Sentences with phrase «moral affront»

When someone says you're wrong, you take it as a moral affront.»

«Anglo - Saxon cultures tend to be honor cultures, where any kind of opposition is viewed as a moral affront,» he says.

And then we have companies like EA and people like you marching in and proving people like me completely wrong — you actually take it as a * moral affront * that past games that felt the need to portray realistic AK - 47s didn't actively promote AK - 47s as a consumer product or tell you where you could go buy one.

Not exact matches

It's a moral issue - an affront to America.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

Every American should be personally affronted with your conflation of same - sex marriage and the downfall of American morals.

Nevertheless, precisely because moral acts are relative in this way, in all sexual relations certain promises are necessary if the parties involved are not to harm one another, affront one another's dignity, or illegitimately rob one another of their liberty.

Thus the war in Iraq, he claims, was justified not on prudential or moral grounds (Bowman is particularly dismissive of moral justifications for war) but because September 11 was an affront to our national honor and we had to hit back.

Since the HHS mandate invades the religious freedom of people who regard abortion or contraception as an affront to the moral teachings of their faith, the correct constitutional outcome is to toss out the mandate itself.

In this is rooted their sense of sin, not simply as ordinary infraction of the moral standards of a primitive society, but as rebellion against God and an affront to his holiness.

They define with precision the particular tendencies in corporate life which are leading to disaster, because they are an affront to the Law of God — to the principles upon which the moral structure of the universe rests.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

Dr Curry receives good scientific criticism as a personal affront, while simultaneously supposing that her distribution of bad scientific criticism is her moral imperative.