Word: reforms
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...brunt of the statement is a call to reform the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and to reduce instances of police impropriety...
...leaders of Reform Judaism may have stopped just short of using the "M" word, but in confirming that America's largest rabbinical group would stand behind members who perform gay unions, many believe it took another brick from the wall that separates gays from mainstream America. Religion experts, however, say the biggest short-term impact of the decision may be to widen the gap between the Reform movement and other Jewish denominations and between Jews and other religions. Orthodox and Conservative rabbis, as well as some Christian groups, were quick to criticize the decision, saying it violates the teachings...
...move is by no means the first instance of groundbreaking for the Reform movement, which believes that biblical edicts should be interpreted in light of the times in which they were written. When Reform congregations allowed the ordination of female clergy, they incurred the wrath of their more conservative co-religionists, and though they drew some members away from the other movements, they also induced congregants opposed to women rabbis to switch to more mainstream synagogues...
Still, they weren't offering any apologies over their most recent move. Rabbi Paul Menitoff, the executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the umbrella group of Reform Judaism, used strong language in describing why his organization had made its decision. "Can you imagine the impact on [gays] after so many negative messages from all those religious groups?" he told the Washington Post. Some saw the remark as directed at Catholics - gay rights groups have criticized the pope in recent weeks for his failure to include gays in his mass apology for the church's past sins...
Perhaps he's picking up on the distant strains of a Buddhist chant - or maybe he's just feeling feisty. Whatever the reason, Vice President Al Gore has decided that offense is the best tactic when it comes to campaign finance reform, putting forward a new system in which a $1.7 billion public-private endowment would provide every candidate with his or her total campaign funding. The plan, which was met with lukewarm support from the patron saint of campaign finance, John McCain, would get rid of the direct ties between private contributors, federal officeholders and the two political parties...