Word: shall
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HOMOSEXUALITY. "Is homosexuality a disease? No! It is a sin," insists Preacher Joe Chambers of Paw Creek, N.C. His judgment is based on such Bible references as Leviticus 18: 22 ("You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination") and Romans 1: 27 ("men committing shameless acts with men"). Traditionalists thus believe that government should do nothing to recognize or encourage homosexual activity. In communities across the nation, Fundamentalists and other religionists are lobbying against homosexual-rights bills. They are alarmed by a federal court ruling applying the District of Columbia gay-rights...
...specifically, as stated in our legal briefs, is this: "The allegedly defamatory statements contained in the article need not be literally true for them to be protected, but rather must only be 'substantially true.'(There follow five legal citations which I'd be delighted to share with you, but shall not bother your readers with at this time.) Continuing. "As one court has phrased it, only 'the substance, the girl, the sting of the libelous charge' need be true for the speech to be protected. (More citations follow.) And so forth...
Under a clear, moonlit sky, the crowd joined in choruses of "We Shall Overcome" and listened to political speeches by representatives of the Black South African opposition...
...Soviet gave unanimous approval to his nomination, the dour, stoop-shouldered diplomat, variously known as Grim Grom and Dr. Nyet, accepted Gorbachev's praise and his new title in typically expressionless style. "It is not for me to judge whether I deserve such words or not," he said. "I shall make every effort to discharge with honor my duty to the party, to the country, to the people...
...they do. "Every house needs a door, and every country needs a border," says Colorado's Democratic Governor Richard Lamm. If the U.S. fails to stop illegal immigration, he warns, "we shall leave a legacy of strife, violence and job-lessness for our children." Florida's Senator Lawton Chiles is equally alarmist. "If we do not regain control of our borders . . . I think that within ten years, we will not recognize the United States as the United States we see today...