Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...seem, this is precisely what occurred at, and, until last week, was validated by, Tufts University. There, the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) repeatedly argued that it denied student Julie Catalano a leadership position not because she was bisexual, but rather because she held the political belief that bisexuality is moral. Accordingly the TCF speciously claimed that it had not violated university policy which explicitly protects students from discrimination based upon sexual orientation...
...Furthermore, if an attempt to change a belief were viewed as a challenge to identity, if certain subjects were simply not up for moral debate, there could be no discourse. A campus debate between Democrats and Republicans would quickly founder as soon as one side claimed for its views the unchallengeable sanction of identity...
Next stop, Peru. Its President, ALBERTO FUJIMORI, resigned by sending a Dear Juan letter from Tokyo to Lima. He said it had "nothing to do with" a corruption scandal, but the next day an outraged Peruvian Congress fired him, citing "moral incapacity"--a first for that country. Two vice presidents also submitted resignations. The president of the Congress is now interim President...
...think I would want to have this election turn out to be a formative event of my moral-political life. Perhaps, after all, the problem is not that the election is so bizarrely close, or so messy; or even that either way it is decided, the result will seem, to exactly half of the American people, to have been an act of theft. No, the greater problem is that whichever of these two men ends in the White House, we are going to get a mediocre president. He will have a high hill to climb to persuade us otherwise...
...situations like the American civil rights movement and in apartheid South Africa, what was moral was resisting the law because the law itself was unjust...