Word: judeo-christian
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...thought of him when, years later, people started telling me how All in the Family had changed our culture. I didn't know what people were talking about. I thought if a couple thousand years of the Judeo-Christian ethic hadn't corrected racism and lack of equal opportunity and so forth, my little half-hour situation comedy wasn't going to do it either. Then I remembered my grandfather, standing at a lake with me when I was 11 or so. I was dropping stones in the water, and my grandfather told me that each time...
...Christians who resist the anything-goes tide find themselves in a society that will tolerate almost anything but conservative Christians, says Jim Wallace, a retired SAS commander who heads the Australian Christian Lobby. "Until the '60s the influence of the Judeo-Christian ethic was quite strong, and that was very constraining for people with counter-Christian agendas, like the homosexual lobby, the sex industry, the marijuana lobby. They couldn't really get anywhere until they neutralized that influence." As a result, Christians have been "blasted and denigrated to the point where they are reluctant to stick their head above...
...political world is very undemocratic," she says. "The religious right are trying to remake parliament and society in their own image." Counters Wallace: "People bring up the line, Don't legislate your morality on me. But every law has a moral component. If it isn't Judeo-Christian morality that is being legislated, it's somebody's morality. There's no vacuum." Says Muehlenberg: "Secular humanism is a faith. It has a right to air its opinions in the public arena. We say, Surely the other side...
...close in the bush, celebrants in the more liberal centers of Melbourne and Auckland already conduct substantially more than half of the funerals. And services themselves are evolving as celebrants and the public grapple with a question: what, precisely, is the purpose of a non-religious funeral? Adhering to Judeo-Christian principles, funerals in both countries used to be predictable. Between prayers and hymns, a clergyman spoke briefly about the departed before commending his or her soul to God. Change flowed from the secularizing of another rite of passage: weddings. Troubled that the only option available to couples who didn...
...Families, wrote to his supporters: "If you still think homosexual 'marriage' won't affect you, think again. Your job may be at stake! ... Once the state approves of homosexual 'marriages,' the full weight of the law will be brought down against men and women of faith who believe in Judeo-Christian values...