Word: moralizers
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...MORAL COLLAPSE...
...that televangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson have softened up the book-buying public with their remarks about the ACLU, gays and abortion rights supporters being responsible for the terrorist attacks, it?s time for "The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family" by William J. Bennett (Doubleday; September...
Numerous Arab-American groups (including the Islamic Society at Harvard) have issued public statements condemning the terrorist attacks and expressing their moral outrage about the bombings. Despite all of this, Arab-Americans and those who may appear to be Arab-Americans are still being targeted in retributive acts of hate...
...also dangerously undercuts the moral case that must be made as we seek justice. If the U.S. once “harbored terrorists who kept slaves,” does that mean we must forgive states that have not yet reached our exacting standards of morality? The speaker went on to quote an antebellum speech of Frederick Douglass, which attributed to America “crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” Though our history is flawed, our past mistakes must not prevent us from taking the proper actions today. Equivocating on a subject of such...
...peace. It assumes that what terrorists dislike about America is also what Americans dislike about America, that they do not oppose our pluralism, our influence abroad, our resistance to their ideological fantasies; that, at some level, the attacks were justified; that if the United States were a more moral nation, they would not despise us so much; that the terrorists responsible for mass murder are fundamentally good people who would not hate without cause...