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...pivotal effort in any civil suit is to enlist the sympathy of jurors, to make them want to help. One prospective juror was excused last week when she said, in response to questioning, that she would have trouble being objective because "the sin of hypocrisy is worse than adultery." By that standard, both sides in this trial might be in trouble...
...Philadelphia willing to print the pamphlet he called Common Sense. It was too fiery, he was told, too seditious, and at this point a more cautious man might have learned to seal his lips. But finally a fellow radical, notorious, among other things, for living openly "in sin," agreed to roll the presses. Common Sense was born, with its great news that Americans had it in their power to overthrow the "crowned ruffians," the "royal brute," and "begin the world over again...
Playing the devil's advocate is Father Andrew M. Greeley's favorite avocation. His novels continually irritate the church he serves, by revealing Vatican politics and presenting flawed priests. The narrator of An Occasion of Sin (Putnam; 352 pages; $19.95) puts forth the most imperfect of them all. The scurrilous, irritable Father Lar McAuliffe is assigned to test the claims of sainthood for his late detested colleague, John Cardinal McGlynn, martyred in Nicaragua. Father Lar rubs his hands in anticipation -- he knows all about the Cardinal's mistress, his alcoholism and his rumored misuse of church funds...
RELIGION Protestantism is in turmoil over God, sex and sin...
...debate over sexual morality is least strident in the nation's growing Evangelical and Fundamentalist churches, in which literalist interpretations of the Bible are embraced and heterosexual marriage is the only state in which sex is without sin. Nonetheless, these groups are taking part in the debate from the sidelines. Two weeks ago, the 15 million-member Southern Baptist Convention pleaded for "all Christians to uphold the biblical standard of human sexuality against all onslaughts...