Sentences with phrase «public morality does»

Public morality does not mean the shoring up of lax morals through legislation demanded by a culturally conservative voting bloc.

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Until quite recently, Americans have debated the issues of public morality in theological terms which they thought had something to do with truth claims.

Santogrossi does, that the Catholic faith itself may be part of public morality, so that the State could prevent the propagation of any other religion as an offense against public order?

What does public morality mean to Mondale, and what is its relation to religion?

Here the Pope says yes: «When it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and public morality.»

Morality or an explicit reflection of the public interest do not play an significant role, outside of the fact that, in the same way that neoclassical economics postulate that maximization of aggregate welfare is always good, the Party proclaims that realizing the Chinese dream will somehow engender prosperity at the individual level.

In recent years horror directors John Carpenter and Wes Craven have confronted their genre's alleged role in debasing the masses — engaging the conservative's paranoia that Hollywood is a prime polluter of public morality — and in doing so they've both taken interesting risks with their formulas and fans.

Ask him to define that «objective morality,» And ask him to explain how he knows that the 90 % of the American public that he thinks are incapable of critical thinking and who are immoral, don't accept that an «objective morality» (as he defines it) even exists.