Word: moralizers
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Together with Jewish neoconservatives, the Christian right has attacked the Administration for making even tepid criticisms of Israel's military offensive, warning Bush against ceding the "moral clarity" of the war on terrorism. "We're concerned there's a duplicitous interpretation of the Bush doctrine--one for America and one for Israel," says Texas pastor John Hagee, who broadcasts his message on more than 230 TV and radio stations nationwide. Robertson told CNN that Bush's Evangelical support is "wavering a little bit" and that Bush made "a big mistake" by allowing Powell to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat...
...that what they have enabled is systematic child rape. They resist deep change by claiming that celibacy isn't the issue. But the hierarchy's cover-up of this evil surely has something to do with celibacy. Today's church leaders see sex primarily as an act, fraught with moral danger, not as a relationship, imbued with moral good. And how could they think otherwise? They have never known sexual relations--only sexual fantasy, masturbation and struggle. So perhaps it never occurred to them, as the writer Michael Sean Winters has pointed out, to see this abuse from the child...
Calling attention to group dynamics seems particularly appropriate for a play whose theme concerns the moral perils of following the majority...
...argue otherwise is just laughable. The U.N. must also jettison its reflexively anti-American tendencies if it wishes to maintain any sense of principled authority on the world stage. It may disagree with President Bush over global warming and missile defense, but it sorely needs his moral clarity and strong leadership. Despite the remonstrations of European elites and left-wing international bureaucrats, America is still the brightest beacon for freedom in the world...
Despite Hussein’s deplorable human rights record, the charges against him are not new nor are they different from those against dictators in all too many countries. However, the United States is not rushing to be the moral protector of the downtrodden elsewhere. What is different about Iraq is oil, and the Staff naively dismisses oil’s central role, as well as the Bush administration’s history of accommodating the oil industry. America cannot in good faith try to take the moral high ground on this issue...