"If people don't avow their homosexuality, there is not a way for us to know.
It's troubling enough that the leader of any group, let alone one that considers itself sophisticated and tasteful, would accept an award from an organization that does not allow "avowed homosexuals" as members because they are not "morally straight and clean in thought, word and deed".
What we have might be the intersection of their views, or they might be views that Newton held privately but did not yet want to avow publicly, or they might be a mixture of some of Clarke's views and some of Newton's views.
Protagoras' avowed agnosticism did not, then, provoke public outrage or even bring him into ill-repute, and it is worth considering why not.
And, even more strikingly, Pérez Molina avowed that he did not personally know Captain Byron Lima.
He concedes that if theism were true, then "a kind of objective ethical prescriptivity could be introduced" (1977, p. 48), and, though an avowed atheist, Mackie did not, apparently, maintain that theism is necessarily false.
As an avowed atheist, Aronofsky did not set out to inspire or promote faith.
In June 1851 he confided to Chapman on a visit to 142 Strand that, although his religious views were "perfectly free", he did not "mean to lessen his popularity by fully avowing them".
Tracy was an avowed Catholic, but his cousin, Jane Feely, said that he did not devoutly follow the religion: "he was often not a practical Catholic either.
He does not hesitate to avow that much of what he is and does, "even my way of being an atheist," bears the imprint of the Roman Catholicism to which he adhered through adolescence.
And doesn't its avowed goal of helping revive the economy of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 smack a little of entrepreneurial piggybacking on a catastrophe?
