Word: judeo-christian
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...Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality (AALARM) has endured many thoughtless and misguided criticisms in its brief history, yet none so disappointing as the condemnation from the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel of April 9. Disappointing because the Hillel claims to represent one segment of the Judeo-Christian moral and ethical tradition upon which our society and many others are based. The very idea of homosexuality is anathema to both the Jewish faith and AALARM's mandate to uphold traditional American values. Therefore, it has grown uncomfortably obvious that AALARM, in this instance, is the more sincere advocate...
Finally, homosexuality is a complicated issue, and deserves more space than either a poster or an editorial can give it. But the idea that "the Jewish religion doesn't count in AALARM's religion and morality" is silly. The best-known prohibitions against sodomy in the Judeo-Christian tradition come in Leviticus...
...club is no longer a legitimate forum for Republican views," says Chae, a fiscal conservative who says he doubts the HRC will be able to draw a large following with such conservative views on social issues. "Any views that don't adhere to their Judeo-Christian ethics are considered morally depraved. They have little difficulty passing judgment on others' moral standards, which is not so wise for a political party...
...even within the community of faith there is a vast gray area. Though suffering and death underlie Judeo-Christian theology, basic compassion seems to dictate that a patient in terrible pain should be allowed to die. This is a proposition that the Roman Catholic Church appears to endorse. While both suicide and mercy killing are still strictly forbidden, the Vatican in 1980 declared that refusing treatment "is not equivalent to suicide; on the contrary, it should be considered as an acceptance of the human condition . . . or a desire not to impose excessive expenses on the family or community...
...Having thus dismissed the traditional concept of Christian marriage, Williams told a questioner in rather crude terms that Mother Teresa of Calcutta would be better off if she had had sex. All that was too much even for Bishop Spong, who also wants to overturn Judeo-Christian sexual limitations but encourages "committed" relationships, gay or straight, with lifelong monogamy as the ideal...