Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moral Issue...
Beyond the pros and cons of legal reform, there is a separate moral issue. The clear-cut condemnations of the Bible or of traditional moral philosophy have come to be considerably toned down. An influential 1963 statement by British Quakers held that "homosexual affection can be as selfless as heterosexual affection" and therefore is not necessarily a sin. A surprising number of Protestant churchmen accept this idea. Most will still assert that homosexuality is an offense against God and man, but usually with qualifications. Says Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy: "The Lord made man and woman, and this implies...
...defending books as well as people. A school board in suburban Richmond had ordered high school libraries to get rid of all copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a tender novel of race relations in the South. The board found the book "immoral." "A more moral novel scarcely could be imagined," replied Kilpatrick. In the name of the Beadle, he offered free copies to children who wrote in. By the week's end he had given away...
...classical Christian moralist, the teachings of the church are moral imperatives that apply always and everywhere to men faced with an ethical decision. To the modern-day existentialist, all guidelines are irrelevant; he argues that any authentic decision must arise spontaneously from man's inner sense of what the moment demands. To day, a number of Christian theologians expound a third way-halfway between the two previous paths-which they call "situation" or "contextual" ethics...
...Situation ethics" is rapidly gaining ground in U.S. divinity schools as a way of systematic thinking about morality, and it claims an impressive array of advocates. In Europe it has found a home in the thinking of Karl Earth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolf Bultmann. Its chief American exponents include Paul Lehmann of Union Theological Seminary, James Gustafson of Yale, and Joseph Fletcher of the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass. In a recent issue of Commonweal, and in a book called Situation Ethics that Westminster will publish this spring, Fletcher offers a lively, readable defense and definition of this...