Word: moralizes
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...forcing its way onto the national agenda. On March 5 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill establishing a two-year commission to study the economic impact of gambling, the influence of gaming's political contributions, state-lottery advertising, gambling-related crime and Internet betting. "The moral, social, economic and political ramifications of gambling are far too great to go unaddressed," says Republican Representative Marge Roukema from New Jersey, a state that has the second biggest gaming industry after Nevada. "We must carefully evaluate what has become an uncontrollable epidemic that has destroyed peoples' lives and families...
Meanwhile, the religious right tried, with only limited success, to make gambling a moral issue in the presidential race. On the stump, Pat Buchanan routinely declares that "gambling should return to the swamp whence it came." Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, showed up at a recent press conference to launch Tom Grey's Washington office. "Gambling is a cancer on the body politic, destroying families, stealing food from the mouths of children, turning wives into widows," he said, noting that in 1994 the Republican Party accepted more than $1 million in gaming-industry funds. Without specifically mentioning...
...REASON FOR THE DECLINE IN THE influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is the craven unwillingness of the church hierarchy to denounce and excommunicate members of the I.R.A. and its supporters. If the hottest spots in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality, then Hades must be crawling with Irish bishops. JOHN A. BROGAN III Hamburg, Germany...
...stuck, then, for our morality gurus with Bill Bennett and Leviticus? Not necessarily. Carter could have advanced the cause of a secular morality if he'd bothered to give a little content to Step 1. Moral reflection, if it is to lead to moral results, has to consist of an exhaustive and empathetic assessment of the impact of one's actions on others, including even the despised and the outcast. If we define moral reflection this way, some good people might indeed be pro-choice and some might be pro-life, but none could be pro-genocide...
...there is something about our winner-take-all commercial existence that systematically rewards nonintegrity, then that is something we ought to know about. And something that a President, if he is in the market for ways to seize the moral high ground, might want to do more than preach about...