Word: moralizations
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Summers spoke about the ruling’s impact on his own life, saying that desegregation was “the first public moral issue I encountered,” when, as a nine year old, his elementary school was integrated...
Summers, who acknowledged “knowing least about the subject” compared to the other panelists, nonetheless made an impassioned case for Marshall’s “moral vision...
...still working it out” because I’m having trouble reconciling the social, moral or ethical consequences which may or may not exist in allowing the state to marry two homosexual individuals. It is my belief that there are no so such consequences, just as there weren’t when the laws preventing the marriage of couples of mixed race were overturned, despite similar fervent outcry on the contrary. Nor is it that I’m having trouble reconciling my personal religious definition of marriage—in the Anglican tradition, the union...
Indeed, it is not a discussion of religious precedent or personal moral persuasion that we are having today in the Commonwealth but strictly a semantic discussion of whether the rights guaranteed to the straight can be legally denied to the gay, and constitutionally they cannot. If the word “marriage” and its religious connotation are the primary obstacles to the extension of these rights, then let us remove this troublesome word from our laws and endow all of our citizens with the same right to form a civil union with an other in the eyes...
...let’s get back to the real issues at hand. Nothing is more enjoyable than getting on the moral high horse, especially to call the kettle black. The truth is—like the rest of you with some moral conscious—I love to indulge in the ethical wasteland of “Average Joe.” I only wish that my sole reason for failure were an 80-cent bank balance or the fact that I don’t wear skirts...