Sentences with phrase «depraving public morality»

When Airbnb and Amazon become the self - proclaimed voices of public morality — a trend we're seeing in America more broadly — the pressure on megachurches to act with no less magnanimity is even stronger.

Marr wants to insist on the futility of any expression of public morality that must rely on theological premises (which he calls «dogma»).

Bischoff wants to insist upon the futility of any expression of public morality that is not ecclesiastically based.

Stephen L. Carter warns that we must not fall into the error of speaking «as though the Constitution and the decisions explicating it constitute the whole of public morality.»

In Stone v. Mississippi, the court determined that the state's inalienable power to regulate public morality trumped the constitutional rights of lottery grantees.

Nietzsche was right, of course; without belief in God the public morality must, in the long run, finally collapse into either anarchy or tyranny - and most likely into tyranny following anarchy.

They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

Public morality and general goodness were being corroded by vast waves of «pagan» immigrants, by crime, poverty, and industrial strife.

Many of these groups were drawn closer together by their action in behalf of better social conditions and public morality.

In any case the idea that religion is the basis of public morality, and so the indispensable underpinning of a republican political order, is a constant theme from Washington's Farewell Address to the present.

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

The Nixon - Graham doctrine of the relation of religion to public morality and policy, as revealed in the White House services, has two defects: (1) It regards all religion as virtuous in guaranteeing public justice.

As Christians, we should lobby for international and public morality.

Any society in history will need structures which balance enhancement of freedom and self - determination with checks on it by long - established legal and moral traditions of keeping power in the service of order and mutual responsibility, as well as creation of new structures of public morality.

Brother Santogrossi is probing the limits of what Vatican II meant by public morality.

«Why put responsibility upon the scientific community for the decline of urban society and public morality in the United States?

asks Robert George in «Public Morality, Public Reason» (November).

Would Cardinal Dulles consider this law compatible with Dignitatis Humanae's restriction of religious freedom by public morality?

The State must avoid coercion, but not necessarily if religious freedom is being misused to disturb public peace or undermine public morality.

Points of commonality still exist in the broadly Western understanding of human dignity and destiny that can provide a majoritarian basis for public morality.

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?

Those who, like the parents Lash describes, know that private and public morality are inextricably connected find little comfort in the ethical absolutes of the past.

One side's vision of public morality will win out.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

If a further, vertiginous decline in the nation's public morality is to be averted, we must insure that Oregonians remain the mavericks they take such pride in being.

Let us be mindful that it is not our Muslim fellow citizens who have undermined public morality, assaulted our religious liberty, and attempted to force us to comply with their ideology on pain of being reduced to the status of second - class citizens.

Douglas Farrow's «Thirteen Theses» speak of sexual and public morality on the most universal level possible.

The Machiavellian maxim that the end justifies the means, embraced by some privately while usually condemned publicly, is now becoming openly acknowledged public morality.

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality — even in a Hindu context — just as it was the encounter with Christianity that prompted Gandhi (and many of his generation) to revise the dominant understanding of Hinduism.

In other words, the Genocide Convention has given the campaigns for unilateral and absolute disarmament a basis in both public morality and human rights law.

The imprudent aristocrats encouraging these medical innovations changed the measure of public morality, substituting religiously colored human nature with the secularly safer option of individual passion.

Liberals and conservatives alike have resorted to religious arguments in defense of claims about public morality and the role of the state in defending public morality.

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

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

Scalia argued that such a principle, if applied, would spell the death of all laws enforcing public morality.

If religions thus eschew separate «communal power» and seek justice in society, there is no reason why for this purpose, they should not bring their specific faith - insights regarding public morality into dialogue and common action through secular multi-religious groups open for faith - interaction among themselves as well as with secular ideologies.

The Lockean doctrine of toleration that made such sense in eighteenth - century America, with its plethora of churches and sects, could actually operate to undermine any sense of common values or public morality, hardly a consequence anticipated by the Christians who embraced it.

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.»

Luther's final ten years were marred by infirmities and ill health which exacerbated his anger and led to outbursts of rage in tongue and pen, both in his continuing struggle with the papacy and in his depression over the excesses in public morality.

The Church could no longer interfere with the Government just as the Government could no longer interfere with the Church, but through voluntary reform groups the Christian citizen could, by moral pressure and a majority legislation, see to it that public morality was kept at a high level.

Yet even as the politics of the progressive paradigm comes under skeptical reconsideration, the model of public morality that goes with it remains largely unexamined.

It points to a much larger issue in the whole area of public morality: Can a corporate entity — a nation, a tribe, a people — repent?

(Incidentally Ayckbourn's 1987 play, A Small Family Business, nicely skewers some of the embarrassing conflicts between public morality, private greed and «the individual» which this sort of thing threw up.)

The current situation in Syria is strong evidence of a more ancient and enduring norm from imperial and Cold War days: when a strong repressive state has one or two very powerful allies it can easily resist the wider will of international society and public morality.

Integrity isintegrity; private and public morality can no longer be kept separate.

Then, there are the many troubles of Senate President Saraki, all hinged on alleged lack of basic integrity in government and scant regard for public morality.

The religious bodies should remain as that strong mouthpiece in order to maintain the delicate balance between religion and public morality.

The plaintiff also sought an order of mandamus compelling President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately sack both ministers in public interest and public morality based on the allegations of attempts to influence court decisions recently levelled against them by two Justices of the Supreme Court.

Singapore's internet regulator will block access to infidelity website AshleyMadison.com following a public... then it would not protect public morality,» said a letter to a newspaper forum.

AshleyMadison.com, founded in Canada in 2001, is an online dating and social networking service marketed... then it would not protect public morality,» said a letter to a newspaper forum.