Word: moralizers
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...Jesus helped her overcome the adversity she encounters because of her homosexuality. On the whole, I found the presentation simplistic, patronizing, and expressive of a remarkably white/American/Christian perspective. Indeed, I’m concerned that it may have been more harmful than helpful, confirming a sort of paternalistic moral superiority on the part of these privileged groups...
...does not matter that they are not the ones who initiated the scam, nor does is it matter that they are often not legally culpable, since the money never appears. None of this diminishes the moral deceit of their actions. Like their Nigerian co-conspirators, the Americans who take part in this scheme should be dismissed as dishonest cheats, not pitied as victims...
...There are plenty of thoughtful, angst-ridden Evangelicals, of course; the President's simple swagger isn't merely a consequence of his religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect...
...John and the people working with him are precisely the kind of people who will fight the long battle to bring sanity in this war,” said Ogletree. “His suit is timely and important, and I think we should use every legal and moral resource we have to prevent our country from entering a war that is more likely to set us back than move us forward...
...aesthetics aside, the case against reality TV is mainly moral--and there's a point to it. It's hard to defend the deception of Joe Millionaire--which set up 20 women to court construction worker Evan Marriott by telling them he was a multimillionaire--as hilarious as its fool's-gold chase can be. Even the show's Potemkin Croesus contends that producers hid the show's premise from him until the last minute. "The day before I left for France, I signed confidentiality papers which said what the show was about," Marriott tells TIME. "At that point, could...