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(Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnes\
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(Your editor has long recommended George Gilder\222s book )Tj
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(\223Marriage is the only institution that protects mothers and children \
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(\223The findings also support President Bush\222s plan to spend $300 mil\
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(\223 \221In establishing programs to help those who need assistance, the\
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(\223Never-married mothers with children are more likely to be victims of\
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(\223Children who live with their mother and a boyfriend who is not their\
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(\223Groups such as the Family Research Council \(FRC\) and Smart-Marriag\
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(\223 \221Marriage definitely protects women and children,\222 said Diane\
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(\223And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gid\
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ugh faith )Tj
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(\223Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obt\
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(\223And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did n\
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(\223The Christian is in a different position from other people who are t\
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(\223Let it be repeated, there are two views of one\222s life. One is tha\
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(\223Imagination is more than knowledge. It is a preview of life\222s com\
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(If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,)Tj
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(Yours is the earth and everything that\222s in it,)Tj
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(executive branch\222s position that the Second Amendment protects an ind\
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(arms. This reading treats the amendment like the rest of the Bill of Rig\
hts. The First )Tj
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(Amendment, for example, recognizes an individual right to speak freely. \
It does not prohibit )Tj
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(all regulations of that speech: Someone who falsely cries Fire! in a cro\
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(punished. But the Constitution does bar laws attempting to reduce the am\
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(Similarly, the Constitution allows some regulations on gun ownership\227\
and indeed, in the )Tj
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(Constitution. Nor, pursuing the analogy to the First Amendment, would a \
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(That\222s the route properly open to those people who believe the Second\
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(\227National Review, June 3, 2002, p. 8)Tj
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(\223When CNN opened a Havanna office five years ago, bureau chief Lucia \
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(Cuban officials had promised the network \221total freedom to do what we\
want and to work )Tj
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(According to a new study by the Media Research Center, CNN\222s Havana-b\
ased journalists )Tj
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(have produced 212 prime-time reports on the Cuban government or life on \
the island. A )Tj
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(the number of stories CNN ran in the first three months of this year abo\
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(rights abuses of Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. The bureau al\
so put out a mere )Tj
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(four stories on the absence of democracy in Cuba, including one that had\
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(found in the U.S. Overall, Communist spokesmen were given six times more\
airplay than )Tj
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(non-Communist ones. Perhaps this is because the non-Communist ones would\
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(lives if they spoke against the regime\227a great story in itself, if on\
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(\223The sovereign Maker of heaven and earth has established for His own \
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(upon society itself, for suppressing the truth by pretending autonomous \
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(\223With this conviction, we want to raise an alarm. This nation\222s po\
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(instead of men in armed combatant roles and categories is contrary to th\
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(almighty God, from whom all human government derives its just authority.\
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(divine discipline. The enrollment of women as warriors, positioned to en\
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(\223Over a century ago Ernst Renan wrote, \221Muslims are the first vict\
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(\223This clash of worldviews must be won both by Muslims and by those of\
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(September 11. \221He wants no truck with those who kill in the name of I\
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(same argument the Nazis gave for their atrocities during the trials at N\
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(\227John Ankerburg, John Weldon, Fast Facts on Islam, p. 95,96)Tj
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(\223The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools \(NCBCPS\)\
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(\223Since 1995, over 70,000 students have taken the National Council On \
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(\223The NCBCPS uses the Bible as its textbook \(the King James version i\
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(\223Following Constitutional guidelines, the course emphasizes that the \
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(\223Some of the supporters of this curriculum are: Dr. Bill Bright, Dr. \
