Word: neutralities
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...leaders of the religious right will see this as a major resource," he notes, "and seek to strengthen ties with it. There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist critics an unease about Promise Keepers' position on the man's authority within the family.(a speaker once wrote that men should "treat the lady gently and lovingly--but lead...
...would like to suggest that America is now in a period of dramatic transition, for there is overwhelming evidence that our present era is exhausted. This era has been characterized by the partially successful attempt at a liberal, amoral society where government strives to be neutral to specific virtues; in which pop psychology has advocated I'm Okay, You're Okay with its emphasis on tolerance and individual expression instead of virtue and responsibility...
Will and Sandel, perhaps America's foremost conservative and liberal philosophers, stand hand-in-hand in the belief that America must head into a time of a new republicanism, in which the government will abandon its value-neutral pretenses and actively seek to mold citizens to embody certain virtues so that they will be better equipped to share in self-government. Their contention is that confining politics solely to the economic distribution debate between libertarians and egalitarians is no longer appropriate. The new "statescraft as soulcraft" (to use Will's term) may well be inevitable...
...African Americans make up 12 percent of the United States population but 40 percent of those on death row," said Zirin. "The death penalty can never be neutral in this sense...
...Dutch should know by now that we cannot pull our finger out of the fragile dike holding back the floods of fascism. They were neutral toward Hitler in the 1930s and said World War II wasn't their war either. That is, until they were overrun by the blitzkrieg and had to be saved by American and British forces. We must never forget...