Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this was not surprising: Makarios has been the hub of Cyprus' political ambiguities ever since he was elected archbishop of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus in 1950 and assumed the traditional title of ethnarch (literally ethnic or national leader). Like a medieval Pope, the ethnarch is both a secular and religious leader. Makarios practiced the politics but preferred the spiritual title. He wanted to be addressed formally as "Your Beatitude...
...running in the Democratic primary for mayor: "If we go easy on the looters, we are obliterating the moral distinction between them and the vast majority of poor people who are law-abiding." As an alternative to prison, the New York Amsterdam News, the nation's largest secular black weekly (circ.: 67,000), suggested that the looters be given "a year of hard labor in the streets," rebuilding the stores they devastated...
...this. "It's not my home; it's yours," Begin earnestly told several hundred visitors who showed up for the first session. Begin as a good politician is constantly visible attending bar mitzvahs and berit (circumcision rites), or praying at the Wailing Wall. Unlike Rabin, a secular-minded sabra, Begin is a deeply religious man who seems quite comfortable with yarmulke, shawl and prayer book. The Premier even paid a preflight call on his old antagonist Golda Meir at her home near Tel Aviv to secure her blessing for his White House talks...
...revealed word, which provided both strength and comfort. He also found occasion, said the his torian, to interpret as the Lord's will convictions that other men attributed to less remote sources, and to find considerable moral content in issues that other men felt were secular and casual. Because of this, the President sometimes relied less upon facts than upon intuition in making up his mind...
Much of Western opposition to homosexuality is based on Judeo-Christian teachings, particularly biblical prohibitions ("Thou shall not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is an abomination"). Laws based strictly on religious injunctions are unconstitutional unless they serve a compelling secular purpose. In the case of antihomosexual statutes, the social goals are vague and difficult to pinpoint but real to most people. Some law writers say such statutes preserve the American family concept. Others suggest that they guarantee continued propagation of the species. Still others say the goal is discouragement of promiscuity, or the adherence to a philosophical-moralistic...