Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moral Force. Bradley disagreed emphatically. The city charter (adopted in 1925) does not proscribe leadership, he argued. The mayor "has to take on the role of being the community's moral force. For most of its people, the city has ceased functioning. All it does is pick up garbage. How can you identify with a garbage truck?" The 6-ft. 3-in. former football and track star impressed audiences with his expertise on urban affairs. To whites anxious about the city's racial divisions, Bradley declared: "Let me say to those of you who are uneasy-that black...
...conscientious objector to one "who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form." Virtually all draft boards have interpreted those words to mean that 1) a draftee's opposition cannot be the product of a merely personal moral code, and 2) his opposition must be directed against all wars, not one specific conflict like Viet Nam. Last week both of those assumptions were declared unconstitutional by Charles Edward Wyzanski, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts...
...balance tipped by "the magnitude of Sisson's interest in not killing in the Viet Nam conflict as against the want of magnitude in the country's present need for him to be so employed." Said Wyzanski: "When the state through its laws seeks to override reasonable moral commitments, it makes a dangerously uncharacteristic choice. The law grows from the deposits of morality...
...First Amendment's ban on the establishment of religion. Wyzanski felt that the draft law is biased in favor of men who are religious. "Congress," he said, "unconstitutionally discriminated against atheists, agnostics and men like Sisson who, whether they be religious or not, are motivated by profound moral beliefs which constitute the central convictions of their beings." To critics who argue that the sincerity of such a personal code is too hard to ascertain, Wyzanski tartly replied, "Often it is harder to detect a fraudulent adherent to a religious creed than to recognize a sincere moral protestant...
...traced to the works and influence of the heretical English monk Pelagius, who denied original sin and, 1,500 years before Marx-or Harold Wilson-taught that human perfection was obtainable by civic means. There is an opposite, more severe, tragic tradition that he identifies with the moral absolutism of Saint Augustine. One or other of these disparate attitudes may be detected by Burgess in almost any important English literary works. Such rigorous philosophical dogma, inherited from a Catholic education, is unexpected in English criticism, which is not normally ideological although the Burgess polarities have been roughly characterized as Cavalier...