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 Today's News: Pilgrims Gone Wild: A Reality Check On The Early Settlers Author: Catherine Guarnieri Source: Register Citizen (CT) Title: PILGRIMS GONE WILD: A REALITY CHECK ON THE EARLY SETTLERS We all have this idea in our heads that the first English settlers of New England, commonly known as the Pilgrims, or more correctly, Puritans, were stodgy, God-fearing, hard working farmers, laborers and clergy, who had nothing better to do with their spare time than burn witches, attend prayer meetings, and defend themselves against the pesky natives who wanted the invaders to just go back home. No way these people could ever let loose and get in touch with their wild side right? Wrong. While researching my own family history, I came across some of the personal diaries, and judicial records of the Plymouth colony, that survived the wear and tear of time. I expected the usual, “Woke up at crack of dawn and sowed corn in ye fields till dusk,” sort of entries in the diaries. And there was plenty of that. What was shocking though, was the occasional nugget such as this, taken from the Plymouth colony records; "Sarah Ensigne, for committing whordome agreuated with diuers cercomstances, was centansed by the Court to bee whipt att the carts taile." That’s right, Sarah was a dirty tramp! | |
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Today's News: Words That Think For Us Author: Edward Skidelsky Source: Prospect Magazine Title: WORDS THAT THINK FOR US No words are more typical of our moral culture than “inappropriate” and “unacceptable.” They seem bland, gentle even, yet they carry the full force of official power. When you hear them, you feel that you are being tied up with little pieces of soft string. Inappropriate and unacceptable began their modern careers in the 1980s as part of the jargon of political correctness. They have more or less replaced a number of older, more exact terms: coarse, tactless, vulgar, lewd. They encompass most of what would formerly have been called “improper” or “indecent.” An affair between a teacher and a pupil that was once improper is now inappropriate; a once indecent joke is now unacceptable. Submitted by and Thanks to: Arts and Letters Daily (http://www.aldaily.com/) | |
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Today's News: Why Gay-Marriage Friends, Foes Need One Another Author: Charles C. Haynes Source: First Amendment Center Title: WHY GAY-MARRIAGE FRIENDS, FOES NEED ONE ANOTHER Same-sex marriage advances in one region, then retreats in another, making the United States a two-nation nation on this issue — now and for years to come. Advocates on both sides are in the majority somewhere, but in the minority somewhere else. That’s why two church-state encounters this month, in two very different parts of the country, are instructive reminders that in a deeply divided society winners are very unlikely to take all. First in Utah, where the Mormon Church — the dominant faith in the state with considerable religious and political influence — announced support for gay-rights legislation before the city council in Salt Lake City. After the church’s endorsement, laws banning discrimination against gays in unemployment and housing passed the council unanimously on Nov. 10. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., the Roman Catholic Church is asking for more religious accommodation in a proposed law legalizing same-sex marriage that’s expected to pass the city council in the next few weeks. | |
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Today's News: GPS And Privacy Rights (Editorial) Author: New York Times Editorial Source: New York Times Title: GPS AND PRIVACY RIGHTS A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., heard arguments last week about whether police should have to get a warrant before putting a GPS device on a suspect’s car. It is a cutting-edge civil liberties question that has divided the courts that have considered it. GPS devices give the government extraordinary power to monitor people’s movements. The Washington court should rule that a warrant is required. Antoine Jones was charged with being part of an interstate drug conspiracy. The government obtained evidence against Mr. Jones by putting a GPS device on his Jeep. It obtained a court order to install the GPS device, but the defense said the order was faulty, and tried to get the evidence collected by the device thrown out. The government responded that the evidence was admissible because it did not need to get a court order at all. | |
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Today's News: Visitors Taken On Journey Through History Of Faiths Author: This Is Derbyshire Source: This Is Derbyshire (UK) Title: VISITORS TAKEN ON JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY OF FAITHS A parade of glow-sticks lit a trail around a Derby park in a celebration of the city’s different faiths. As visitors walked around the path at the Arboretum, in Normanton, on Saturday evening, nov 21 they found decorated stalls which plotted a history of different religions in the area. Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Sikhism, Muslim, Baha’i and Pagan religions all had their own stall, complete with people staffing them and explaining about the collections of objects and books on show. | |
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Today's News: Different Faiths Gather To Mark Annual Interfaith Celebration Author: Isadora Vail Source: American-Statesman (TX) Title: DIFFERENT FAITHS GATHER TO MARK ANNUAL INTERFAITH CELEBRATION This wasn't a typical church service. The 25th annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Service and Celebration on Sunday began with a Muslim chant and the blowing of a ram's horn from the second floor of the First Baptist Church of Austin. Dancers leading a procession wore bright purple dresses, green-and-white robes, Wiccan symbols, crosses, hijabs and yarmulkes. "God planted different colors of flowers around the Earth, just like different colors of men," said Ustad Ghulam Farid Nizami, a Pakistani musician who played the sitar and sang as part of the celebration. "Today's celebration is about love and peace," he said. | |
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Today's News: Thanksgiving For All Faiths Author: Samara Kalk Derby Source: Wisconsin State Journal (WI) Title: THANKSGIVING FOR ALL FAITHS Like many other religious groups, Wiccans have a tradition of giving thanks in connection with the harvest season, said the Rev. Selena Fox, of Circle Sanctuary, a Wiccan church near Barneveld. Some contemporary Wiccans celebrate the first harvest at the beginning of August, the abundant harvest in September, and the end of the harvest in late October, Fox told a group of about 100 people Sunday during the fourth annual Interfaith Thanksgiving Celebration. Across religions, there are traditions of not only giving thanks for food and the bounty of nature, but giving thanks on a daily basis: after a meal, when a person wakes up, or at the end of the day, Fox said. | |
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