with symbolism--pastors and vows, rings and rice--it's the civil heart through which the blood of state and religion both flow. "Going for marriage is like shooting for the moon," says Elizabeth Birch, head of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay political group. "It's our hardest issue, but success would bring the greatest rewards...
Four times this decade, Massie has co-sponsored antibias bills; four times they've died. There's no problem with enhanced penalties for crimes against race, religion or ethnicity, he's been told, but if he doesn't drop sexual orientation from the list, there's not a chance in hell. Other opponents argue against special legislation for any group or contend that existing laws are sufficient...
...Dalai Lama or Deepak Chopra or even Mark McGwire. This god is a geek who wears socks with his sandals. His name is Linus Torvalds. He's 28 years old, and his religion is called Linux, after a piece of computer code he wrote for kicks in 1991, while a student at the University of Helsinki, and then loosed upon the world...