His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant".
In matters of public education, which the religious right finds distasteful along moral lines, "they're already more than halfway there".
Of all the senators who attempted Wednesday to rally support for the doomed Manchin-Toomey background check amendment, Connecticut's Democratic freshman representative, Chris Murphy, probably faced the greatest temptation to borrow the moral authority of the Newtown families.
With such a tangle of religious and moral opposition, change seems a long way off.
The moral and practical imperative to begin to put arms permanently beyond use now needs to be hammered home, particularly by the Irish government.
"This is a very dark day for the moral standing of the UK.
We have a moral authority and it should not be misused by dictators for their own aims.
"I think the quality was so high," posits Zdenka, "because people were playing only for the love of the music, in such a place – for moral support more than for entertainment.
Such a failure to legislate would be a moral hazard of such a scale as to confirm, even to many unionists, that the UK government has indeed become corrupted, and that the referendum was won on a lie.
Meanwhile, it's a bit rich of George to take the moral high ground over his dad faking his own death, given that he effectively did the same himself, vanishing for three years and wrecking his parents' marriage in the process.
The moral complexity of genetic engineering, gamete selection and foetal surgery ran way ahead of old concepts of right and wrong.
