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...years, beginning in the '50s, Moon wrote and rewrote the Divine Principle. According to him, Jesus was supposed to marry an ideal wife and begin the "perfect family." He failed in this endeavor because he was crucified by his own people. For this reason Jews suffer from "collective sin...
...sin may not have been all that original in the U.S. Congress, but the public confession certainly was. After two days of lying about it, Ohio Democrat Wayne Hays stood in an unusually hushed House chamber and admitted that he had carried on an affair with Elizabeth Ray, 33, whom he employed as a $14,000-a-year committee clerk although she claims that she can neither type nor file. The portly Congressman, 65, who in January divorced one wife after 38 years of marriage and six weeks ago wed his secretary, denied only that Miss Ray's federal...
Last week the gays received a setback, when the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in Baltimore voted that it would be "injudicious if not improper" to ordain homosexuals. After a two-hour session the church reaffirmed its position that "the practice of homosexuality is a sin." However, the delegates also voted to undertake a study of the "perplexing" question of homosexuality, leaving the door open a crack for gays in the future. Said the final report: "We do not believe that a position taken in any period sets forth the final understanding of His Word to the Church...
Emmylou Harris' latest is Elite Hotel, (Reprise) and if you've heard the two singles off it, "Together Again" and "Sweet Dreams", I don't blame you for not wanting to hear the rest. But those don't belong on the same record with the other songs. "Sin City" and "One of these Days" are perfectly suited to her--beautiful songs with painful, longing lyrics. Her own composition, "Amarillo", a ballad about losing her lover to a pinball machine, shows a nice sense of humor...
...doesn't wrench a person outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. Mary, the Eternal Woman, is indeed typical, for she cannot deal straightforwardly with sexuality, and her virginity has nothing to do with her reservations and furtive denial of desire. Christ is rarely lucid. Perhaps the burden of sin makes him appear half-witted a lot of the time, and his body is wracked by hoarse coughing and as wasted as a consumptive's. He is also referred...