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(Barton, Joyce Meyer, Charles Stanley, Dean Jones \(the actor\), Jane Rus\
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(Captain Scott O\222Grady \(who was shot down over Bosnia and later rescu\
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(information contact: Elizabeth Ridenour, PO Box 9743, Greensboro, NC 274\
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( Former U.S. President Gerald Ford has accepted an invitation to join th\
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(\223Ford\222s decision last month to join the RUC advisory panel marks t\
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(chair.)Tj
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(\223Francis said former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson \(R-Wyo.\), who serves\
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(\223 \221I think they ought to be treated equally. Period.\222 Ford, sai\
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(\223Ford told Price he applauds President Bush\222s decision to appoint \
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(\223 \221I have always believed in an inclusive policy, in welcoming gay\
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(Ford said in the interview.)Tj
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(\223Francis said Ford\222s comments in the Detroit News interview prompt\
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(Simpson to approach Ford about joining the RUC advisory panel. Francis s\
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\224)Tj
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(\227Washington Blade, March 8, 2002, p. 5)Tj
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(\223Mary Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney\222s lesbian daughter, issue\
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(week saying she has joined the board of directors of the Republican Unit\
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(that describes itself as a \221gay-straight alliance\222 seeking to buil\
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(Republican Party.)Tj
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(Mary Cheney\222s decision to join the RUC board marks the first time she\
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(\223 \221RUC is an organization that reflects my fundamental beliefs and\
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(equality for all gay and lesbian Americans.\222)Tj
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(\223Charles Francis, the openly gay public relations executive who found\
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(of Bush\222s inauguration, said Cheney would help the RUC \221reach out \
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(\223 \221In the same e-mail that included Cheney\222s statement, Francis\
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(\223Francis told the Blade on April 25 that Mary Cheney would be attendi\
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(\223 \221We\222re real excited to have her on board,\222 Francis said.)Tj
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(\223Francis, a friend of President Bush and the Bush family from Texas, \
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(Republican candidates in the 2002 congressional elections. A finance rep\
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(submitted to the Federal Election Commission shows it had raised $33,000\
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(\223RUC official Eugene Lawson issued a statement on April 5 saying the \
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(three Republican House candidates.)Tj
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(\223Mary Cheney could not be reached by press time. When asked for Vice \
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(reaction to his daughter\222s decision to join the RUC, vice presidentia\
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(Millerwise told Washington Post columnist Lloyd Grove, \221The vice pres\
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(\223Earlier this year, former U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that \
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(\227Washington Bade, April 26, 2002, p. 26)Tj
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( The homosexualization of America appears to be right on schedule. While\
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(\223Cross-dressing and gender-bending activists with the \221transgender\
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(GenderPAC \(Gender Public Advocacy Coalition\) lobbied members of Congre\
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(\223According to GenderPAC\222s Website, less than 100 members of Congre\
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(\223Concerned Women for America sent the following email memo to all mem\
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(\221Signing this pledge will commit you to hiring and retaining in your \
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(\221Ultimately, your signature on this pledge will be used to advance th\
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(employment discrimination.)Tj
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(\221This is not the way to healing and health for troubled individuals. \
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(\221Corporal Klinger, the cross-dressing character from M.A.S.H., might \
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(\221We strongly urge you not to sign this \223Klinger Pledge. \222 \224)Tj
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(\227Culture & Family Institute, May 24, 2002)Tj
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(\223Stephen Jay Gould, 60, an evolutionary biologist, prolific author an\
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(\223To the general public, Gould did for evolutionary biology and paleon\
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(\223Gould published more than a dozen books, including Hen\222s Teeth an\
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(\223To scientists, Gould was an unabashed critical thinker who challenge\
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(\223The theory contradicted a century of belief that species evolve slow\
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(\223 \221In addition to the concrete science that Stephen contributed to\
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(\223Gould was first diagnosed with cancer in 1982. He successfully fough\
