Word: roman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. were supporting Bill Clinton's health plan years before he was born. Universal coverage? In 1919 they wrote, "The state should make comprehensive provision for insurance against illness, invalidity . . . and old age." Employer mandate? They stated that the "insurance fund should be raised by a levy on industry." Sometimes dubbed socialists for their troubles, the bishops defended these radical notions for the next 75 years...
...monarchy, Prince Charles' TV confession was a fiasco. It's hard to fathom how the embattled heir to the throne could replay 1992, the year his mother called her annus horribilis, but he has managed it. The tattle about his relationship with the married -- and Roman Catholic -- Camilla Parker Bowles had died down, but the scandal is back on the front page. Charles also showed a blithe disregard for his nation's constitution in revealing that he wants the coronation oath changed so he can be defender of all faiths, not just the Church of England -- breaking a 460-year...
...Nationalism and Socialism: Eastern Europe (1772-1991)" will survey the development of the ideologies in what is today Poland, the Ukraine and Lithuania. The course, led by Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukranian History Roman Szporluk, will also look at Germany's role in the region during that time...
...spousal equivalents," all but eight states allow employers to fire people just for being gay. Sexually active gays remain unwelcome in many mainstream Christian churches. Denominations that are more accommodating face fractious internal dissent -- as happened last week, when an Episcopal congregation in Arlington, Texas, voted to switch to Roman Catholicism, in large part over some Episcopalians' willingness to bless same-sex marriages...
...similar step-by-step process worked in liberal but heavily Roman Catholic Massachusetts, where a gay-rights bill was enacted in 1989 after 17 years of legislative debate. By 1992, a third of all candidates for state legislature sought endorsement from the 15,000-member Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus; this year, all four gubernatorial hopefuls support gay rights. The Massachusetts Board of Education last year adopted, unanimously, the nation's first state educational policy prohibiting discrimination against gay elementary and secondary students. Last December, Governor William Weld signed a similar bill into...