Word: righting
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...Dobson ask whether it is better to send "money to an organization vowing to pass legislation that would restrict the practice [of abortion] or volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center." Their implied answer is clearly the latter. And there is mounting evidence that even within the Christian right, that perspective is winning the day. In the late 1990s, the hyperpolitical Christian Coalition went into steep decline, while Promise Keepers, an organization that believes many of the same things but shuns political action as the route to achieve them, has grown...
Still, the direction in which the American elite is changing right now seems quite clear. We are somewhere in the course of the greatest capitalist boom in our history. One result is that capitalists will make up our country's next elite. The credential you will have to present to enter that virtual room in which candidates for office are chosen, educational institutions run, foreign alliances forged and social arrangements set will not be family background or educational achievement. It will be having started a successful business and made a lot of money...
...century ago, this country had a capitalist elite personified by such business titans as J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie. Then we spent the whole 20th century trying to replace it with other kinds of elites--two of them, to be specific. Now we're headed right back where we started...
...shunning or, in the more hard-line jurisdictions, stoning. There will still be sex, and probably plenty of it inside marriage, thanks to what will be known as Chemically Assisted Monogamy: Viagra for men and Viagra-like drugs for women, such as apomorphine and Estratest (both are being tested right now), to reignite the spark long after familiarity has threatened to extinguish it. Naturally, prescriptions will be available only upon presentation of a valid marriage license...
...done most to push same-sex marriage--a brilliant 43-year-old lawyer-activist named Evan Wolfson--doesn't even have a boyfriend. He and the others who brought the marriage lawsuits of the past decade want nothing less than full social equality, total validation--not just the right to inherit a mother-in-law's Cadillac. As Andrew Sullivan, the (also persistently single) intellectual force behind gay marriage, has written, "Including homosexuals within marriage would be a means of conferring the highest form of social approval imaginable...