This argument creates a distinction between Christians' moral standards and the morality Christians expect from their government, at least when it comes to immigration issues.
(What surely helps is that Bahais abstain from aggressive proselytizing, teach a personal morality whose standards -- no gambling or alcohol, for instance -- fit well in a culturally conservative area and regard Christianity as a divinely revealed faith. The station also runs free announcements about local churches' events on its community calendar).
Existence as a philosophical problem appears at this point: if there is a dimension to my being that is both meaningful and yet not governed by the rational standard of morality, by what standard is it governed?
And so, once again, there will seem to be something optional about adherence to the standards of morality: morality will seem to be escapable in just the sense that the morality system denies.
"As in our everyday lives, politics is the result of morality — our ethical standards.
In Butler the Court held that Canadian obscenity law violated Canadian citizens' rights to free speech under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms if enforced on grounds of morality or community standards of decency; but that obscenity law could be enforced constitutionally against some pornography on the basis of the Charter's guarantees of sex equality.
Conversely, normative approaches "focus on moral obligations such as standards of personal morality, moral development, social influences such as peer opinion and influence, and perceived legitimacy of laws implemented by authorities such as procedural fairness" (Kahler and Gore 2012, p. 105).
Before the standard morality and accompanying love story kick in, the film offers a refreshingly jaundiced view of marriage and a few sexually frank moments.
The study populations used in the present study were extremely resistant, as evidenced by <10% morality in the standard WHO tube test for insecticide susceptibility, in contrast to >66% morality in An. gambiae.
The number of deaths among women increased in all three countries during the study period, due to increasing numbers of women diagnosed with AUD in all countries, although standard morality ratios did not increase.
