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...discount majority sentiment in order to rectify the situation. While some religious organizations voiced outrage following the announcement, the Court’s decision in no way infringes on private congregations, since they remain free to perform and recognize only those unions they deem legitimate. The public sphere cannot and should not base its marriage legislation on the concerns of specific religious congregations, so long as legislation does not require these faiths to act against their principles. Since any church, temple or mosque can continue to marry only a man and a woman without breaking the law, religious objections should...
...Perhaps organizational involvement is the key. One relatively reliable indicator of someone’s celebrity status is the number of e-mail lists he appears on. On this count, again, I fail. The closest I ever came to celebrity-esque domination of the e-mail sphere was when I inadvertently stayed on the Speech and Debate mailing list all last year because I couldn’t figure out how to remove myself...
...Kerstin, 19, have now come blinking into the world. While Austria recoils in horror at the crime that produced the children, and grapples with how it remained undiscovered for so long, the Fritzls have a more basic challenge ahead of them: survival. Can children constrained to such a stunted sphere adjust to the world's cacophony? And what can modern science and medicine do to help...
...that the government will likely need to play a very large role in balancing global warming, and that very fact could turn off conservatives. But for all their talk of small government, most conservatives have long been comfortable with a Washington that is very active in the national security sphere, to say the least - and there's growing evidence that climate change could be as much a security threat as it is an environmental one. Crafting a truly bipartisan approach to global warming won't be easy - but it is necessary, and the fact that people like Gingrich have joined...
...most basic function of ActBlue is enabling people to donate money to their favorite candidates online, and in small increments. Students and others who can only afford to make small donations can do so with the click of a mouse, allowing them to become active in the political sphere that they would otherwise have difficulty accessing...