Word: sacrosanctity
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Tribe's arguments before the high court followed several tacks, but focused on the point that has brought religious leaders with widely different beliefs rallying to Moon's cause--the traditionally sacrosanct character of a religious institution's financial organization. It has always been legally acceptable for a religious leader to hold funds for a church in his name, and the practice is widespread among small churches, as well as in the Catholic Church. The late Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, for example, held millions in his name for the Church...
...Kennedy School to his side, then I suppose his failure to adopt their "rules" would be a rhetorical weakness. But it's clear Schell hoped to shift the ground of argument entirely to an ethical and moral plane, from which the "political science rules" which Hirschorn appears to hold sacrosanct appear unnatural, if not murderous. The structure of his book was to "simply say things are awful and then prescribe the best of all possible worlds," as Hirschorn puts it, but to say that things are intolerable and then point to the only tenable solution. Politics no doubt...
Defendants of the Pi Eta complain that such official actions are themselves immoral as they tresspass on the sacrosanct territory of free speech. Yet this logic confuses the principles involved. Few people deny the club the legal right to make whatever statements it wants. But the University and its members have the same right to declare that viewpoint inappropriate and to try and discourage it. While that policy would be disconcerting if applied liberally, all but the staunchest of libertarians would have to concede that it can be used against blatant sexism or racism without poisoning the atmosphere for free...
...amendments, is basically a moral contract in which the minorities make concessions, but so does the majority. And the main concession the majority makes is never to use its power at the expense of individual humanity. How can one conduct prayers in a public institution without interfering with the sacrosanct relationship of a person with himself? People in a democracy hold dual citizenship; they are citizens of their country and citizens of their souls. When the state starts imposing on the soul, democracy is in trouble...
Smith is surprising auto industry leaders even more by tinkering with the long-sacrosanct GM system. Says David Lewis, an aide in the president's office at GM from 1959 to 1966 and now a professor of business history at the University of Michigan: "He was all work and no play, but I underestimated the guy. He intends to make his mark on GM, and he will...