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(\223 \221This is truly a terrible loss of a phenomenal thinker and leade\
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(\223Gould was elected president of the prestigious AAAS in 1998.)Tj
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(\223His desire to push the frontier and challenge big notions began as a\
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(\223 \221When we were in school together he said, \221We can\222t wait u\
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(\227USA Today, May 21, 2002, p. 11 D)Tj
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(\223The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ordered the National\
Education )Tj
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(Association and its affiliates to stop violating the religious rights of\
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(\223In a ruling made public yesterday, the federal agency said it would \
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(objectors\222 to undergo annual written procedures so their dues would n\
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(\223Some objectors say the NEA\222s agenda promotes pro-abortion, pro-ho\
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(\223 \221The evidence obtained during the investigation establishes a vi\
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(\223Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, union officials may\
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(\223The union\222s policy was designed to harass teachers of all faiths,\
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(\223 \221The NEA union\222s illegal scheme is intended to force teachers\
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(\223 \221The EEOC\222s action further underscores that the nation\222s l\
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(\223NEA officials said yesterday they could not comment on the ruling be\
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(\223In their complaint to the EEOC, the attorneys for the objecting teac\
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(\223The charges stemmed from a case in Ohio, where a high school teacher\
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(\223Dennis Robey, a member of the Church of God, made his religious obje\
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(\223After 1999, union officials began demanding that Mr. Robey fill out \
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(\223On the form, union officials asked what Mr. Roby called \221probing \
personal questions\222 about )Tj
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(his relationship with God and his religious affiliation. They also requi\
red him to obtain a )Tj
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(signature from a religious official attesting to the validity of his bel\
iefs.)Tj
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(\223The EEOC said its investigation found an \221unnecessary delay\222 i\
n the Ohio Education )Tj
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(Association\222s response to teachers who had asked that they be categor\
ized as religious )Tj
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(objectors early last year. The commission said that even though the Ohio\
Education )Tj
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(Association complied with teachers\222 requests, it took the local union\
up to nine months to )Tj
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(process. \221The amount of time it took the union to accommodate teacher\
s was unreasonable,\222 )Tj
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(Mr. Fetzer wrote.)Tj
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(\223The agency also concluded that the union\222s requirement that objec\
tors submit annual written )Tj
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(statements was burdensome.)Tj
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(\223 \221Once an individual is on the record that he/she objects to payi\
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(designated an agreed upon charity to which his/her portion of the fair s\
hare will be donated, )Tj
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(he/she should not be required to reiterate the objection on an annual ba\
sis,\222 Mr. Getzer wrote.)Tj
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(\223The EEOC has given the NEA and its affiliates time to eliminate the \
annual procedure. If )Tj
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(the NEA does not, the EEOC will seek to resolve the issue in court.)Tj
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(\223Daniel Cronin, director of the National Right to Work Legal Defense \
Foundation\222s legal )Tj
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(information department, said the foundation receives about 100 reports e\
ach year from )Tj
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(teachers who have complaints about the NEA\222s policies regarding relig\
ious objectors.)Tj
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(\223He said the ruling should change that.)Tj
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(\223 \221This hopefully will make life easier for these teachers,\222 Mr\
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(\227The Washington Times, May 21, 2002)Tj
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(\223In the days of pre-modern medicine, the adage was: Whatever else hos\
pitals do, they )Tj
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(should not spread disease. In these days of postmodern higher education,\
the adage is: )Tj
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(Whatever else schools do, they should not subtract from understanding. W\
hich brings us to )Tj
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(the subject of \221women\222s studies.\222 )Tj
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(\223Christine Stolba, a history Ph.D and senior fellow at the indispensa\
ble Independent )Tj
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(Women\222s Forum, recently steeled herself for the ordeal of reading a l\
ot of meretricious )Tj
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(rubbish. The result is her report, \221Lying in a Room of One\222s Own: \
How Women\222s Studies )Tj
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(Textbooks Miseducate Students.\222 It is published by the IWF, a voice f\
or women unlike those )Tj
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(who have hijacked feminism.)Tj
