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Bowen's attorney, Wendy Murphy, says her client had nothing to do with the protest, which was organized by PAVE (Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment), a Chicago-based advocacy group for rape victims. "She supports the protestors and is glad they are there and signed the online petition, but that's it," said Murphy in an e-mail. But since Bowen has decided to take her language-ban appeal to the federal district court, she and her lawyer have begun soliciting support from PAVE and other national advocacy groups...
...Jean Bethke Elshtain, a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, shares Land's conviction that the Bible doesn't mandate Sanctuary participation. She writes that the prooftexts refer to a situation where "there is a terrified, perhaps bleeding, usually hungry person at one's door and one takes him or her in. It has nothing to do with countries or nation states, and once one starts to move to big collectivities it gets much trickier...
...math doesn't render Obama's Chicago-Iraq analogy totally null and void. On the one hand, the point is statistically unhinged, like comparing the GDP of different countries without knowing the currency. On the other hand, politics isn't math...
...saying something true, regardless of how you slice through the statistics," says Dan Kahan, a Yale Law professor who has spent years studying how Americans perceive gun risks. "It's a salient way to bring people's attention to an empathy deficit. The failure of this group [of Chicago school kids] to register tells us something about ourselves...
...Given that profound disconnect, the Baghdad-in-Chicago analogy is tactically limited, as well as mathematically flawed. Of course, at this stage of the race, politicians are not necessarily looking to convert anyone. They are looking to mobilize their base. And indeed, Obama's speech got him a standing ovation at that church in Chicago. So we can expect to hear more such analogies - right up until the primaries are over. Then the math may get even fuzzier...