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First Amendment sentinels like Wendy Kaminer, a lawyer and the author of Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and the Perils of Piety, fear that given America's overwhelmingly Christian cast, even neutral Bible instruction would amount to preferencing. "If you teach the Bible outside of close conjunction with other religions," she says, "then it becomes a kind of promotion of the majority faith. It becomes too hard for most folks to draw the line between teaching and preaching." Yet the American Jewish Congress's Stern, who has participated in Supreme Court establishment-clause-violation cases, sees Bible...
...Much has been made of Giuliani's likely troubles with religious conservatives in his party over abortion and gay rights. "Everyone really likes and respects the mayor personally," said Florida Republican strategist Brian Ballard, who has cast his lot with McCain. "But it's tough to take that record and run in a conservative primary...
...Councillors Craig A. Kelley and Henrietta Davis said that the Grant Street ash cast a pall on the claim that the city’s tree safety measures were working...
Because even if “the Man” does represent “the Patriarchy and hegemonic systems of power,” as the invitation said, this tendency to cast women as opposed to “the Man,” instead of having an identity in her own right, only furthers perception of the Man as primary and women as secondary. When women are wholly sure of ourselves, we will not need a women’s center, because we will recognize that the Science Center and the Barker Center are just as much ours...
...play at all,” Guha says. “Right from the beginning, we’ve taken it one step at a time. Seeing how the actors responded. Seeing how our set person responded to the script.” Benjamin explains that the experience of casting the show was appropriately unique. While some actors came from the Common Casting process, some were drawn from other sources. Alasdair R. Wilkins ’10 heard about the show through his participation in an improvisational troupe, the Immediate Gratification Players. Like Guha, Wilkins was drawn to Benjamin?...