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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that deal is no longer available. It is bizarre for a politician to promise not to let his most profound moral beliefs affect the way he governs. By contrast, Giuliani's point that Republicans will lose the election if they don't lighten up on abortion may well be true. Not only that: it may be the only assertion made by Giuliani or Romney on the subject of abortion in this campaign that the speaker really, in his heart, believes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro-Choice Convictions Overturned | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...still had the soul of a Democrat or that Ronald Reagan was a divorced cinemactor, as long as he was a kindred political spirit. At a time when you couldn't always get two Baptists of different stripes to work together on a bake sale, Falwell founded the Moral Majority on the argument that fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Jews, conservative Roman Catholics and Mormons had so much in common politically that they should overlook their theological differences. It was no good attending only to the Kingdom of Heaven, he argued, when a culture war was raging and the Supreme Court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry's Kids | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

Falwell founded the Moral Majority in 1979; at its peak it had 6 1/2 million members and a budget of $10 million. Falwell's power got him access all over Washington--but that didn't always lead to action. For all his public fire breathing, White House aides found him low-key and respectful in private; he did not march into the Oval Office with a to-do list. Falwell backed Presidents whose Supreme Court nominees chose to uphold Roe v. Wade rather than overturn it. Even as the bookstores filled with alarmed accounts of the rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry's Kids | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...homosexuals. When Warren, who also views homosexuality as a sin, talks about AIDS, it's about how to stop its spread and minister to the suffering. When he hosts a global AIDS summit, Warren invites both Barack Obama and Sam Brownback. That has the makings of a real moral majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry's Kids | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

...busy distracting everyone else from studying? I wish I wasn’t so damn popular. c) None of them. I just wish my legs hadn’t atrophied...my arms are getting tired from the trip between my bed and the desk. d) Moral Reasoning...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM's Study Quiz | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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