Word: shuns
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...said Sheldon, who has become a religious-right activist as head of the Traditional Values Coalition. He has plenty of company among clergymen -- even those who shun direct political involvement. Floyd Smith, pastor of West Virginia's Hedgesville Baptist Church, also rues his one Carter ballot: . "To vote for a person just because he's born again is a mistake I won't make a second time." Smith wants a President "who will fight for our rights" against pro-choice feminists, atheists, gay-rights activists and others who threaten his brand of morality. "We're getting it shoved...
...detractors obviously don't is that Cop Killer is just one more entry in pop music's long history of macho hyperbole and violent boast. Flip to the classic-rock station, and you might catch the Rolling Stones announcing "the time is right for violent revo-loo-shun!" from their 1968 hit Street Fighting Man. And where were the defenders of our law- ( enforcement officers when a white British group, the Clash, taunted its fans with the lyrics: "When they kick open your front door/ How you gonna come/ With your hands on your head/ Or on the trigger...
...flip side of Thomas' courtroom activism is his almost cloistered personal life. Friends say the Anita Hill episode left him "shattered" and "guarded," leading him to shun public appearances. He is now instinctively so averse to the press, they say, that he's no longer much of a newspaper reader. "An experience like that leaves scars," says a friend. "Clarence and his wife have both had to go through a healing process...
...Fitzpatrick of Fairfax, Va., coordinator of the WOC. She sees grass-roots protest mushrooming. "We're watching the inward collapse of the whole patriarchal structure of the Catholic Church." Another radical, Sister Maureen Fielder of Catholics Speak Out in Mount Rainier, Md., reports that hundreds of groups of Catholics shun church-as-usual. "I know plenty of women who get together and celebrate the Eucharist together," she says...
Such changes may not win big points in the parishes, however. TIME's poll shows that only 36% of Catholic women (but 48% of men) think worship should shun terms like "men" in referring to humanity. A mere 22% of women (and 27% of men) want the church to eliminate "he" or "Father" in praying...