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Sullivan said he thinks emphasizing the presence of love and friendship in homosexual relationships undermines the moral arguments against homosexual behavior put forth by the religious right, who claim to love the sinner, but not the sin...
Baker is back in the chaplain's sleeping room, a monk's cell with a TV on gimbals. He left the Southern Baptists but eventually found God again in Methodism, which he felt downplayed sin in favor of God's grace. In Baker's theology, illness and death are not divine punishment on one woman for her weaknesses but rather a symptom of our collective distance from God. Our first disobedience let chaos into our world: chaos can be human sin; it can be a genetic predisposition for cancer. We are all shattered vessels, and death must come...
...grand jury testimony, according to the transcripts, the courtroom resembled an Oprah studio taping. The woman who'd used broad smiles and cute pet names to soften up the Commander in Chief had turned the grand jurors to pudding. "We've all fallen short," one assured her. "We sin every...
What's striking is not the parallels between the events, but their enormous differences. Unlike Clinton, Jackson did not take months to come clean about his sin. Nor, in the end, did he try to hide behind semantic sophistry. After about a week of excruciating deliberation--made all the more painful because some of the black clergymen advising Jackson wanted him to continue lying in order to preserve his political viability--Jackson went into a synagogue in New Hampshire and delivered an abject apology. Later, at the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, he repeated his plea for forgiveness, insisting passionately...
...Williams also provides fresh insights into Marshall's ruthless role in the organization's tortured internal politics. Marshall had a hand in ousting not only W.E.B. DuBois, one of the N.A.A.C.P.'s founders, for his ties to communists, but also executive secretary Walter White, for committing the cardinal sin of marrying a white woman...