Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't do sports. I wouldn't change for anyone, but I went to two at-home games. It was great to be with the gang, but it didn't really change anything. The kids hit me and pushed me around, and finally I stopped going. My parents support my being here because they support my being in school. They're handling my being gay, so I guess they're handling my being here." So far, eight students have graduated from Harvey Milk; a handful of others have returned to mainstream schools...
...Saavedra had been nominated for re-election in a splashy party convention, and he launched a surprisingly effective grass- roots campaign, while opposition candidate Violeta Barrios de Chamorro got off to a pathetic start. Best of all, the 10,000-man army of insurgent contras, deprived of U.S. military support, was skulking in Honduras under a regional peace accord ordering them to disband in early December...
...military terms, the impact of lifting the cease-fire remains unclear. Throughout the cease-fire, government troops continued to break up the contras' support network in the provinces, and rebels staged sporadic attacks against the army. Now those occasional engagements could escalate. At least 2,000 contra guerrillas are inside Nicaragua, and there is little doubt that more have been infiltrating the country during recent weeks. On Friday the Sandinista army said it had begun offensive operations against the rebels in nine of the country's 16 provinces...
...Vatican has also ordered bishops to withdraw support from groups that either are "ambiguous" or "neglect" the church's teaching. That was aimed especially at Dignity/USA, an organization that has 5,000 members in 100 chapters and formerly held Masses with church approval in dozens of cities. In the wake of that attack, the national Dignity convention last September declared clear-cut opposition to the church's moral teaching...
Catholic teaching holds that all homosexual acts are sinful, though a homosexual orientation is not. There are U.S. Catholic bishops willing to ordain priests with homosexual proclivities as long as they promise to remain celibate and support church teaching on the topic. But in practice, the barrier between homosexual orientation and homosexual activity is difficult to maintain. No doubt aware of that, the Vatican issued a sharp decree in October 1986 that is known among enraged gay Catholics as the "Halloween letter." The text warned that homosexual inclination tends "toward an intrinsic moral evil" and "must be seen...