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...slowness in taking steps to combat it, have left him open to the charge that his attention begins at the ocean's edge. The President betrayed his worries about such attacks last week when he responded to Buchanan's charges, "We must not pull back into some isolationist sphere, listening to this sirens' call of America first." Protectionism, Bush said, will only "shrink markets and throw people out of work...
...homosesxual community has used education to halt the exponential growth of AIDS within its sphere. Now we need intensive education for the dangerously unconcerned heterosexual community...
...business of endorsing one faith or another. Some members of the camp make their case on practical grounds: they insist that in a country with nearly 1,200 different religious bodies, the only way to keep the peace is to keep them all out of the shared public sphere. Too many wars have been fought, too many freedoms crushed in God's name, for a democracy to try to integrate theology into its public life...
During those years and beyond, churches enjoyed fairly free access to the public sphere. Before the Revolution, the Anglican church in Georgia was supported by a tax, and under the state's first constitution, only Protestants were allowed to sit in the legislature. When the Bill of Rights took effect, five of the 13 states had government-sponsored churches, and most schools were church-run. For literally centuries, until 1961, Maryland required officeholders to declare their belief in God. The problem is that as the nation's religious life grew more varied and its public life more complex, it became...
...ended with the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And in that flash, the Cold War began: The death and destruction in Japan and the American nuclear monopoly kept the Soviets on their guard. The U.S.-Japanese security agreement established the entire Pacific rim as a sphere of American control that the Soviet military machine could contest at its own peril...