Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not encourage homosexuality. He created human beings who later decided, by their own free will, to become homosexuals. Homosexuality is sin; it cannot be justified by McNeill's mutilation of Scripture...
...surprising that talk of sin is what we Northerners are hearing from the South this election year; fundamentalist religion and absolutist values come naturally to a region whose dominant social sensibility is even now shaped by humiliation and betrayal...
...rambling response to a suggestion that he might be a "rigid, unbending President," Carter declared: "What Christ taught about most was pride, that one person should never think he was better than anybody else." That should have been sufficient, but Carter continued: "I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because I'm human and I'm tempted. And Christ set almost impossible standards for us. Christ said, 'I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust in his heart has already committed...
These days most politicians are happy to call themselves conservative, and liberalism has become the sin that dares not speak its name. The September issue of Commentary in a symposium called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...
What makes better sense, she says, than an upright and moral Baptist to appeal to the Republicans who can't respond to the Republican Party because of the institutional sin that Ford just swept under...