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...Presbyterians to say that homosexuality is no more a sin than pride, greed or adultery is absurd...
They came from Ohio and Massachusetts and Missouri. There is no memory of their having taken to the pavement in the past. For decades businessmen big and small have been the target of much political contempt and odium, often with justification. They were the representatives of profit and greed (a distinction rarely made), purveyors of shoddy products and pollution. Businessmen searched for influence in the subterranean corridors of power, using lawyers and fixers, fearful of bureaucrats, reporters and sunshine...
...advocate or indulge in any other life-style that the church regards as sinful. The church thus rejected a liberal policy that had been proposed by a special task force. But the new document says that homosexuality should not be singled out as any worse a sin than pride, greed or adultery, and it denounces "homophobia" (hatred and fear of homosexuals). The nuanced policy admits the possibility of ordination for people with a homosexual orientation, so long as they are "repentant" and committed to celibacy. It directs presbyteries not to quiz ministerial candidates about homosexuality unless they themselves have raised...
Beyond ignorance, fear and greed, such actions are emblematic of the moral degradation visited upon the Soviet people by the regime, Solzhenitsyn believes. It is scarcely surprising, then, that he experienced a stab of regret when he was re leased from the camp in 1953: "Only on the threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse...
...never knew about it until too late, until the United States had sunk millions of dollars into a vain anti-MPLA fight. The fight was in vain from the start, because, of the two alternatives to the MPLA in Angola, one (the FNLA) was an extension of Zaire's greed to acquire as much of Angola as they could, and the other (UNITA) became South Africa's pet project in Angola. The United States was the only country in the world blind enough not to know that willing association with the South African regime completely discredited anyone claiming...