Word: sectarianism
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...border lines of sectarian prerogatives are patrolled more carefully than most international frontiers. Before Easter, for instance, the Roman Catholics, who claim the privilege of cleaning the outside of the windows, make a demonstration of standing by and watching while the Greek Orthodox-who also claim the privilege-actually do the cleaning. The Armenian Apostolic Church still claims the Chapel of Nicodemus, now used by the Syrian Orthodox, though the Armenians declare they have the keys. At least three violent incidents have resulted-once over the repairing of one of the doors, once over the possession of a closet, once...
...open conflict with our established and constituted American pattern of life as specifically related to religious liberty, separation of church and state, the freedom of conscience in matters related to marriage and the family, the perpetuation of free public schools and the prohibition against use of public monies for sectarian purposes...
...speech in Oklahoma City in September, Al Smith fired back, denounced the efforts to "inject bigotry, hatred, intolerance and un-American sectarian division" into the campaign. "Let the people of this country decide this election upon the great and real issues of the campaign," he cried, "and upon nothing else...
...against psychiatry, society and orthodox religion, and soapboxes the reader's ears on the virtues of A. A. (which relies heavily upon religion). Starting from the premise that the alcoholic may be Everyman, Author Treat ironically seems to end up proving the opposite-that the alcoholic is a sectarian in a strange mystical brotherhood in which the only man who has the savvy to salvage a drunk is another drunk...
Taking over the leadership in 1951 at the death of ex-Prime Minister Ben Chifley, Evatt was immediately caught up in a bitter sectarian fight between Communists and Catholic Actionists inside the labor movement. When the Soviet Embassy defector Vladimir Petrov named two Evatt secretaries as accomplices in espionage (they were later cleared), Evatt appeared as their lawyer, thereby alienating the immigrant vote (many are refugees from Communism). Turning on the Catholic Actionists, Evatt antagonized many of the Irish Catholics who traditionally vote Labor. Conservative Robert Menzies has won a decisive victory in the last three elections...