Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alter the church's antipathy to interracial marriage or examine the theological implications of the new policy. For one thing, Mormons hold that all people possess an unremembered spirit existence before birth. Discussing black priesthood in 1951, the First Presidency stated that the church rejects original sin and believes that each individual is punished in earthly life for his own failings. This implies, the Presidency said then, that "the Negro is punished or allotted to a certain position on this earth ... because of his failure to achieve other stature in the spirit world...
...ratio, states that homosexual behavior is always wrong. Given that premise, the conclusion is obvious. The Presbyterians could no more ordain openly practicing homosexuals than they could accept those who continually advocate or indulge in any other life-style that the church regards as sinful. The church thus rejected a liberal policy that had been proposed by a special task force. But the new document says that homosexuality should not be singled out as any worse a sin than pride, greed or adultery, and it denounces "homophobia" (hatred and fear of homosexuals). The nuanced policy admits the possibility of ordination...
...Joshua of the cast, which consists of three women and two men, is Nell Carter. Her remarkable voice can be as powerful as a trumpet and as plaintive as a flute, and when she sings Mean To Me and It's a Sin To Tell a Lie, she is like a whole orchestra. Her fellow performers -Armelia McQueen, Ken Page, Andr...
...like them," said the Rev. Ron Adrian, "but we just don't approve of their sin." Said the Rev. Ron Ballard, of Emporia, Kans.: "They were under no penalty prior to this law, nor are we advocating any new laws to persecute them. If their sexual preference is kept to themselves, that's within the range of what we can accept...
...remind readers of the fugitive youth in Jerzy Kosinki's The Painted Bird. Kaufman the avenger is also reminiscent of Kosinski's Cockpit and Blind Date. But there is a crucial difference. Kosinski's fiction is cold, clinical, beyond ideaology or feeling. In the Eighth Sin, vengeance is passionate, even humane. Though the book's structure is somewhat programmatic. Kaufer, a senior editor of time, has given the familiar documentary evidence of the death camps and their aftermath a persuasive and moving life in fiction...