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...even her grandmotherly ire against "liberalism" appeal strongly to Catholics nostalgic for the old church of certainty. As she proudly proclaimed in her 1993 diatribe, hers is "the Catholicity of the simple and the poor and the elderly." And as Jesus taught, she added, woe to those who would tamper with it. --Reported by Richard N. Ostling/Irondale
...Baptists like George Wallace were standing in the schoolhouse door and never-miss-a-Sunday Ku Klux Klansmen were murdering fellow Christians who believed in civil rights. Instead the message from many Southern Baptist pulpits was that God himself had ordained the separation of the races and that to tamper with it was to go against his will. "Just think of all the violence and bitterness we might have been spared if the Southern Baptists had repudiated racism sooner," says C. Eric Lincoln, a retired professor of religion at Duke University. "The country would have been 100 years ahead...
...late Senator Sam Ervin's admonition: "When religion controls government, political liberty dies, and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes." Notwithstanding persistent disclaimers, Reed and the Christian Coalition continue to raise genuine concerns that the powerful Coalition, in the name of one particular religious group, seeks to tamper with an incredibly successful constitutional arrangement between religion and state. DAVID A. HARRIS, Executive Director American Jewish Committee New York City...
...understand the administration's decision to tamper with the housing lottery. Self-segregation based on interests and ethnic background may be an understandable human phenomena, but it is not a pleasant one for people who hope to live in a pluralistic society. And so I would agree with the University's decision if I thought it would achieve some real kind of integration...
...those ways, invisible in Gramm's rhetoric, that government benefits all those who pay for it--might have to be cut to balance the budget. Gramm knows the score: after thundering away at those who "ride the wagon on welfare," he acknowledged to reporters that he would not tamper with Social Security to cut the deficit...