Word: moralists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bible-thumping moralist or homophobe, but I am appalled at seeing a modestly talented television actress on your cover because of her suddenly avowed sexual preference. Why is a campaign being waged to normalize a behavior considered abnormal since time began? Could it be that the TV show Ellen is desperately trying to hang onto its viewers by this public admission? RICHARD H. VELVART North York, Ontario THE BIBLE AND HOMOSEXUALITY...
...Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former professor Bill ("Book of Virtues") Bennett, the Republicans' moralist-intellectual, who has crafted much of the moral language used by Dole...
...that conservatives aren't vastly better at taking this sort of bitter medicine. Newt Gingrich, as is well known, left his first wife and their two daughters. Bob Dole left his first wife and their daughter. And both men, in classic male fashion, then married younger women. Does Republican moralist-in-chief Bennett think Dole and Gingrich, in this regard, are good? Does he think they're bad? He has never said. But if a take-no-prisoners crusade to restore the American family doesn't involve heaping shame on this sort of behavior, then just what do conservatives plan...
...philosophical flirtation with Tikkun editor Michael Lerner, inventor of the indefinable "politics of meaning." Then there was Bill's midnight phone seminar with Ben Wattenberg, whose most recent book makes the unstartling claim that Values Matter Most. And popping up now and again among the Clintons' candidates for official moralist of the center-left has been Yale law professor and Camp David guest Stephen L. Carter, best known for advocating, in The Culture of Disbelief, a more vigorous role for religion in our political life...
...Buchanan cohort is large and desirable but maybe also impossible to accommodate. The issues--and the answers--that excite them are the very ones most likely to drive away moderates. The response from some quarters of the party has been to declare Buchanan beyond the pale. William Bennett, the moralist-at-large backing Lamar Alexander, has even predicted a third-party effort if Buchanan is the nominee. What Gingrich is hearing from many of the influential G.O.P. freshmen, however, is that the Buchanan crowd is a force that must be reckoned with. "It's not a real bright idea...