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Since 1962, the United Farm Workers (UFW) of America and Cesar Chavez, its founders and president, have relied on the support and compassion of the American people. In the first grape boycott, from 1965 to 1970, farm workers and UFW volunteers, including many students, successfully convinced millions of Americans to...
The U.S. can do a much better job with the money it is spending by balancing compassion with realistic notions of what can be done. It is not possible to offer unlimited medical care to everyone, nor fair to cushion the well-to-do with vast public-health-care subsidies...
While Christian teaching calls for compassion and charity toward homosexual individuals, it explicitly states that homosexual behavior is sinful and should be discouraged. Homosexuals can only become full members of the Christian church when they admit the sinfulness of their actions and ask for forgiveness in the name of Christ...
Of course, one might argue in the name of Christian compassion that, though cruel, it is necessary to destroy homosexuals' belief that there are others like them. Gay people, as R. Wasinger points out in "If You're Gonna Call Me Names," clearly can not be happy, and must benefit...
These clever young men (they all appear to be that) are not distressed at the loss of virtue or values: they appear to bemoan the loss of power, the power to determine who will be sent to the stake and who will not. The well-modulated hysteria suggests at least...