Sentences with phrase «slavery as a moral issue»

«Slavery as a moral issue never interested Ethel.

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We reject slavery as absolutely immoral — such rejection of slavery on moral ground clearly has its roots in the Bible, yet is far beyond the way slavery, as a moral issue or a social and economic institution, is discussed in the Bible.

It faces openly the fact that the Bible is ambiguous about many great moral issues, such as slavery, the place of women, and war and peace.

Perhaps most important, slavery is illegal in almost every nation in the world; at this point the issue isn't moral relativism as much as political and economic will.

We had a dream — that the President would stand as firm as Abraham Lincoln when he faced the great moral issue of slavery — and, like Franklin Roosevelt or Winston Churchill, he would speak with the public, enlisting their support and reassuring them.

Preserving creation for future generations is a moral issue as monumental as ending slavery in the 19th century or fighting Nazism in the 20th century.