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(\223The hijackers include the authors of five widely used women\222s stu\
dies textbooks. Because )Tj
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(these represent the mainstream of women\222s studies, they illustrate th\
e extent to which )Tj
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(political screeds, the cultivation of grievances and anti-intellectualis\
m have gained academic )Tj
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(respectability.)Tj
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(\223The textbooks\222 factual errors serve the \221transformative\222 mi\
ssion of women\222s studies\227the )Tj
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(political mission of agitation and mobilization, aka \221 consciousness \
raising.\222 However, the )Tj
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(postmodern premise \(explicitly endorsed in one of the texts\) is that \221\
no purely factual studies )Tj
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(exist.\222 That is, \221truth\222 is \221socially constructed,\222 and i\
n \221patriarchal,\222 \221phallocentric\222 societies )Tj
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(\221factual\222\227scare quotes are obligatory among postmodernists\227a\
ssertions merely reflect )Tj
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(power relations of male domination.)Tj
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(\223So textbooks\222 assertions about the \221wage gap\222 between men a\
nd women do not mention the )Tj
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(fact that many women chose to sacrifice compensation in exchange for fle\
xible work )Tj
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(arrangements. Certain feminists, radiating contempt to all women\227the \
vast majority\227who )Tj
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(differ with them disparage this choice as a \221mommy track.\222 They sa\
y it is not a real choice, it )Tj
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(is mindless adherence to imposed sexual stereotypes.)Tj
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(\223The textbooks\222 assertion that women have been shortchanged in med\
ical research is )Tj
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(unsupported by evidence and refuted by facts, such as: Women are 60 perc\
ent of all subjects )Tj
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(in National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trials, and since spend\
ing on various forms of )Tj
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(cancer research began to be tracked in 1985, more money has been spent o\
n breast cancer )Tj
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(than on any other cancer research. And women are more likely than men to\
have medical )Tj
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(insurance.)Tj
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(\223The textbooks\222 attempts to cling to the myth of education bias ag\
ainst women founders on )Tj
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(facts such as: Today women receive most bachelor\222s and master\222s de\
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(most Ph.D.s. So stuck are these books in a time warp, one text, while re\
jecting the traditional )Tj
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(literary canon \(too many dead white males\), recommends I, Rigoberta Me\
nchu: An Indian )Tj
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(Woman in Guatemala, a book which helped the author win the 1992 Nobel Pe\
ace Prize\227)Tj
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(before it was demonstrated to be fraudulent.)Tj
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(\223What Stolba calls the \221women-under-siege\222 theme\227what one of\
the textbooks calls the )Tj
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(\221matrix of domination\222\227is impervious to evidence. As one book i\
nsists: \221The overall effect )Tj
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(of the twentieth century on women was neither liberation nor gender equa\
lity as much as it )Tj
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(was change in the nature and meaning of their fragmentation.\222)Tj
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(\223The fact that women think they are better off is, the texts say, pro\
of of how subtle and )Tj
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(sinister their oppressors have become. The \221internalization of societ\
y\222s views\222\227internalized )Tj
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(oppression\222\227causes women to have such \221low self-esteem\222 that\
they are \221absorbed into the )Tj
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(male worldview.\222 That view, says one text, is apparent in the degradi\
ng stereotype of the )Tj
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(kneeling Native American woman on the label of Land O\222 Lakes butter.)Tj
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(\223On sexuality, the theme of many textbooks is, Stolba says, \221How d\
o I love thee, let me count )Tj
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(the heterosexist, patriarchal ways.\222 The textbooks are morose about t\
he idea that \221women )Tj
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(need men for sexual arousal and satisfaction,\222 which produces \221com\
pulsory heterosexuality\222 )Tj
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(resulting from the dichotomous thinking\222 that men and women are diffe\
rent and represent the )Tj
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(full range of human types. The \221culture of romance\222? Not good. It \
\221entails male privilege.\222)Tj
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(\223The \221marriage myth\222? Don\222t ask.)Tj
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(\223Fatherhood? Well, the textbooks say it is not all incest and child a\
buse. One textbook even )Tj
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(finds a bright side:)Tj
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(\223 \221At present, it appears that domineering fathers may provoke rea\
ctions in their daughters )Tj
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(that release our feminist impulses and creative potential.\222)Tj
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(\223The title of Stolba\222s report echoes that of Virginia Woolf\222s s\
plendid 1929 essay \221A Room of )Tj
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(One\222s Own,\222 in which Woolf deftly suggested how many deprivations\227\
