Word: moralizations
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...list should be taking a stand against autocratic rulers like Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, who is personally responsible for running down Zimbabwe's once thriving economy. It's time to take a hard line against exploitative politicians and crooked leaders. Mbeki must do so now. That is the moral responsibility that power bestows upon him: advocacy for the weak, frail and oppressed. Tafadzwa G. Gidi Stoke-on-Trent, England The Pope's Passing Your articles on Pope John Paul II painted a picture that was marvelously balanced [April 11]. An itinerant evangelist, hardheaded when it came to moral issues, John...
...guidelines aren't binding but will probably be embraced by academic and commercial labs across the U.S., making collaboration easier. Foes of the research, who object that embryos are destroyed to create stem-cell lines, called the document a futile effort to bring moral clarity to an immoral field. --By Claudia Wallis
...institutions are separate, but the individuals who are a part of both institutions cannot partition their lives and their actions into non-overlapping circles without being false to their religion. The inherent roles of most religions are to prescribe, in some manner, a set of behaviors that they deem moral. Human actions, even when involved in secular, civic affairs, involve morality simply due to the fact that people are expected to make ethical decisions as a part of their lives. It is fully within the right, and even the duty, of the Catholic Church to declare not only a moral...
...were a civil servant assigned to the role of executing prisoners, I would object, refusing to carry out my duties, even at the risk of being fired, because they contradict my moral code, which is defined by my religious beliefs. Even if the institution I act within is a civic institution, all of my actions are nevertheless subject to morality. I may not agree with Pope Benedict’s stance on homosexual marriage, but to say that it isn’t the Church’s business to call people to action on such a thing is completely...
...Dover Beach” approach to the current Senate debate over the President’s right-wing judicial nominees: high mindedly pronounce both sides at fault, and tell one, the Democrats, to surrender (“end an unjust war and take the high moral ground”). The issue is really not one of principle, but of simple fairness. Having gone out of their way to obstruct in unprecedented fashion President Clinton’s judicial nominations in committee for eight years, Republicans are now determined to fill many of the judicial slots thus kept vacant with their...