"We're enlisting more dropouts, people with more law violations, lower test scores, more moral issues," said a senior noncommissioned officer involved in Army personnel and recruiting.
There is no more pressing moral issue, and no more pressing human rights issue.
Does Rev. Mohler really consider whom people choose to love to be a more pressing moral issue than, say, global climate change, nuclear weapons proliferation, grinding worldwide poverty, epidemic starvation, or genocide?
The political and, more important, moral issues at stake are markedly different.
"Breaking Faith" dwells primarily on the United States and Western Europe, where battles focus more on moral issues.
In America, George Bush has surprised Europeans by showing that it is possible to win elections by focusing more on moral issues and less on monetary ones.
This can't be argued on rational grounds; I think there are a lot more important moral issues in the world than defending the right of the rich to keep their money, but whatever.
And when they ponder potential applications, they worry more about moral issues than perceived risks.
It's more of a moral issue".
However, the handsome, sylvan waterfront is now prime real estate; this, more than any moral issue, has truly determined its fate.