including having no )Tj
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(\221room of her own\222\227could explain why a sister of Shakespeare wou\
ld have been handicapped )Tj
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(compared to her brother. Today a widely used women\222s studies textbook\
fulminates against )Tj
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(supposedly phallic words and phrases such as\227no kidding\227\221input,\
\222 \221plugs into,\222 \221thrust\222 and )Tj
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(\221penetrate.\222 How feminism has fallen.\224)Tj
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(\227George Will, The [Colorado Springs] Gazette, May 20, 2002, p. M7)Tj
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( \223As far as most of us are concerned, the university is the most mora\
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(mainstream institution in America. It is also among the most unfree, wit\
h its authoritarian )Tj
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(speech codes and political correctness. Most Americans agree with Willia\
m F. Buckley\222s )Tj
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(famous comment that he would rather be governed by the first hundred nam\
es in the )Tj
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(Cambridge phone book than by a hundred Harvard professors.)Tj
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(\223The question is, why? Why are the moral compasses of so many profess\
ors in the liberal arts )Tj
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(and humanities\227i.e., departments other than in the natural sciences a\
nd math\227broken?)Tj
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(\223Having thought about this ever since the 1970s, when I attended grad\
uate school in )Tj
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(international affairs at Columbia University, I would like to offer six \
reasons:)Tj
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(\223First, college professors are regarded no matter how incompetent the\
y are. Once a professor )Tj
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(is granted tenure, he or she can announce that all sex between a man and\
a woman is rape, )Tj
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(that parents should have a period of time after their ill child is borm \
to determine whether or )Tj
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(not they should kill it, or that children do just as well when raised by\
two women or two men )Tj
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(as when rasied by a man and woman married to each other\227and still be \
well-paid and )Tj
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(respected by colleagues.)Tj
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(\223Second, professors live and work in an almost hermetically sealed id\
eological universe. As a )Tj
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(radio talk-show host, I probably have to defend my ideas more often in a\
day than the average )Tj
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(left-wing professor does in a semester. No wonder professors who write a\
nti-American )Tj
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(articles or letters to the editor often refuse my producer\222s invitati\
ons to come on my show and )Tj
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(defend their views\227they almost never have to do so.)Tj
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(\223Third, they believe in moral relativism\226one man\222s terroist is \
another man\222s freedom fighter, )Tj
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(no culture is morally superior to any other\227and increasingly even bel\
ieve in the relativism of )Tj
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(truth. For anyone who believes that nothing is objectively right or wron\
g or even true or false, )Tj
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(moral clarity is impossible.)Tj
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(\223Fourth, they lack wisdom. Many professors have an immense amount of \
knowledge in their )Tj
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(field, but few possess wisdom. For example, I am convinced that my grand\
mothers, who )Tj
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(never went to high school, understood men better than the average woman \
who earns a )Tj
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(doctorate in psychology\227let alone in women\222s studies, sociology or\
political science.)Tj
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(\223Fifth, they are aliented from the two main identities of other Ameri\
cans: patriotism and )Tj
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(religion. They regard patriotism and expressions of it such as flag wavi\
ng as largely )Tj
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(contemptible expressions of jingoism. And they regard religion\227especi\
ally American\222s )Tj
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(foundational religions, Christianity and Judaism\227as, at best, a crutc\
h for the psychologically )Tj
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(weak and, at worst, as the greatest source of evil.)Tj
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(\223Sixth, most professors believe that they are smarter than other Amer\
icans, and so they )Tj
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(deeply resent the society that gives more power, money and fame to busin\
essmen, politicians, )Tj
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(athletes, movie stars and talk-show hosts. This further alienates them f\
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(\223In sum, if the universities are morally right, Americans are, by and\
large, morally wrong, )Tj
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(and America is indeed the malevolent force in the world that so many col\
leges depict it as. )Tj
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(On the other hand, if Americans are by and large right about the greates\
t moral issues of the )Tj
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(day, and America, with all its flaws, really is the greatest force for g\
ood in the world, our )Tj
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(universities are, with a few exceptions, moral wastelands.\224)Tj
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(\227Dennis Prager, WorldNetDaily, May 21, 2002)Tj
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