Sentence examples for controversial moral from inspiring English sources

Southern Baptists, he said, need someone who can speak clearly about controversial moral issues.

And don't forget the Civil Rights Act: a hugely controversial moral revolution that took great political courage.

Morally Modifying Technologies represent an under-incentivized means through which scientists and engineers could help us disentangle our society's most controversial moral issues and have three key components.

Many more Democratic politicians have, over the past 30 years, tried to duck controversial moral issues by leaving them to the courts.

This legalism not only expresses a hostility to politics, Gray argues, but it also depends on the assumption that when rights conflict, those judges can decide which right should triumph without having to rely on controversial moral views.

In that respect, Raz recast themes from the command tradition of the early modern period, in particular the idea that law is a system of norms that play a special role in the practical reasoning of its subjects and, with Hobbes and Bentham, that the contents of those norms must be identifiable without recourse to controversial moral argument.

Presenting the Pope's controversial encyclical on moral questions, Veritatis Splendor, in 1993, he demolished the challenge of a young reporter on contraception by counter-challenging: "Have you actually read Humanae Vitae?" Yet without implying the slightest disloyalty, he presented a clearly different approach from that of the Vatican.

This combination of what he calls the Privacy Fallacy and the Liberty Fallacy has led to the conclusion that controversial religious and moral claims are beyond evaluation by reason, truth and objective standards of right and wrong, and should therefore be precluded from public conversation.

Accordingly, some of Gert's distinctions between dimensions of relevant features reflect controversial stances in moral theory.

He also addresses the controversial legal and moral issues over Holocaust restitution and the ethical debates over the distribution of funds.

Mackie's objection relies on the highly controversial premise that moral judgements necessarily are motivating and as we have seen the non-naturalist might reasonably just deny that premise (that was the first of the three replies discussed above).