Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been unfaithful. Of those respondents, 62% said they "thought less" of the adulterous husbands, while 56% "thought less" of the adulterous wives. These numbers are significantly lower than the previously cited condemnations of adultery in the abstract, suggesting that Americans tend to follow the dictum of hating the sin, not the sinner...
...content of his character, not the color of his skin,[5] he would have been given his walking papers. Not me. I say that if the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit.[6] In Barnicle's case, the punishment fit the crime.[7] He should go and sin no more...
...with the alluring Sissel, a seemingly feisty girl whose parents' recent separation makes her feel as though she no longer has a place in the house in which she was raised. Sissel's father, Henry, is fully aware of the fact that she and Joey are "living in sin," but he tacitly approves--in fact, their relationship gives him access to Joey's energy and desire to do something useful. No sooner does Henry suggest that they could be great partners if Joey ever established an eel-trapping business, then Joey spends $50 to purchase materials and start building...
Before I stepped through those doors on Main Street, I never really thought about what "a den of sin" would look like. But after spending more than two hours in Big Al's on a busy Thursday night, I have a pretty good idea. Women dancing on stage wearing nothing more than spiked heels. A big, shiny brass pole. Men--some dressed in neatly pressed khakis and polo shirts, others still talking about the last long shift at the local plant--drinking beer, enjoying lap dances, burying their heads in the dancers' bare chests...
...Exodus International, a ministry that believes gayness can be overcome by "ongoing submission to the Lordship of Christ." The ad quotes extensively from "The Other Way Out: The Stories of John and Anne Paulk" (and thanks Trent Lott for having the courage to speak the truth about sexual sin). Anne's story is rather chaste: she had several "fleeting" relationships with women in college and a significant one afterward. Even so, she insists that her life-style eventually eroded into "deception, and emotional instability." John is a character out of a Lifetime mini-series. There was Curt, his first love...