Word: stated
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Just last week, the state of Connecticut convened a special committee of administrators from public and private colleges throughout the state to discuss problems associated with credit cards on campus...
...Court of Appeals upheld a District decision gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support art, this peculiar interpretation of the Constitution counsels; but once you get in the game...
...same House that passed the First Amendment also voted, by an overwhelming margin, to set aside a national day of thanksgiving and prayer. An injunction against establishment was thus never meant to imply that government could not encourage a healthy respect for religion. It meant only that the state could not establish a specific creed, as had been the case in England...
...when government subsidizes empty desecration, devoid of any intellectual or artistic value, the state itself is making that determination--and this is the very evil a neutral First Amendment was supposed to guard against. So proponents of the mayor can still support his tough stand on a painting that callously juxtaposed the scatological with the divine, right? So it seems. Until, that is, they learn that Chris Ofili is a Roman Catholic who uses elephant feces as a symbol of fertility. On what possible grounds can we then deny funding to his affirmative interpretation of Christianity...
...after being wooed by a combination of Nancy Reagan and Cabernet leftover from the Nixon administration, Edmund Morris agreed to become Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. What Morris found, or, rather, didn't find, left him in such a state of despair that he went underground for years--quitting drink, staying home weekends and leaving his talents as a virtuoso pianist untapped. Morris spent his time reading the president's private diaries, watching old films and tracking down everyone from Reagan's high school flames to Colin Powell, only to discover that the President had a total lack of interest...