Sentences with phrase «liberal society when»

The advisor to the interior minister, Halla Gunnarsdóttir, says, «We are a progressive, liberal society when it comes to nudity, to sexual relations, so our approach is not anti-sex but anti-violence.

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In their view, the American political experiment is liberal to its rotten core, and Baxter in particular thinks the very core of the core is the First Amendment that pretends the state is «neutral» to religion when in fact it is an insidious instrument for taking Christianity captive to provide «legitimation» for a capitalist, consumerist, warmongering society.

Formerly, when the liberal arts college was the major form of higher education, and when it understood its mission as the prepartion of leaders for society, there was some chance of such health.

When liberal Christians or socially conscious evangelicals challenge the failure of this view's adherents to articulate social and cultural concerns, the reply is that such concerns are not part of the church's proclamation, but that individual evangelicals have always been motivated to reform and renew society, almost automatically.

I do of course think there was «something wrong with society at large» when homosexuality was barred; and still a problem for liberal autonomy when it was legal but very widely abhorred stereotyped, discriminated against and discouraged.

Also, the biggest liberal concerns about Islamist practices and abuses involve matters that can only be implemented with majority control of the government (e.g. excessive use of corporal punishment in the criminal justice system), but which are much less harmful to non-Muslims, at least, when Muslims can only enforce their ideologies on co-religionists and can only do so via institutions of civil society rather than institutions of coercive government control.

Depending on where you live, more than likely, society as a whole is far more liberal than it was when you first dated.

After 1965, when community - action programs within the War on Poverty encountered substantial problems, he toned down his once strong faith in governmental expertise, emphasizing that some Great Society liberals had «lost a sense of limits.»

Plus it comes in handy when some liberal spouts out some nonsense like (and this just happened to me last week), «American society thinks of women just as poorly as Arab states.»

Back when the nominee du jour was John Roberts, a few liberals expressed concern over his possible membership in the Federalist Society.