Sentences with phrase «public moral concerns»

I am largely in agreement with him on this point — but surely there are public moral concerns which in their offense to Christ deserve a public word, especially when one addresses millions in Christ's name.

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As a political philosopher who studies how abstract moral notions such as justice apply to political institutions, I am more concerned with the fact that under - counting the undocumented might introduce bias into our public policy.

The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

Here the Supreme Court began to set in legal concrete the notion that sexual morals and patterns of family life are matters of private choice or taste, not matters of public concern in which the state has a legitimate interest.

Indeed, his commitment to religious liberty was at least as much a function of his worry about domineering religious sects imposing themselves on the public square as of any concern about a loss of society's fundamental moral character.

On the contrary, there are standards of right and wrong within Christian tradition concerning human sexuality, based in human nature and biblical revelation, which are acceptable to homosexual and heterosexual alike, and which can form the moral basis of public policy.

I choose four topics: nature, education, culture and law as relevant to framing moral concerns and public policy.

Christian parents who care about the values of their children are rightly concerned about the moral and social values communicated through the public schools.

In 1962 and 1963, when the U.S. Supreme Court removed Bible reading from American public schools, social conservatives were overwhelmingly concerned about the moral effects.

A conspiracy of silence has smothered the public teaching of any specific moral meaning concerning sex.

Yet along with this self - interested fringe of values vendors there exists a solid center of genuinely concerned Americans who have seen the bottom fall out of the public moral conscience in little more than a generation.

What is more, they can be greatly helped if they see that this is indeed the chief stress in public prayer or church worship, so that such social praying is undertaken by a family of God's children addressing a loving Father (who makes demands upon them, to be sure, but who is no hateful dictator nor absentee ruler nor moral tyrant, but genuinely concerned for their best development as his children), rather than a kind of law - court or imperial audience with a terrifying deity.

I find civil religion motifs in Reston's focus on «the American Dream,» in his belief that the precepts of the Republic's founding documents were political affirmations of certain religious concepts, in his belief in America's unique moral role in world affairs — and in his concern for injecting morality into public - policy discussions.

Churchgoers have grown increasingly concerned about the secularization of culture and the moral, vacuum in public life, and many seek solutions in the reChristianizing of education.

He explains, «I wrote this book to address the nagging concern that citizens and political officials sometimes have whether it's moral or effective to achieve a partial good in politics and public policy when the ideal is not possible.»

If matters of ultimate religious and moral truth are declared to be essentially private — of concern only to individuals and not to society at large — then their claim of public truth is sharply undermined.

This image is a great way to muddy the moral waters and in the process soothe the concerns of people who'd rather this incident not linger in the public mind, since if Martin is not a perfect angel, then his killing is somehow not as much of a problem, regardless of the circumstances.

An artificial intelligence innovator and a professor of moral theology and ethics cast a unique light on profound questions concerning how we as humans experience the world, think and relate to technology at a public lecture sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER).

«The moral here is that these type of reputation concerns deserve a prominent place in the toolkit used by policy makers to encourage people to do things that benefit the public good.

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

Increasingly, though, leaders in both higher education and K - 12 public schools are finding new moral challenges in maintaining political neutrality while addressing concerns about students» safety and emotional well - being.

Ninety - one percent of parents cited concerns about the environment of public schools, 77 % cited moral instruction, and 74 % expressed concerns about the academic instruction.

Their reasons are as varied as the families who choose home schooling — from reinforcing religious and moral instruction to dissatisfaction with public school climate and academics to addressing special needs or mental health concerns.

The central concern here is the moral integrity of the public sphere.

In applying the public concern test, the Court noted that «while these messages may fall short of refined social and political commentary», Westboro's signs did highlight matters of public import, such as homosexuality in the military and the political and moral conduct of American citizens.

In its first public statement on the matter, the Holy See expressed «grave ethical concerns» and said most critical is «the lack of ability for pre-programmed, automated technical systems to make moral judgments over life and death, to respect human rights, and to comply with the principle of humanity.»