Word: misconduct
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Excommunications do occur in many Mormon congregations, usually involving sexual misconduct or apostasy-and no publicity. The Mormons gave up polygamy in 1890, but though the church, for example, favors equal pay for equal work, it strongly opposes the ERA, fearing a threat to morality and family life. The church does not allow women in its priesthood (its term for all laymen eligible to hold office). The ruling against Johnson was issued after a closed-door hearing that made national headlines and TV. It was delivered by CIA Personnel Officer Jeffery Willis, her local bishop (a layman who serves...
...German officials have rejected the efforts of several thousand gypsy survivors of the war to establish citizenship in the Federal Republic, even though their families have lived in Germany for generations. What particularly galls gypsy leaders is that these rejections seem to be based on Nazi records of alleged misconduct. Says Rose: "No postwar German government has acknowledged our suffering. They agonize over the Jews, and rightly. But they have ignored...
...three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry of attacks on the nation's press, but the minister's own suicide note reviled a judicial system gone wrong...
...trespass on the property of the Seabrook power plant, he said the suit would assert that the lawful remedy to suspected trespass is arrest and legal prosecution. The police used tactics justified only in cases where arrest is resisted, he said, adding that the tactics used constituted "police misconduct" and "deprivation of the right to due process...
Kunstler also said widespread misconduct in the American judicial system threatens the rights of defendants