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That is exactly what the bishops did last week. The excommunication issue was so touchy that it was treated in a closed-door session and was never listed on the bishops' public agenda. Although repeal had never come before the bishops' conference before, it passed after only 30 minutes of discussion. The removal of excommunication requires the personal approval of Pope Paul VI, but that should be a mere formality. For one thing, the bishops' vote to ask for the change was a lopsided 231 to 8; for another, only the U.S. church has ever imposed blanket...
...many of Manhattan's gay bars. But for homosexuals in Miami, Singer Bryant's crusade against gay rights is no joke. A born-again Baptist and TV promoter for the Florida citrus industry, she has spent most of the past three months organizing a drive to repeal Dade County's new ordinance barring discrimination against homosexuals in housing, employment and public accommodations. As a result of two rulings, that issue is scheduled to be settled June 7 in a public referendum...
...April 15 Miami Circuit Court Judge Sam I. Silver disappointed opponents of gay rights by ruling the ordinance constitutional. Last week the Dade County Commission, by a 5-to-4 vote, rejected a move to repeal the measure despite the budget-conscious argument that repeal is the only way to avert a referendum that would cost taxpayers at least $300,000. Bryant's heavily religious appeal ("God drew a circle and more or less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll...
...said that although he favors the repeal of section 14b of the Taft-Hartley Act (the section which allows states to enact so-called "right to work" laws), "it's not a thing I get worked up about...
Most imperative for the new government is to repeal the laws which curbed civil liberties during the emergency. These include the Press Censorship Act, the Publication of Objectionable Matter Act, the law which suspended habeas corpus, and the Maintenance of Internal Security Act under which thousands of political opponents (including most of the new cabinet) were imprisoned. Since many of these laws were constitutional amendments, their repeal will require a two thirds vote in both houses of Parliament and ratification by a majority of the states. With the Congress Party still controlling the upper house of Parliament and nearly...