“Amazing Grace”
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We rightly fear nuclear proliferation, and yet “amazing grace and good fortune,” and admirable postwar statecraft, “actually bent the arc of history.”
The Newbys went on to start two adoption agencies, including Amazing Grace Adoptions, an agency whose mission was to place children in Christian homes and save babies from abortion.
From Salon
Yet, in late 2021, Newby wrote an opinion in an adoption case without disclosing his connection to one of the parties: Amazing Grace Adoptions, the anti-abortion adoption agency he’d founded in 1999.
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His ties to the agency ended then, but experts in judicial ethics expressed surprise that Newby hadn’t at least disclosed the relationship even if he thought he could rule impartially on the case, which he decided in Amazing Grace’s favor.
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After three hours of worship from Christian music artists, the service opened with bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace.”
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