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...with White writing, said schools that permit outside organizations to meet on their property after class hours must extend the same right to religious groups. In a case involving the Afro-Cuban religion called Santeria, they also ruled that religious groups have a constitutional right to sacrifice animals in worship services. The Justices also unanimously backed the right of states to impose harsher sentences on assailants who commit hate crimes in which they choose their victims based on race, religion or other biases. "A physical assault," wrote Chief Justice William Rehnquist, "is not by any stretch of the imagination expressive...
...easy to tell a girl from a boy, however. Boys are the ones with earrings and long hair; girls are the ones with trousers and short hair. "Mother," of course, is the worst name you can call someone. That is because mothers are, in many contexts, objects of worship...
...Some of her sculpture has a strong political undercurrent, not in the feeble, travestied sense of much current "political art," but in a deeper level of articulation: "My whole life," she once remarked, "has been formed and deformed by wars and revolutions of various kinds, mass hatred and mass worship." To have lived in Poland through the successive waves of its disastrous history since 1939 -- right up to the post-Soviet present when, she wrote in 1990, "hand-to-hand-fighting has begun, each against each, zealously trying to drag everything toward a private nest" -- such a background cannot help...
...appears to be prepared to allow girls to serve at Roman Catholic Masses. The shift has nothing to do with complaints from American feminists. The Pope is simply considering a practice that is already established in some parishes. After details are worked out by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, the Vatican is expected to announce the policy later this year...
...supremely fitting that David Koresh fronted a rock-'n'-roll band because many kids look for the same things from a rock group that they do from a cult: a sense of belonging, a sense of worship and the feeling that what they're doing will drive their parents absolutely crazy. Singer Perry Farrell's previous band, the Los Angeles-based alternative-rock quartet Jane's Addiction, provided fans with concerts of pagan celebration: their music was bursting with guitar-powered Dionysian frenzy and golden calf-esque imagery (Bored with your lives, children...