I believe that to use Christian tradition as a means of discriminating against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is not only deeply hurtful to them, their families and to any fair minded person, but profoundly contrary to the values of compassion and inclusivity that are the hallmarks of the Kingdom of God.
The State Department official who emailed The Huffington Post called Cotton's stunt "profoundly contrary to U.S. interests".
He was also, not to be forgotten, highly intelligent, profoundly manipulative, contrary, slippery and a superb performer.
"Yes, the colonial system was profoundly unjust, contrary to the three founding words of our Republic: freedom, equality, brotherhood," Mr. Sarkozy said.
A: The death of a child is so profoundly shocking - so contrary to the natural order of things - that anyone with a child is likely to find themselves dealing with their own pain and fear.
Furthermore, were it the case that midazolam selectively deactivates the hippocampus, one would expect the effects of midazolam on TI [ 18] to yield performance levels comparable to those observed in amnesic patients, but quite the contrary, amnesics are profoundly impaired on the TI task [ 17].
On the contrary, he insists they differ profoundly.
Official NATO pronouncements to the contrary "seem disingenuous, if not profoundly intellectually dishonest," said the report, and it played down the role of Taliban infiltrators in the killings.
On the contrary, overexpression of the protein profoundly disturbed Golgi structure, and Golgi proteins from different compartments including GMAP210 were found in vesicle clusters distributed throughout the cell.
But in this case, the West's enemy is equally Islam's enemy: as Muslim organisations from across the religious spectrum have made clear, the ruthless brutality of Isis is profoundly un-Islamic, whatever its claims to the contrary.
On the contrary, he says, it could prove a profoundly humbling experience.
