Word: contemptable
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...antitrust laws. American oil producers are, in effect, auxiliary members. If the OPEC ministers met in Houston, they could be arrested on the spot. Perhaps the fact that they meet in foreign countries makes them immune from our law, but it should not make them immune from our contempt. And American soldiers should not die in the desert defending the oil kingdoms' right to flout the basic rules of free enterprise, to our enormous detriment...
...Where Catholics are perceived not only as treating Church teaching on ^ abortion with contempt," wrote O'Connor, "but helping to multiply abortions by advocating legislation supporting abortion, or by making public funds available for abortion, bishops may decide that, for the common good, such Catholics must be warned that they are at risk of excommunication." Though the Cardinal emphasized that he was not writing on behalf of the U.S. episcopate, his words will inevitably have nationwide impact, and could fuel a backlash against church incursions into politics...
AFTER last June's controversial Texas v. Johnson decision, in which the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that forbade "casting contempt" on the American flag, President Bush and a majority of Congress responded to the public outcry by calling for a constitutional amendment to protect the flag...
...Flag Protection Act, a law cleverly worded to escape judicial scrutiny. The new law was nearly identical to the Texas statute the Court had just struck down, except that it banned all attempts to harm or mutilate the flag, regardless of whether they were intended to "cast contempt...
...only does the military not serve as a laboratory for social reform, as it might, it actively impedes the understanding of individual differences. Instead of becoming more cosmopolitan and humane, my best friend from high school has learned bigotry and contempt for differences. He fervently believes the Navy's accusation--almost certainly false--that a homosexual romance gone sour was responsible for the deaths of 47 of his shipmates in an explosion on the USS Iowa. He has been taught--in the absence of any openly gay or lesbian peers--that homosexuality is a threat to the integrity...