In Turkey, Wisdom Awaits Those Who Call Help Line

[LostInTime]

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An e-mail message from a transgender person required the intervention of the religious affairs board in Ankara after the clerics in Istanbul could not decide whether the person would be resurrected as a man or a woman on Judgment Day.

Faraway events also foment questions. "When Bill Clinton had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, we received several calls on whether the president's way of sexual interaction could be religiously approved and followed," said Yusuf Kavakli, another deputy director. The answer in a word: no.