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...rise to the presidency on Jan. 20, after Joseph Estrada was swept from office in a popular uprising. Filipinos definitely wanted Estrada out, on corruption charges, but they were less sure they wanted Macapagal-Arroyo to replace him. It was only after the military and Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin, head of the country's Catholic church, threw their support behind Macapagal-Arroyo, then vice-president, that she vaulted to power. Even today, according to one poll, Filipinos only give her a 34% approval rating...
...What alarms many intellectuals is how the church was involved in the dismissal of Tiongson as chief censor. He is a respected film critic and media professor. Archbishop Sin harangued Tiongson, a onetime seminarian, for being "ineffectual and lacking backbone" when he refused to ban the film. Tiongson's only conduit to the presidential office was through one of the archbishop's aides. "Morality is the church's business, fine," says Tiongson. "But this was meddling in the state." He resigned last Tuesday and was replaced by Alejandro Roces, 76, a former education secretary, who told TIME that the last...
...Sexuality is not a sin, but sexuality is a problem for everybody," Gomes said. "Anything as powerful as a sexual identity has the potential to come between...
...immediately submitted his letter of resignation. Harvard gave the Ginger family the monetary equivalent of the two remaining months of his contract, contingent on their rapid departure from Massachusetts. The quality of Raymond Ginger’s teaching and scholarship was never challenged, and the University committed a grave sin against academic freedom by forcing him out on the basis of his political views...
...pretty fantastic, I admit. It's hard to imagine anyone writing such a thing, since it would obviously offend some people, and would therefore be wrong. Very wrong. So wrong, in fact, that the publication that printed such offensive dreck could hardly apologize fast enough for its terrible sin...