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Selective tolerance. (Scan).(religion in schools)(Brief Article)
During the 2000 presidential campaign Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman observed that what separates Americans today is "not our different denominations, but faith itself.... We are a society of the religious and the secular, where practicing Jews and Christians and Muslims often have more in common with each other than with their non-believing peers."
Occasionally, though, the secular faction embraces a particular religious group for its own peculiar reasons. We have seen this since September 11 in the odd embrace of Islam by various liberal institutions that have otherwise shown little tolerance for religious belief.
Doctors writing in the October issue of the medical journal Pediatrics call on their colleagues to pay careful attention to "Islamic ethics" when treating Muslim patients. Islam, they explain, forbids premarital sex. So doctors should not talk to their teenaged Muslim patients about contraception. Likewise, Muslims believe life begins at conception, and they consider abortion to be murder. So that, too, should not be pushed.
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