Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each year, students arrive from across the nation and the globe. They grew up in different cultures, subscribe to different politics, prefer different foods and have differing moral values. And they are brought here and expected to eat, sleep and learn together. It is a miracle of modern universal tolerance and a crisis waiting to happen...
...final days of apartheid has there been greater activism in a national social issue," says Smith, 42, who was an antiapartheid journalist of some repute. "Rape victims are speaking out because we are people, not statistics. We have nothing to be ashamed of. [South Africa is] a so-called moral society that does nothing, that should be filled with shame." Indeed, in a country in which race remains hugely sensitive, the debate centers, surprisingly, not on race but on gender equality. An antirape TV ad by actress Charlize Theron, for example, was temporarily pulled because it offended...
...Falwell has made an important break, one he compares in historical importance with his baptizing blacks in the early 1960s (which many whites in his church opposed) and his founding of the Moral Majority in 1979. "Homosexuals are the last pariahs in this society," he says. "We've got to reach...
...progress, certainly, but it would still be a stretch to call the founder of the Moral Majority a friend of the gay community. Falwell made it clear that he still opposes homosexuality, and over the years he has devoted far more energy to saving gays from their supposed sin than to saving them from physical assaults. A typical sampling of Falwell's rhetoric is the July edition of his National Liberty Journal, in which he wrote that we cannot "blame" genetics for "adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws." Most famously, Falwell urged parents to avoid the British children...
...have two challenges. One is to clean up that which has already been polluted, and then second, to protect those areas, which have not been polluted from becoming polluted," he said. Bradley said he would use the moral force of the presidency to convince people that the environment was worth federal action...