Word: macedo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if Americans do have the right to bear arms under the second amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Macedo said a five-day waiting period would insure that guns don't get into the wrong hands...
...bill now goes to the Senate, which has endorsed the bill's idea of a five-day waiting period on gun purchases before. Associate Professor of Government Stephen Macedo called the legislation "an excellent idea...
...seems to be long overdue," Macedo said. "I can't see any reasonable arguments against...
Shame is a notion missing from Macedo's statement but present in every sexual situation. The need for shame makes it impossible to leave sex to adults consenting in private, because consent needs to be backed up by social agreement on what is shameful. Women, in particular, need the weapon of shame to defend themselves from being bullied and battered by men. Homosexuality is an open challenge to society's sense of shame, as the gays recognize quite well. For if the practices of homosexuals are not shameful, what...
...Macedo's natural law draws the line at promiscuity. Promiscuity is wrong, whether homosexual or heterosexual; and stability of either type is the end. But he also mentions "elevation" as a desirable feature of relationships. Isn't procreation a necessary part of an elevated relationship if it is complete? It is hard to think of the business of conceiving and raising the next generation as merely optional, in which society has no interest. Surely we teachers depend for our livelihood on an ever-renewed supply of young people. And what of shame? Where is the protection--always as difficult...