Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applaud the Pope for reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church's stance on contraception [RELIGION, Dec. 3]. I chastise those who adopt the "cafeteria Catholic" attitude of choosing the beliefs that satisfy their secular and hedonistic desires. No one said that being a Catholic would be easy...
...creche cannot be considered secular in any way, and we therefore consider the Court's reasoning offensive to Christians, for it trivializes the significance of a hallowed symbol...
Your coverage of Indira Gandhi was too flattering. At best, she was a Soviet client who ruthlessly inflicted her dynastic rule and divided the people just as her British masters had done. India is neither democratic nor secular. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights needs to take a close look at Hindu India...
Jackson has staked out a new separatism in multiracial America, and it menaces the culture of our politics, for it challenges the bedrock faith of a nation whose secular theology is equality. Is America a nation of individual Americans or a nation of separate communities? If communities were to be given rewards and responsibilities distributed on lines of kinship, ancestry, skin color or religion, the Lebanonization of American politics might lie down the road. And then would come the Orientals, Caribbeans, Africans with other demands. Was ours a nation of separate groups? Or a nation of individual people clinging...
...have Sikhs like this around me, then I don't believe I have anything to fear." When the director of the country's central intelligence organization suggested to Mrs. Gandhi in July that Sikhs be removed from her security staff, she had refused. "How can we claim to be secular?" she had asked in a hastily scrawled note. Not far from Beant Singh stood Satwant Singh, 21, who had been assigned to Mrs. Gandhi's detail five months before...