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...feelings," she recalls, "that I went to the Bible looking for confirmation that it was wrong. And what I found was the exact opposite: support for cousin marriages." The patriarch Jacob married two of his first cousins, Rachel and Leah; Isaac and Rebekah were first cousins once removed. (The Roman Catholic Church has opposed cousin marriages for more than a millennium but gives dispensation to couples considered worthy.) Smith married Mark in 1999; this year she founded a group called CUDDLE--Cousins United to Defeat Discriminating Laws through Education...
...fact that an author might ask such questions led many publishers to pass on the book. Levine says one publishing house called her manuscript "radioactive"; another told her it lacked the "comforting messages" of a parenting tome. The book's timing, coming as the sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church unfolds, has not helped its cause. Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women for America's Culture and Family Institute, calls it an "academic cover for child molesters." Though the University of Minnesota said in a statement that it stands by the book as an "honest discussion about adolescent...
...addition to posters, an e-mail about the dance (subject line: Orgy) originally read, “ALL ROMAN VESTAL VIRGINS (Freshman Girls) will be allowed to partake of the festivities without charge (free)!! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA.” Shortly after, complaints from Mather residents elicited apologies from House Committee (HoCo) Co-Chair Emerson G. Farrell ’03. In part, his e-mail to the House read, “The topic of ‘freshman girls free’ was one which was done amidst the greater context of a goofy theme; standing alone, the policy would...
...Saturday night, the Mather House Committee held “Decadenza”—a House dance in the spirit of the Roman Empire’s wild orgies. A party with an orgy theme is a welcome addition to the Harvard social scene. Unfortunately, the Mather HoCo advertisements for Decadenza tainted the event by including the slogan “Freshman Girls Free” as a marketing ploy and advertising tactic...
Offering first-year women free admission to a Roman-style wild orgy party and calling them “vestal virgins” perpetuates the notion of the first-year girl as a commodity and novelty. The prevalent conception that first-year women are easy sexual targets for upperclass men is already a problem at Harvard; Decandenza’s advertisement only exacerbates this problem...