Word: righteous
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...Court halting the dissemination of marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Fortunately, hours after the federal appeals court in Boston denied a similar request, the Supreme Court refused to grant the order. As the fight gets tougher for gay marriage opponents, they continue to cling to deceptive and self-righteous arguments about the sanctity of marriage and the immorality of homosexuality. Yet it remains unclear why the meaning of marriage should change simply because others in committed, loving relationships are also allowed to marry, and why, even if the notion of matrimony is expanded to include two husbands...
...ensuring that Abu Ghraib was no longer a torture chamber. Now the front page of a Baghdad paper shows the defiled prisoners and the caption: "This is the freedom and democracy that Bush promised us." Psychologically, if not in fact, these pictures shred the last good reason to feel righteous about having gone...
...them, especially when they cost billions of dollars and American lives. The combination of arrogance and simplistic, black-and-white thinking ensures that this Administration will never recognize error in its radical policies. If the climate in Washington is poisoned, it is because of the meanspirited, self-righteous tone set by the Bush White House. There is a failure of leadership. JOHN T. COMPTON New York City...
...advertising based on Kerry's now infamous comment about having voted for an $87 billion appropriation for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan before voting against it--a statement that makes sense only in the have-it-both-ways world of the U.S. Senate. Kerry last week repeated his righteous declaration that he hadn't run a single negative ad against Bush--just in time for the release of a University of Missouri-Columbia study finding that 32% of his spots have been attacks against the President. And asked yet again recently on Meet the Press just whom he meant...
Ultimately we retreat to something safer to talk about: how there is no socioeconomic diversity at Harvard. We are all, it is fair to say, comfortable enough to be able to talk about this with the self-righteous indignation of the somewhat-removed...