Word: sanctions
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...Catholic Church does not allow homosexuals to marry, nor does it sanction sex outside of marriage for individuals of any orientation. This is based on the doctrine that sex is a blessing given to us for the dual purpose of procreation and strengthening the marital bond, and that to use it otherwise would be to misuse the gift of sex. The Church’s current teaching on homosexuality and marriage creates a difficult situation for homosexual Catholics who may feel called to dedicate their lives to another individual in the sight of God, as heterosexual Catholic couples...
India's ruling party, the BJP, reveres Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul and his writings on India's growing self-confidence, in part because the esteemed author appears to sanction the party's Hindu-nationalistic agenda. So it must have stung last week when Naipaul expressed "profound disappointment" with the government's crackdown on news website Tehelka. The muckraking site made a splash nearly two years ago with a sting operation that exposed Defense Ministry officials accepting bribes. After promising to investigate the matter, a government commission has done little since but investigate Tehelka and freeze the assets of its financier...
...international terrorism, reform the nations that support it and neutralize rogue states that seek to possess weapons of mass destruction. Much commentary on the Bush doctrine has stressed its toughness--the way, for example, that the Administration claims the right to take military action on its own, without U.N. sanction. All of this is said to be of a piece with the Administration's supposed arrogance in international affairs, with its claims that the Kyoto accord on global warming or the treaty on the International Criminal Court should not apply to the sole superpower...
...natural confines and into metropolitan America. With no legitimate channels for political discourse, Arabs have suffered from what Queen Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen up the defense of the American homeland. What is needed, rather, is a Wilsonian project to assist the development of peace, democracy and prosperity in the Middle East. And that...
...Cavanagh accusing Buell—equally tenured—of somehow being more receptive to whatever evil vapors he believes Summers expels? Is Cavanagh questioning Buell’s judgment? If Summers’ “bigotry is showing” by opposing a poet who appears to sanction homicide, then what does that presume about Cavanagh’s position...