Word: certainly
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...friend and I were talking last week about how we were not going to be in town this day," said Elizabeth Mason, a civil rights attorney who represents sexual-abuse victims. "Every day I'm vigilant about my personal safety, and most women here feel that. But there are certain events that I stay away from, and this parade is one." Past Puerto Rican parades have brought complaints of groping, but not on this scale. Much of the anger appeared to be aimed at Latino macho culture, but in a city where diversity is part of the ideological dictate...
This may seem like theological hair splitting, but it struck some Baptist observers as symptomatic of the leadership's worst faults. When the Bible is interpreted through Christ, a believer is granted a certain latitude, because in Protestantism each Christian's experience of the Saviour is incontestably his or her own, unmediated by priest or minister. The new language, critics charged, represented not just a confining literalism but a ceding of personal power to the denomination's scriptural experts. They saw in it a yen for uniformity and orthodoxy that seemed anti-Baptist...
...just conveying my understanding of the deeply felt religious perspectives that are timeless. I struggle to put those in a context that makes sense for callers. What the brilliant rabbis have done is take certain laws from the Bible and values of responsibility and honor and apply them to modern ideas. I struggle to do the same - understand the religious Scriptures and apply them to the dilemmas we have today...
...their families who have heard this rhetoric, which is untrue, and that has caused pain. To me, the folks who have an objection don't really listen to the show and are being disingenuous about their objections. It's about dialogue, which is pretty much squelched with respect to certain things...
...guns and ride out the storm. Of course, the public, as Bush likes to remind us, is on the governor's side: While fewer Americans support the death penalty today than the last low ebb in 1981, 66 percent still approve - a figure that should inspire a certain amount of confidence in the Bush camp. The other ray of sunshine for the Bush camp? Al Gore, who also supports the death penalty, has kept his mouth shut as Bush struggles with this issue, a sure sign the vice president wants nothing to do with the debate. When Gore makes forehead...