Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which of the following sexual practices do you disapprove because of your religious beliefs; i.e. do you find them objectionable not on secular grounds, but because of beliefs about God's commandments? (Disapprove-do not disapprove) 23-288 birth control; 68-242 pre-marital intercourse; 119-191 extra-martial intercourse; 45-265 divorce; 66-243 homosexuality; 57-253 legalized abortion...
...laid out the shocking story of what had happened. About 35 men had met at a farm outside Poplarville, but lynch justice was not their immediate aim. Rather, they were looking for ways to prevent a crowning indignity: the courtroom questioning by Parker's Negro attorney on the sexual attack of the 24-year-old white rape victim. Fired by beer, whisky and hot speeches during a two-hour meeting, the plotters eventually hit upon a scheme. By paper ballot, at least ten men were chosen to lynch Parker. They...
...subject of birth control, the Presbyterians passed a resolution stating that the "sexual life" of a Christian marriage is "given by God for the benefit of his children, and is neither an ethically neutral aspect of human existence nor an evil which needs to be justified by something else, as, for example, by the procreation of children." The proper use of "medically approved contraceptives may contribute to the spiritual, emotional and economic welfare of the family." ¶ On the subject of race relations the Assembly cautioned United Presbyterians against supporting or tolerating assaults on the "God-given and Constitutionally guaranteed...
...daughter and the hired man are much better company, and the celebration of the sexual instincts which they represent borders, at its best, on comic poetry. But this erotic yea-saying degenerates in lesser moments into remarkably explicit single-entendre that is crude without being funny. Crudity seems, generally speaking, to be the defect inherent in Brecht's attempt to simplify life to the point where it can be described in his almost-allegorical terms. His characters are often lifeless stick-figures whose only identity is a label, and his political and social pronouncements are over-stated, over-emphasized, over...
...offered. It will be hard now to read the success of a good play as indicating anything except that an audience has been stampeded by hit psychology, coaxed by affection for a favorite star, dragged by dumb loyalty to a particular critic, or tempted by the possibility of sexual excitement...