Word: moralisms
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...Falwell's spiritual breakthrough, however, was accompanied by a political innovation. Instead of enlisting just fundamentalists and other conservative Protestants, Falwell opened the Moral Majority up to everyone: Jews, Catholics and Mormons - in short, the very people (and faiths) that fundamentalists had been separating themselves from for generations. That was Falwell's greatest political discovery: he understood that fundamentalists, orthodox Jews, conservative Catholics and Mormons had so much in common politically that they could overlook their theological differences...
...1970s, he was big enough to lure the attention of Jimmy Carter, who was openly courting faith- minded voters in his own campaign for president. But Falwell cooled on Carter and within a year or two of his election turned hostile. In 1979, he started the Moral Majority, partly at the urging of two Republican political consultants. In 1980, Falwell moved the organization behind Ronald Reagan, buying anti-Carter ads on tiny radio stations across the South and Midwest...
...This is moral relativism at its most dangerous; refusing to recognize the partnership that Israel has with the United States and its allies while making it a target for condemnation on par with terrorist states is not liberal open-mindedness, its just plain wrong. Israel’s humanitarian, technological, medical, and scientific contributions must also be mentioned in any balanced debate. Their consistent omission in the academic rhetoric is what makes it so easy for the public to see Israel’s wrongs in unduly high relief. Even worse, when activists like Matory are not too busy condemning...
Indeed, the authors assertions seem to mirror those found in any two-bit anti-Zionist tract, holding that Israel lacks any moral claim to American support, because the “creation of Israel entailed a moral crime against the Palestinian people,” in addition to the grossly exaggerated and inaccurate claim that Israel has continued to commit crimes against Palestinians including “massacres … and rapes by Jews.” And this is from the former academic dean of the Kennedy School. If this is what Harvard’s top professors...
...workers’ rights in his platform when he was elected, having one point in a platform does not give him a mandate to impose his viewpoint on the UC.Petersen wrote to the UC in an e-mail that “So long as that conduct has moral consequences and so long as we are part of the Harvard community and part of the institution, we should have some role in determining Harvard’s conduct.” We disagree. The UC should refrain from taking political action on moral issues that do not directly affect Harvard...