Many of these critics, objecting strenuously to the issuing of moral report cards on congressmen and the endorsement of candidates from the pulpit, claimed that Falwell was violating the principle of separation of church and state.
This doubt about his promotions unsettled his mind as he struggled with more immediate issues, such as his place in the yearly ranking of cadets, the state of his moral report card, and worries about where his first posting would be once he graduated from the War College in 1912.
Government authorities referred to the video as an "obscene video clip that offended the public morals," reported the state-run Iranian Student News Agency on Wednesday.
Economists seized the phrase in 1895: "Lack of moral character," reported The Quarterly Journal of Economics, "gives rise to a class of risks known by insurance men as moral hazards".
On this week's Out Loud podcast, Aviv talks to Sasha Weiss, the literary editor of newyorker.com, about the practical and moral complexities of reporting the story.
I checked with William F. Buckley, who helped popularize the current sense of the phrase, and the inventor of modern conservatism reports: "Moral equivalence is a handy imposture by which behavior and misbehavior are equated.
After that the police will assess her moral progress and report back to the court.
"We decided that this was the right thing to do in moral terms and reporting terms," he said.
There was a lack of clarity in the allocation of responsibility for prisoner handling process and sadly too there was a lack of moral courage to report abuse".
In a move being criticized as a first step toward media censorship, the parliament passed a law that imposes fines as high as nearly a million dollars for coverage deemed "unbalanced or offensive to human dignity or common morals," the New York Times reports.
As the impassioned responses to the actions of whistle-blowers like Edward J. Snowden have reminded us, you face a moral quandary: Is reporting misdeeds an act of heroism or betrayal?
