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...Michael Sandel writes, in this week's issue of The New Republic, "Sports stadiums are the cathedrals of our civil religion, public spaces that gather people from different walks of life in rituals of loss and hope, profanity and prayer." Remembering the last no-hitter at the 161st street ballyard evoked those images of spirituality and hope...
...COMPEL PRAYER...
...think it is great that young adults are taking their faith very seriously by making religion a part of their everyday life through the use of after-school prayer clubs [NATION, April 27]. But I hope that these individuals respect non-Christians as well as the beliefs of different denominations. Maliciously forcing religion on other students in school tends to soil the name of Christianity. And young Christians who want to spread their religion must make sure they are not harming others. SHELLEY PIENTKA Emporia, Kans...
...billion appropriation for the International Monetary Fund in a dispute with the Clinton White House over an antiabortion provision in a separate bill. And there's more to come. In June the House will consider Istook's Religious Freedom amendment to the Constitution, which would allow organized prayer in public schools. And before August, for the third time in three years, they will vote to outlaw "partial birth" abortions. The fact that much of this agenda will either die in the Senate or be vetoed by Clinton doesn't matter: the votes are about making politics...
...Arkansas militia seeking vengeance. Parts of the note, he says, read ominously: "Mitchell must die. It might be tomorrow or next week or at the hearing...Or it might be after they are in detention. But we can get to Mitchell, and we will. Our only hope and prayer is that nobody beats us to him first...