Word: moralizes
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...Roman Catholic Church holds as an important doctrine that sexuality, though a gift from God, is fraught with moral danger. There is also only one legitimate form of sexual expression--a married heterosexual relationship, always open to the possibility of procreation. So the nature of sex is inescapably bound up with the creation of new life, and any attempt to get around that nature, any variation upon it, is a violation of what God intends. The church therefore condemns masturbation for the same reason that it condemns homosexual sex and contraception. And Catholic doctrine also bars divorce, because it violates...
...that it's a bad idea - from the OPEC embargo to Iran to the Gulf War to the perenially-in-crisis Middle East, energy-related economic interests has dictated U.S. involvement in plenty of unwanted scrapes, and America's moral legitimacy in the Muslim world has eroded accordingly. The U.S.' oil-fueled alliance with Saudi Arabia was what turned bin Laden against America in the first place; the arguable legitimacy of his beef certainly hasn't damaged his following...
...continue to be baffled by the way PSLM used the same rhetoric to justify ever-increasing wages. Back when it demanded a living wage of $10.25 per hour, the group used the moral argument that workers were being forced to live in poverty. For the sake of justice, they argued, wages had to be raised. Those same arguments were later used to justify the union’s $14 per hour demand. There is a limit to the wages that PSLM can justify on moral grounds, and that limit has passed—Harvard initially offered a starting wage...
...real power of PSLM, of course, is that we know it will go to any ends to accomplish its goals, and that although it attributes a bully pulpit to Harvard, it is actually the one who received the bulk of favorable media coverage last year. It has seized the moral high ground as assuredly as it seized Mass. Hall and disrupted the lives of Harvard workers (let’s not forget that the administration secretaries receive a paycheck from Harvard) and students alike...
...Judaism predates Islam by millennia, this asymmetry obviously attests to opposing religious priorities—self-limiting in one case, expansionist in the other. The Jews’ concept of election puts enormous pressure on them to try to live up to the measure of God—a moral outlook that does not tempt many converts, and has made Jews notoriously susceptible to political defeat. By contrast, Islam is a religion that has affirmed itself through conquest. Along with its humanitarian and spiritual teachings, the sword is one of its proudest symbols, and the current effort to increase...