Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principle of reciprocity at the very foundation of any serious endeavor by any of us to institutionalize that awesome goal of Christian forgiveness. The millions of injured souls--of spiritually ravaged and smashed human beings--victimized by the white Americans who controlled and benefited from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make the first move on that complicated road toward Christian forgiveness...
...Gomes thinks that the first move toward forgiveness is blacks' moral burden. This is terribly wrong. Wrong because it fails to understand the reciprocity imperative. Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
...Court's recent decision is particularly complicated because it falls exactly at the intersection of two extremely compelling moral claims: on the one hand, freedom of religion, and on the other, commitment to life. In the case of the Christian Scientists, the use of modern medicine for the sake of supporting life directly contradicts their religious convictions. For the state to dictate that modern science be used in cases of illness is, to the Christian Scientists, a direct affront to their understanding of the inalienable and sacred right of freedom of religion...
Although this is a legitimate concern, in a situation where a child's life is at stake, the state has a moral duty to step in and support life. I am not arguing that prayer should be forbidden--recent medical advances have proven that we no longer know exactly what methods are most effective in the healing process...
...themselves as regular churchgoers (Dole 45%, Forbes 43%). But when it comes to social attitudes, Forbes voters are less likely to side with the Christian Right. On abortion, 57% are pro-choice, in contrast to 48% of those for Dole. Asked whether the government should promote one set of moral values over another, 54% of Forbes voters say no. Among Dole voters, a 51% majority says yes. Forbes also runs stronger than Dole among men, the wealthy, the college-educated, voters who chose Perot in '92, people who do not own guns and citizens who think big government has become...