Word: tantamount
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...phobia at all, in the sense that it is not a pathological fear. As Bunmi Olatunji, the author of a 2002 University of Arkansas study, summarized, homophobia is “not a conceptually accurate [term].” That is because homophobia implies a pathological disgust tantamount to anxiety or fear of homosexuality. In reality, participants in the Arkansas study reacted with “moral contempt” to homosexuality...
...grounds that it holds true for a variety of other widely taught scientific theories. Plate tectonics, for example or even Einstein's General Theory of Relativity fail to cover all bases. Still, ID'ers will counter, failing to teach kids about the scientific controversy over evolution is tantamount to keeping them ignorant. Except that there is no significant scientific controversy. ID proponents are correct in maintaining that there are legitimate scientists - a relatively tiny handful - who maintain that evolution is bogus science. But you can also find an equivalent handful of legitimate scientists ready to challenge relativity, or quantum physics...
...budget cuts, or some other disagreeable government policy Katrina would not have been an enormous disaster is disingenuous to the point of being an outright lie. The idea that we, as a country, have the resources to immediately airlift 50,000-odd people out of what is tantamount to a war zone, when virtually all civic infrastructure in New Orleans and its suburbs was destroyed or inoperable, suggests a shocking disengagement from reality...
...Either way, they've found a powerful champion in the President of the United States who has gone beyond advocating local control to say that school children "ought to be exposed" to a theory that critics describe as being tantamount to religion...
...should learn to accept adolescent sexuality and make guidance and birth control more easily available, as it is in parts of Europe. On the other side are those who contend that sex education is up to the parents, not the state, and that teaching children about birth control is tantamount to condoning promiscuity. Sex-education classes are simply "sales meetings" for abortion clinics, says Phyllis Schlafly, a leading right-to-lifer. In addition, she claims, there is simply no way to tell youngsters about contraception "without implicitly telling them that sex is O.K. You've put your Good Housekeeping seal...