Word: transgressed
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...holds that discrimination is okay—so long as it is against religious groups that the Staff says “discriminate.” Religious groups, of their very nature, operate on principles of objective morality. This belief obviously conflicts with the belief of those whose actions transgress this objective morality. It is not for the government to decide between these parties...
...teenager should be awarded sheafs of Rimbaud for daring to transgress Miklavcic's and, I might add, the United States' repressive legislation by tasting the Dionysian delight that the ancients dared not withhold from their young. The herd instinct of this puritan university would have us agree with Miklavcic's judgements though most of us secretly empathize with the 16-year...
Beguiled by psychology, incapable of being shocked, you bourgeois Americans have lost the pleasure gained in contravening rules, and subtly undermining censorship. The one good thing about repression and Victorian sexual mores is that they are fun to transgress. Once they are gone, you can only thrash about in a pool of uncertainty, kept afloat by dedication to the significance of your psyche. Can anyone be truly satisfied with such frankness? Revelation and disguise can be much more entertaining than display...
...When women transgress that role, it's a big story," she said...
When it comes to gay participation, the overt concern is about role models, while the unspoken correlative is fear of child molestation. In practice, an acknowledged homosexual is an unlikely molester, if only because parents would be watchful, while married, middle-aged scoutmasters have been known to transgress...