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2) Discrimination against homosexuals. The other issue by which we know Colin Powell is his opposition of allowing gays to serve in the military. Sure enough, the second most hotly disputed issue of campus during the last four years has been the issue of homosexual rights. The ROTC issue, homophobic...
Above all Reno needed to know how Koresh would react to being pushed and whether the others inside would follow him, even unto death. Koresh held over them all the power of the Apocalypse; he was the Lamb of Revelation, who alone could open the seven seals and foresee the...
All of it just confirmed his power in the eyes of his flock. And for anyone who thought it odd that a holy man lived out a teenage boy's sexual fantasy, Koresh had a mangled theological rationale. He was Jesus Christ in sinful form, who because he indulged the...
And, paradoxically, faith. Science is nothing if not a spiritual undertaking. The idea that nature forms some sort of coherent whole, a universe, ruled by laws accessible to us, is a faith. The creation and end of the universe are theological notions, not astronomical ones.
Often school board members have narrow moralistic or theological agendas. In California, so-called "stealth candidates" from the religious right a tempted to snag positions on community school boards, meeting with considerable success. One of their aims: to change the science curriculum by either eliminating evolutionary theory or including creationism...