"Public morals" refers to the accepted standards or values of behavior, actions, and beliefs that are generally considered "right" or "wrong" by the majority of people in a society. It reflects how individuals should conduct themselves in order to uphold societal norms and maintain a sense of ethical conduct in public settings.
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But every major school of educational theory when reflecting
on public moral education agrees that there is a universal and all - inclusive morality.
It is time to ask why Catholic Lite has been such an abysmal failure in forming
public moral cultures in which self - gift, not self - aggrandizement, is the touchstone of human aspiration.
That same month, Pope Benedict XVI issued a warning to the U.S. bishops: «The entire Catholic community in the United States must come to realize the grave threats to the Church's
public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.»
IMHO, big pharma / food industry (e.g., dry baby milk producers, charging $ 50 / can) colluded with the fake Jesus - freaks to make breastfeeding in
public a moral issue.
The Whigs were the «internal improvement» party, seeking to improve not only public transportation but
also public morals and education, the treatment of prisoners and the insane, the protection of Indians, the rehabilitation of drunkards and prostitutes, and the future prospects of slaves.
They defined press offenses as the use of the press to commit: (1) crimes against the government and the King, (2) acts inciting to crime, (3) crimes and misdemeanors
against public morals, and (4) diffamation or criminal libel.
Conceived as a device for appeasing government censors and uneasy retailers,
shifting public morals and a changing market finally made it obsolete.
With equal persuasiveness, she makes the case that
public moral expectations need not be as low as they are in contemporary America.
It is against this background of
public moral struggle that the people of Israel prepare to vote on July 23 for their next government, in an election that pits the conservative Likud Party of Menachem Begin and current Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir against the Labor Party headed by two - time loser Shimon Peres.
It neglected man s present concerns by concentrating on his eternal destiny, it
neglected public morals by restricting itself to individual perfection, and it sanctioned social evil with its doctrine of predestination.
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.
Arguments that Are Public Fourth, religious people, and religious leaders in particular, must, when they enter the public square, make
genuinely public moral arguments.
The American people are capable of
serious public moral reflection; the American people are capable of rising above partisanship on a matter of this gravity.
In any event, it's an approach that seems to me worthy of a lot more discussion, even as, through appeals to
public moral reason in the legal and political worlds, we try to save what can be saved.
Information about birth control was once considered «obscene» material that would
erode public morals, in much the same way as pornography.
One journalist emphasized this as crucial to
generating public moral pressure: «If the people don't find out because we don't publish... the authority just says, «Whatever.»
The R7 model («Regulation # 7», referring to the regulation seven in the Japanese penal code pertaining to businesses
affecting public morals) consisted of a special refurbished Dreamcast unit that was originally used as a network console in Japanese pachinko parlors, in a newly designed black case.
In that case, where the defendants had been convicted on two counts of conspiracy to
corrupt public morals and conspiracy to outrage public decency in respect of the publication of a magazine which contained advertisements inviting readers to engage in homosexual acts, the House of Lords was split about whether a common law offence of conspiracy to outrage public decency existed.
And I don't think you should dress in rags, rub yourself with ashes and publicly flagellate yourself for eternity to
satisfy public moral outrage over your «sins» either.
The brutalities of the Chinese regime have also had a toxic effect on China's
public moral culture, as was demonstrated last year in a widely - viewed YouTube video: a truck driver in a Chinese city ran over a small child who was crawling across the street, stopped» and then ran over the child again, as if the toddler were so much road - kill.
... it is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realise the grave threats to the Church's
public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression...
Since his first arrest, Byle has been plagued by problems with Turkish authorities, including a five - year court battle for residency that ended, seemingly, in January 2015, when a court ruled that the government had not shown significant evidence that he was «a threat to national security and
public morals» or that he had ever even committed a crime.
If six out of every hundred persons who went swimming at a certain beach contracted a disease that had all sorts of destructive effects, it would certainly be regarded as a question of
public morals and safety.»
Catholic News Service: Pope wanrs of threat to freedom of religion, conscience in US Pope Benedict XVI warned visiting U.S. bishops that «radical secularism» threatens the core values of American culture, and he called on the church in America, including politicians and other laypeople, to render «
public moral witness» on crucial social issues.
It is certainly not a priori impossible that the Church might be led into almost insoluble and humanly hopeless difficulties, not only as regards the morality of certain individuals, but also
the public morals of society or large groups.
That requires the rebuilding of
our public moral culture.
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.
That approach» which stresses the defense of basic human rights as a defense of the human person made in the image of God and repositions diplomacy within the context of bold and
public moral witness» struck communism at its most vulnerable point.
Nevertheless,
this public moral requirement is only Jewish if explicitly constituted Judaically.
Prosecutors charged Shannon Denney, 32, with outraging public decency and
public morals, punishable by up to a year in jail and a $ 500 fine.
This comes along with related laws aiming at upholding the coalition's values, including «
public morals» and the defence of children and the family.
On television, he played Uncle Eddie on GROUNDED FOR LIFE and has had recurring roles on shows such as DAMAGES, COMMUNITY, FRINGE, THE MENTALIST, and
PUBLIC MORALS, from Edward Burns and Steven Spielberg.
«
Public Morals» is proof that even in this time of television's Great Overcrowding, one should never judge a show by its genre.
Prolific multi-hyphenate Edward Burns, who last tried television with 2009's «The Lynch Pin,» is bringing a fresh creation to the small screen, thanks to TNT's new series,»
Public Morals.»
Edward Burns Explains How Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and «Game of Thrones» Influenced His (Great) First TV Series, «
Public Morals»
Flaubert is on trial for writing the book (corruption of
public morals, in that it expects us to sympathize with the greedy adulterous title character) and as a defense tells the story of the novel.
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Public Morals» is set in 1960's New York City, and the series follows the officers in the New York Police Department's Public Morals Division, who struggle with the city's immorality while also trying to manage their personal lives as Irish - Americans.
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