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According to Religious Literacy, polls show that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the Bible holds the answers to "all or most of life's basic questions," but pollster George Gallup has dubbed us "a nation of biblical illiterates." Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel. Most can't name the Bible's first book. The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only 44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount...
...engagement with a variety of perspectives—both in the classroom and through extracurricular activity. To bar extracurricular discourse on sexuality in the name of a conservative and intolerant notion of social propriety violates this sacrosanct educational mission, instead reinforcing a discriminatory practice and denying students their basic right to information...
...also between Abbas and the Palestinian public. "To the man and woman in the street, it seems that Abu Mazen [Abbas] is carrying out the orders of Israel and America," says the Fatah Central Committee member. Hamas legislators plan to oppose the move on the grounds that the Palestinian Basic Law forbids members of the legislature from serving in cabinet-level positions...
...professors, undergraduates, and teaching fellows. Mangelsdorf Professor of Natural Sciences J. Woodland Hastings, one of the lecturers, gave a talk called “Fireflies and Phosphorescent Seas: How and Why Animals Produce Light.” The conference also featured experiments performed live, which taught the children about basic reactions through demonstrations such as “Baking Soda and Vinegar: A Chemical Reaction” and “Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream.” One of the undergraduate volunteers running the ice cream experiment asked the young members in the audience, “Anyone know...
...fear or a misunderstanding that if a scientific causation of homosexuality were discovered that that somehow removes the moral responsibility of the persons making these choices," he said. "But that is not true. The Scripture doesn't say we are responsible only for the temptations we choose. The basic sinfulness of homosexuality, that wouldn't change...