Word: secularist
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...they have also been enthralled by the most intolerant of their interest groups. The liberal hostility to funding faith-based social programs-which are provided mostly by poor black and Latino congregations who need the financial help-is a witlessly secularist reaction against some of the most successful antipoverty efforts in the U.S. The liberals' defense of abortion beyond the first trimester has no moral rationale unless the life of the mother is at risk...
...Religion is less accountable to logic” and also (2) “Wielding religion as a political tool is unacceptable and downright wrong.” By saying this, Itoh unwittingly explains why those of faith feel maligned and rejected by the Democratic Party. I am a secularist and have no religious faith, but feel others are given the right under the constitution to express their religious faith. Common sense explains that those who have a faith wed their principles to their religious underpinnings. These folks are citizens and have a right to join in the political process...
...campaign, George Bush sneered “Massachusetts” like it was a four-letter word. Not since the elder George Bush deployed the same thirteen-letter epithet against Michael Dukakis had a state been appropriated as an adjective to connote such out-of-touch, weak-kneed, secularist, elitist, tax-hiking Un-Americanism. Tragically, though maybe not surprisingly, it resonated on both occasions...
...intercourse with someone other than their lawful spouse. Verheugen was not impressed. "Turkey should not give other countries the impression that it's putting Islamic elements into its legal system," he told the newspaper Vatan. Parliament is expected to approve the package but President Ahmet Necdet Sezer - a staunch secularist - may well use his veto. Still, Erdogan's conservative allies "have proved that when they wanted to they could put their foot down," Mehmet Ali Birand, a political commentator, told TIME. Party politics - nothing un-European about that...
...have set up a new "counter-terror watch" desk, staffed around the clock, to assess and disseminate leads and threats faster and more adroitly to field agents and state and local authorities. Until now, few of these threats have been linked with Saddam Hussein. And since he is a secularist, some feel he may have less support among potential terrorists in the radical Muslim community. "But on the other side of the equation," says a senior counter-terror agent, "you will get a number of people who see the war against Iraq as a Western attack against Islam. A number...