Word: uphold
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...issue of gay marriage is not morality but law. What would we do if a group of unlicensed drivers simply decided to create their own licenses? We don't need a constitutional amendment to uphold the laws of our country. SAM STOLTZFUS Lancaster...
...more fundamental is Kavulla’s misunderstanding of the role of campus disciplinary procedures. Universities create their own standards of conduct based not solely on criminal law, but also on the mission and vision it seeks to uphold. There are many actions that would not be considered illegal in the criminal justice system, or would not result in incarceration but still undermine the community values that Harvard has established. These cases warrant disciplinary action as a matter of both fairness and safety. As A Student’s Guide to the Administrative Board states, “The procedures...
...France’s national ethos and the very peculiar role of religion in the country’s political life justify the endorsement this legislation has received from President Chirac and the majority of his cabinet, the legislative body and the people. The law is designed to uphold the uniquely French principle of the secular republican state. It will succeed in doing so by affirming that the public school system, as the apparatus responsible for forging the next generation of citizens of that secular state, should not openly recognize religious differences between its students. Preserving secular principles requires that...
...decades, the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Boston failed to uphold its duty to area Catholics. While the bishops preached the Church’s elaborate doctrines of sexual morality, they disobeyed the most basic ones. They allowed pedophilic priests to continually prey on Boston’s boys—shuffling offending priests from parish to parish, as if that would cure them. Thankfully, the coming forward of victims and additional outside pressure, has finally brought this cycle of abuse to light and has caused the Church to put its practice back in line with its preaching...
...marriage. Such unions could be open to both homosexual and heterosexual couples in place of religious marriages. They would in no way demean or lessen the status of homosexual individuals or create “separate but equal” institutions reminiscent of racial segregation. Instead, civil unions uphold the rights of all men and women, regardless of sexuality...