"Today's decision," Justice Hugh P. Thompson wrote, "reflects not the evolving standards of decency of the people of Georgia, but the evolving opinions of the majority members of this court".
Miller, a historian, is very good at teasing out the connection between Graham's religious views and his evolving opinions on race, and the way that doctrinal controversies within evangelical Christianity (for instance, the argument between moderates and fundamentalists over whether God is a father to all mankind, or only to all believers) intersected with political debates about racial equality.
Many leading evangelical Christians have evolving opinions about LGBT rights, such as David Gushee, who has blogged about his own journey to acceptance, Jones pointed out.
He attributed some of the change to polarization, noting that the biggest driver was evolving opinions among Democrats, and, to a lesser extent, independents.
However, there is now a clear reluctance to offer outright condemnation, too, and the careful, wishy-washy language these politicians use shows an awareness that they are swimming against the tide of rapidly evolving public opinion.
It is the divisive and hard-fought decisions that take the longest to produce, as the justices exchange draft opinions and respond to one other in evolving majority opinions, concurrences and dissents.
However, as an infant art form, definitions are still evolving and opinions are welcome.
Which of these, if any, will be most important in shaping the sure-to-evolve opinions on the stimulus plan?
"There's an argument that can be made that if lethal injection were to be challenged under the evolving standards, the opinion of professional associations [like the ANA] would come into play," he added. .
If the AC is effective in facilitating the labour of the external auditor, then the auditor's opinion about the financial statements should be improved, evolving from a qualified opinion to a favourable one, or, in the case of maintaining a qualified opinion, producing certain modifications to the qualifications.
