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In March 1968, McCann was working on a Vietnam solidarity campaign in London, and went to Derry "for a fortnight's vacation." A Catholic family was about to be evicted from their house trailer by the Protestant government. Ten or twelve people dragged the trailer on to a road and...
Though Derry's 25,000 Catholics are half of the population of the city, they are crammed together in an area called Bogside. Most of the housing in the city is public, and the Protestant government doles it out to consolidate the Protestant vote. Though much of the working class...
IN NORTHERN Ireland, there are days for Protestant parades and there days for Catholic parades. There are Protestant routes and there are Catholic routes. In fact, Proestants and Catholics go to different schools and even learn different games.
Grinspoon suggested several cultural rationalizations for the ban on marijuana. He said that intoxication by marijuana is "an easily gained pleasure which was in conflict with the Protestant ethic of earning whatever is received."
Pope Paul's opponents on the issue concede the practical difficulties (which might, however, be alleviated if priests were allowed to support themselves in some secular line of work). As for the Scriptural evidence, some modern exegetes argue that Christ's speech about eunuchs refers to marital fidelity...