Word: moralizer
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...America--overextended, burdened at home and at work but still undyingly willing to have faith and hope. Shot intimately with handheld camera, it's a moving but unsentimental celebration of community, of pulling together not just because it's right but also because it's necessary. The show's moral center, coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler) puts it best when a former player asks him why he insists on trying to help him get his life together: "Because I need something good to happen." Is there anybody in America who disagrees...
...conventional view that religion has no place in public life. The son of a Lutheran pastor (as he too was for many years), he became an antiwar and civil rights activist in the '60s and a leading religious conservative in the '70s, jolted into that role by the troubling moral implications he found in Roe v. Wade. In 1990 he converted to Roman Catholicism, though he thought he was beyond easy categorization, describing himself as "religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic...
...that the Religious Right is a powerful force in American politics. Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska is merely the latest in a long series of political leaders who have exemplified its outspoken and often divisive stands on issues such as gay marriage and abortion. Since the founding of the Moral Majority in 1979, the GOP has managed to link political and religious conservatives in a surprisingly successful electoral strategy based on these “wedge” issues. But in turn, the rise of the Religious Right has deepened the gulf between secularists and believers...
...faced with the shenanigans of the old gang, behaving in their usual dreadful way. You could feel in the audience a sense of 'We don't want this.' " Within weeks, though, the audience's cynicism had returned, and the play drew cheers. Hare's great theme - power and the moral compromises it demands - is one that will...
...ironically exacerbated by homophobia.Overall, the chances of the activists being released are thin. But they are even thinner if cultural context is disregarded. Far in the future there might be a point in which homosexuality can find some immunity within Islam. Indeed, Islam has a tradition of moral universalism which predates most Western discourse on human rights.For now, if the issue at hand truly is consensus on a universal set of liberties and immunities for the spiritual and material well-being of Mr. Diadji Douifi and his colleagues, then we must move away from supracultural abstraction and blunt application...