Word: logical
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...that homosexuality is not intrinsically wrong and that if we want to strengthen families, the last thing we should do is deprive citizens of an institution that can facilitate strong family bonds. Indeed, it is sad that we have to continue fighting the same kind of flawed, regressive logic that social conservatives have used for centuries to deprive whole sections of the population of fundamental rights—from opponents of interracial marriage and the Civil Rights Act 40 years ago to foes of women’s suffrage 85 years ago. The reactionaries were wrong then, and they...
...strategy in the face of the ongoing violence has been to transfer as much of the security responsibility as possible to Iraqi forces. It's easy to understand the logic of moving U.S. forces out of harm's way in the streets of the capital, where almost ten months after its capture, U.S. soldiers on routine patrols are targeted on a daily basis. The insurgents have also mirrored the U.S. strategy by increasingly directing attacks at Iraqi security forces supporting the coalition - more than 600 Iraqi policemen have been killed since April...
...very curious view that black or Latino or Asian children cannot learn without a majority of white classmates. It is old-fashioned, liberal ideology,” said Thernstrom, asserting that the logic behind Orfield’s assumption about integration’s potential to improve minority education assumes that blacks and Hispanics must be able to model their white peers in order to have a “proper education...
...it’s usually politics. At this point my friend’s posture will straighten, his face will harden, and his voice will drop several pitches. As he begins to outline his points like essay paragraphs—the in-depth history, logic and economics behind the minimum wage—I shrink back and begin to tune out. In my mind, arguments only lead to awkwardness and resentment. So it goes: the conversation soon fizzles...
...bittersweet at best. He delivers it in a bluff, plainspoken style; one flaw in the telling is that the dialogue has a touch of that musty quality that often inhabits historical fiction. Yet Grunwald has a strong sense of his historical period--he genuinely intuits the mirror logic of the Renaissance religious mind--and his story has an emotional power that transcends it. In the present day, Grunwald asks, "Do we not still look for miracles, saints and devils, if, perhaps, by other names?" We do. And more often than not, we still find only human beings...