Editorial: The homosexual agenda
STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Daria Donnelly Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior...
...STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Executive Editor: Paul Baumann Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Daria Donnelly Production Editor: Tiina Aleman Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Editorial Assistant: Grant Gallicho Copy Editor: Susanne Washburn Business Manager: Paul Q. Kane Poetry: Rosemary Deen The homosexual agenda Screen: Rand Richards Cooper Stage/Media: Celia Wren Columnists: John Garvey, E.J...
...We turned to a long-time Vatican observer, Father Guido Sarducci, for an assessment of this decision by Rome...
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...Gay advocates have consider how to order our common life...
...bishops that the general secretary of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops has to be a priest, and that the NCCB must change its bylaws to reflect that requirement...
...Is this simply prejudice hallowed away by civil-rights legislation and court decisions...
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...The success of African Americans in to political pressures and court-mandated solutions as gay adachieving many of their civil-rights goals encourages gay vocates hope...
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...unions and to teaching children that homosexual and hetThis was true, in particular, of the women's movement, and erosexual sex are equivalent deserves equal regard as we now is true of the gay-rights movement...
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...All how society as a whole understands same-sex relations...
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...4, 7, 17, 21, 22, however, the homosexual agenda wants to transform what Americans think and 31, Baloo, Rothco...
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...It Sometimes this deficiency is compared to the prohibition of rests as well on deeply embedded ideas about men and black-white marriages found in antimiscegenation laws swept women, sex and the family...
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...At its narIllustrations: Cover design: Christopher rowest, the homosexual agenda should be everyone's agenda, namely to end disYoung...
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...So far beyond the reach of reasonable argument as the differences between heterosexual and homosexual relato justify abandoning democratic debate and legislative are- tions are as irrelevant to moral reasoning and public policy nas for the pursuit of remedies in the courts, where there is as the differences of skin color...
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...Of course, there is a homosexual agenda-or better yet, agendas...
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...Sister Sharon Euart, currently an associate general secretary, was being considered for the post, hence the inquiry by the bishops to Rome: Could a lay person or a religious be elected...
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...What politics is all odicals postage paid at New York, N.Y., about, for instance, is disagreement over changing Vermont's laws to give official staand at additional offices...
...Judicial caution and tolerance for real political debate would certainly seem to be in order...
...In the meantime, should the resisin characterizing opposition to one's agenda as bigotry...
...Equating heterosexuality and homosexuality advocates to press their issues against what they see as the when it comes to families and family formation is social exsame kind of prejudice that blacks confront...
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...Ia Taking dictation According to a report in the National Catholic Reporter (September 1), the Vatican has told the U.S...
...This resistance often argued that the lack of legal recognition for same-sex unions rests on religious beliefs and moral views that tie procreis a form of civil discrimination akin to that suffered by blacks...
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...So, too, by religion and history, as some might argue, or is it religion the effort to introduce sympathetic accounts of same-sex and history reminding us that these customs and social forms unions into school curriculums is compared to efforts to por- are deeply congruent with the human ability to survive and tray African Americans as parents, workers, political leaders, flourish...
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...It is not clear that the civil disabilities suffered to overlook strongly held views about appropriate partners by women or homosexuals as a class have been as severe for sexual intercourse and about the meaning of marriage as those suffered by African Americans...
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...Since tance they encounter in Vermont, Hawaii, and other states or, the 1960s, virtually every group that considered itself the for that matter, with the Boy Scouts and other groups and invictim of discrimination has cast its cause in terms of civil stitutions for minors, count as bigotry...
...The changes being In effect, this is argument by analogy-but does the anal- pressed ask the citizens of Vermont, and the whole country, ogy hold...
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...gays will win the political argument and succeed in legalThere is an honorable model in turning to the courts and izing same-sex unions...
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...Is this so far beyond reasonable belief as to constitute the analogy assumes rather than examines the claim that bigotry...
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