The Air Force also revealed changes in practices and policies today, saying it was seeking to change a culture that appeared to accept violence against women and placed a higher premium on protecting friends than on upholding decency.
While the mayor appears to rely on a 1998 Supreme Court decision upholding decency standards for National Endowment for the Arts grants, that ruling was never intended to empower the government to use decency standards to withhold arts financing because of disfavored viewpoints.
Her work — usually sexually charged and tackling such themes as gender, desire, power, abuse and the unconscious — was attacked by Jesse Helms in a famous 1990 episode that resulted, ultimately, in a 1998 Supreme Court decision that upheld a decency test for federal arts grants.
He also has suggested that he will not uphold standards of decency during wartime recognized by the civilized world for generations.
The whole issue should've been handed over to a blue-ribbon commission of living, breathing economists — let them draw up a plan and defend it and stand up to the ranters and rug-chewers — and let Congress do what it does best, which is to uphold virtue and decency and to denounce narrow self-interest and partisanship, and then go to lunch.
I must uphold my moral decency; this should be my northern star.
When some individuals fuck that up royally, it is on the rest of us to uphold basic human decency by not seeking out the photos, not masturbating to them, and not blaming the celebrities who are no doubt humiliated enough.
A similar percentage of voters (68percentt) strongly agree that "government should uphold the basic decency and dignity of all and take greater steps to help the poor and disadvantaged in America" (Eighty-nine percent agree overall).
Instead, it upheld a Congressional decency test for awarding federal arts grants.
Though neither bookie nor bishop signed up for Michael Portillo's crusade to drag the party's social attitudes into the 1960s, both claim to uphold the liberal decencies.
