Those who still think of the University of Chicago as a bastion of conservatism - including social conservatism - need to think again. The University of Chicago is rapidly becoming just another leftist-dominated campus. Mainstream liberals Cass Sunstein and Martha Nussbaum are arguably the most influential law professors at Chicago's law school (although libertarian conservative Richard Posner is there part-time). Emens nods to Sunstein and Nussbaum in her acknowledgments.

Gibson expertly puts us at Ground Zero of the last twelve hours in Christ's life. In his wisdom, the director played it straight, letting the gripping Passion narrative unfold just as it has been passed down through the ages - thankfully, there's hardly a modern touch found anywhere in the film.

The study, authored by three researchers from the Centers for Disease
Control, examined "adverse health outcomes" that result from sexual
activity including both sexually transmitted diseases, viruses and
infections, infertility and abortions. More men than women died in 1998
as a result of sexual behavior-- 19,634 men compared to 10,148 women.

George Barna, who spearheaded the research project, didn't mince words in his rundown of the poll's results: "You might expect that parents who are born-again Christians would take a different approach to raising their children than did parents who have not committed their life to Christ - but that was rarely the case."