Word: sectarian
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...recent case of Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, the liberals of the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in history that taxpayers' money can be used to support sectarian religious proselytizing. In this decision, the Court mandated that a state run university must subsidize an evangelical Christian student newspaper titled Wide Awake, which aims not only at discussing ideas about religion, but also at converting its readers and persuading them to repent and avoid hellfire by initiating a personal relationship with Christ...
...Establishment Clause was written by the predecessors of today's anti-religious liberal nuts. It was drafted with the diabolical purpose of guarding against the levying of taxes for the support of religious activities, a practice that was all too common in the early colonies. Today, a grossly sectarian and evangelical newspaper receives state funding, money that has been taken from everyone's pockets--Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and atheists...
Christmas has come to Harvard, and once again its arrival is accompanied by sickening hypocrisy. Decorated fir trees, green wreaths and red ribbons are Christmas decorations, not non-sectarian seasonal garnishes. Those in the Christian majority can claim otherwise until they're blue in the face, but they're not convincing any-one. Even if the trees and wreaths have no direct religious significance, they are cultural banners of a religious celebration--a celebration not shared by everyone...
...Afghanistan certainly did. Diplomats and executives from many Western companies fled Pakistan, fearing revenge attacks by supporters of Saudi extremist Osama bin Laden, the intended target of the American raid. In the port city of Karachi, ethnic gangs armed with grenades and machine guns prowl neighborhoods hunting for enemies. Sectarian rivalry among Muslims has become so fierce that some clergymen post bodyguards at their mosques to guard against bomb throwers speeding by on motorcycles. In Karachi, kidnappings of clergymen have become routine; their mosques are then seized by adversaries who try to convert the prayergoers to a harsher vision...
...dying was supposed to be over in Northern Ireland since Good Friday, when the sectarian communities that had killed and cried for more than 30 years accepted a peace agreement for sharing power designed to allow both sides to live and let live. But an impassioned Protestant minority refuses to accept the peace agreement, and so they set themselves to defy a ruling by the government's new Parades Commission...