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\"Colorado\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIn other words, he inflated complication rates by a factor of ten\u00a0and then continued repeating erroneous data<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Pro-life\u2019 has, in this schema, totally taken leave of the plethora of other life issues with which it\u00a0has<\/i>\u00a0to cohere, if it\u2019s to be any kind of meaningful ethical approach to anything at all<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite men politely asked for identification, black men held at gun point and six police cars arrive<\/a> on the scene within a minute or two.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d come and take that voter card right out of their hand and rip it up in front of their face<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne can imagine exactly the same strategy being deployed in, say, 1858 regarding slavery<\/a> or in 1958 regarding segregation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were 500 fewer overall murders in 2013 than there were in 1969<\/a>, despite the fact that the population increased by 115 million people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSome inappropriate results are surfacing in Google Maps that should not be<\/a>, and we apologize for any offense this may have caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New York Times<\/em> reported that neither White House officials nor a Twitter spokesman could provide the exact number of racist tweets that made their way to the commander-in-chief<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cT<\/a>he government is making a profit on my period<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"modernmother\"<\/a>\u201cComplementarity just isn\u2019t very satisfying. It\u2019s the Taco Bell of theology<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking to 1,500 students at Wellesley College in 1921, Mrs. Augustus Trowbridge \u2014 the wife of a Princeton professor \u2014 railed against \u2018the vulgarity and revolting badness of petting parties<\/a>.\u2019 She said that the loose-moraled gatherings \u2014 along with jazz music, unchaperoned dancing and lipstick \u2014 were symptomatic of a decadent society.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter how \u00a0Wells Fargo treated poor and minority customers, Focus on the Family, Samaritan\u2019s Purse, and Franklin Graham said nothing<\/a>. Yet, when Wells Fargo runs a one minute ad featuring a lesbian couple,\u00a0<\/span>THEN\u00a0Focus on the Family, Samaritan\u2019s Purse, and Franklin Graham decided to say something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMichigan pastor who railed against same-sex marriage resigns after being caught seeking men on Grindr<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPastor caught having gay sex in van spent stolen church money on farmer dating website<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRubio\u2019s statement\u00a0is simply a confused muddle\u00a0of fear-mongering and constitutional misconception<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cReligious liberty is a two-way street<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>When I defend the right of our chaplains to be evangelical I must at the same time defend the right of those so disposed to be just as liberal as they choose to be.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s frustrating about these social conservative reactions to Jenner isn\u2019t that people care so much about traditional morality. It\u2019s that they think it\u2019s useful to dismissively rant against an experience that\u2019s so often been marginalized and attacked \u2014 and that isn\u2019t their own<\/a>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have another bad memory from the 1960s that I hope will not return in real life: the polarization of public opinion into hostile camps carrying the banners of \u2018justice\u2019 and \u2018law and order.<\/a>\u2018\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, I didn\u2019t arrive at the end of this project with an optimistic sense that we are all going to start getting along<\/a> anytime soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Neighborly\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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