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The gas tax is a punitive, Prohibition-style measure that would basically make average-income car owners suffer for having bought gas-using cars (even though there was no other kind of car for them to buy). Gas, like liquor and cigarettes, would be taxed like a sinful indulgence, allowing...
The black gowns returned the favor. Catherine Tekakwitha, a 24-year-old Iroquois virgin who died of self-mortification in 1680, having been convinced that her animal nature was sinful and must be scourged, was declared blessed by Pope John Paul II three centuries later. So ends a chronicle in...
During the uproar that followed the special issue's appearance, students and faculty members came forward to declare their homosexuality. But it was Gomes' revelation that triggered by far the most heated response. Last month a 50- member student group called Concerned Christians at Harvard was formed for the specific...
"[That homosexuality is sinful] is the views ofevery single church in America except the UnitedChurch of Christ," said Anderson.
The remarks of some Concerned Christians notwithstanding, the view that homosexual acts are sinful has never been a central item of Christian doctrine: and that Professor Gomes has struggled with the issue and come to a different conclusion from theirs, far from disabling him as a leader of the University...