George Runner, a Republican state senator, calls legalisation a "reprehensible" idea.
A man's conduct is considered inevitable and therefore largely innocent, but a woman's thought-out and reprehensible.
"While the thoughts themselves may have been reprehensible and deeply disturbing," said Raymond Vasvari, who heads the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, "it needs to be stressed that they were arrived at and recorded in the privacy of this man's home for no one's consumption but his own".
"And I thought it was reprehensible".
But it has to be said that morally speaking, these books uphold reprehensible values and one cringes at the thought of millions of teens reading them.
O'Reilly called this view "flat-out reprehensible".
They're variously shocking, funny, thought-provoking, nonsensical, contradictory and occasionally reprehensible: the only consistent thing about them is how inconsistent they are.
Nevertheless it is not clear that a philosopher or theologian who supported her belief in theism by such an argument to the best explanation would be ipso facto reprehensible or dishonourable in the way that Clifford thought.
When police look at a possibly radicalized but law-abiding American, their options can be constrained, and properly so; the First Amendment is meant to prevent the criminalization of thought, reading, or speech, even when the ideas at issue are reprehensible or touch on violence.
I'll offer some final thoughts, but first want to state the obvious: Racial profiling is not only reprehensible and illegal; it's also immoral.
