Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...houses of worship aren't only preaching these new values; they also seem more effective in carrying them out. Churches get things done because they generate, in the think tank-speak of the day, social capital. They possess the moral authority to call people to service on behalf of others, something politicians generally lack the stature even to try. Americans, Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center writes in the Ladd Report, are more than twice as likely to volunteer as people in Germany or France. And the percentage of Americans volunteering, unlike participating in government, is going not down...
...does not mediate the great national struggles. Already, growing numbers of conservatives are suggesting that the battle against abortion should be waged culturally, not politically. George W. Bush and John McCain rarely emphasize new laws to criminalize abortion. Instead they stress a hearts-and-minds strategy based on moral suasion--essentially turning the President into a cheerleader for community efforts to offer women abortion alternatives...
...Blinded by Might, former Moral Majority staff members Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson ask whether it is better to send "money to an organization vowing to pass legislation that would restrict the practice [of abortion] or volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center." Their implied answer is clearly the latter. And there is mounting evidence that even within the Christian right, that perspective is winning the day. In the late 1990s, the hyperpolitical Christian Coalition went into steep decline, while Promise Keepers, an organization that believes many of the same things but shuns political action as the route to achieve...
...venture further into the deep waters of technology, temptations increase. When it comes to temptation resistance, we are admittedly not at the top of our game in early 2000. This is an age of moral confusion. We love to talk about law; we hate morality talk. But we will snap out of this dive, as we have snapped out of others before. Among our characteristic American obsessions, two have been prominent since 1776--our technological inventiveness and our stubborn desire to know and do what is right...
...insane, refuse treatment and suffer never-endingly? Privacy is no absolute right; it is a nice little luxury when we can get it. Dignity is a necessity to fight for. And come 2025, life will be better: not because of the technology revolution but because of a moral rebirth that is equally inevitable and far more important...