The problem with letting publishers back out of contracts with noncelebrity, nonreligious, non-children's book authors on the grounds of immorality is that immorality is a slippery concept.
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Are the murders meant to condemn immorality or celebrate it?
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So does all this volatility and immorality make Morrison nervous?
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How is this cascade of immorality and injustice shaping our society?
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Through "amens," Mitch Landrieu decried the immorality of public Confederate memorials.
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But Cruz is very sensitive about anything that smacks of immorality.
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It reads like a horror story, an almost comic immorality tale.
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And a part of her realizes the immorality of pretending otherwise.
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To American sensibilities in the 1880s, immorality was apparently the greater evil.
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Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House Speaker, has called the wall an "immorality".
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Despite his fundamental immorality, Trump also communicated this kind of moral authenticity.
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"A wall is an immorality," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week.
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The senator described current high interest rates as the height of immorality.
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It has to do with: The wall is an immorality between countries.
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"It's associated with frivolity, weakness, immorality, femininity so therefore denigrated," he says.
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It has to do with a wall is an immorality between countries.
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To Democrats, he is also overseeing a damaging era of unapologetic immorality.
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Our Founding Fathers understood the immorality of foisting debt upon future generations.
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I do not believe that literature gives you the right to immorality.
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Gay men are frequently arrested and typically charged with debauchery, immorality or blasphemy.
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Ask Sanders about capitalism and he'll focus on its failures and fundamental immorality.
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Sometimes we slip up and make mistakes; other times we knowingly engage in immorality.
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You see, homosexuality, dope, immorality in general: these are the enemies of strong societies.
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The audience is meant to cheer as cops or detectives uncover iniquity and immorality.
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Consensus depravity, evil and immorality is, when it comes down to cases, always elusive.
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" Prior to that, she had called the idea of a border wall "an immorality.
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Dawn, the daughter of psychiatrists, locates the immorality within her seemingly moral legal work.
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"Her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying," Mr. McCain said in a statement.
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It's in this dimly lit, cluttered apartment that we see Connie's immorality knows no limits.
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"The fact is, a wall is an immorality," she said at a recent press appearance.
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Here is the commandment that experience teaches us: Immorality usually bites you in the ass.
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It is simply dirty politics and it's a sign of the immorality of our time.
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Under the Immorality Act of 1927, "illicit carnal intercourse between Europeans and natives," was strictly prohibited.
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Without such an anchor to the real world and without moral guidance, immorality inevitably creeps in.
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It was intended to punish sexual immorality, as well as the intentional killing of a foetus.
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Our exposure to content and people on social media influences our sense of morality and immorality.
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It has magic, color, and flamboyance cloaking an extremely macabre context of crime, duplicity, and immorality.
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At the hearing, Forlines said Awtrey violated the school handbook, which forbids "any kind of sexual immorality, impurity, including the use of pornography" and "engaging in acts of sexual immorality, including premarital and extramarital relations, sexual advances and sexual perversion in any form," according to NBC News.
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ONE Saudi cleric thundered that letting women drive would lead to immorality and a lack of virgins.
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The true sexual immorality of Vienna turns out to be rooted not in sensuality, but in hypocrisy.
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Getting WikiLeaks dirt may be immoral, however, there is a vast important difference between immorality and criminality.
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Despite Buchanan's dignified appearance and prestige, Carraway uncovers the truth of his racism, domestic violence, and immorality.
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So go ahead, ignore us "deplorables" And laugh at his scandals, his stupidity, his immorality, his hair.
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"To indulge in sexual immorality is to make oneself and one's desires an idol," the column said.
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Besides the immorality and apparent illegality of Trump's order, it's worth weighing the strategic effects as well.
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Check. Did it use its sci-fi premise to force us to confront our immorality and hedonistic tendencies?
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Then, when American soldiers saw bidets in French brothels during World War II, they associated them with immorality.
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Crooked politicians are thrilled; the rest of us look on shocked at the pageantry of cynicism and immorality.
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In a 1995 symposium on violent crime, he argued that the root cause was not poverty but immorality.
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" He railed against Hollywood immorality, and called Jack Kevorkian, who helped terminally ill people commit suicide, "a monster.
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Mr. Warlikowski's production is best when he pushes at the boundaries between art and life, pleasure and immorality.
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It is an alarming suggestion that this is what is reprehensible instead of focusing on its inherent immorality.
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" But McCain wasn't convinced: After the hearing, he tweeted that "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality" was "disqualifying.
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Like users of social media today, teahouse patrons loved tales of corruption, broken promises and immorality among the mighty.
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Yet to admit its immorality would be a damning indictment of her record and deeply unpopular at the CIA.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi's sanctimonious reference to Mr Trump's border-wall as an "immorality" sounded too much like Mrs Clinton.
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To these naysayers, her refusal to practice strict monogamy and respectability are a sign of Jasmine's immorality and recklessness.
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It is the ongoing immorality of not adequately helping those who have given so much to serve the country.
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However, her role in overseeing the use of torture is disturbing & her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying.
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" The faith's official website states that abstaining from blood is "as important as abstaining from sexual immorality and idolatry.
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He admonished what he deemed immorality and expanding secularism in American society and warned of impending judgment from God.
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" He then continued to speak on abortion, homosexuality, drugs, transgender rights and materialism, saying "immorality sweeps over our land.
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"A wall is an immorality — it's not who we are as a nation," Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.
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And by asking people too much, we make being moral too hard — which, paradoxically, can make immorality too easy.
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A church that excuses, say, sexual immorality or that opposes missions is deemed out of fellowship with other churches.
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When 'Incorrigible' Teen Girls Were Jailed "At 15, my grandmother was locked up alongside young women committed for "immorality.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has on multiple occasions referred to the wall as "immoral" or an "immorality," including this week.
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I think that if you read the report, [the ineffectiveness and immorality of torture] is an open-and-shut case.
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There are dangers in attributing trends in poverty to sexual immorality, the dissolution of traditional marriages, and other cultural pathologies.
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Probably for the same reasons, the Colombia that serves as a backdrop is a land of violence, immorality, and death.
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My original objections to Trump, the things that pushed me into the Resistance, were his immorality, dishonesty, fraudulence and grift.
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God is dismayed by Jedemann's immorality and instructs Death to pay him a visit and summon him to face judgment.
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It's definitely a compromised vision—where Far Cry 2 depicts nakedly your character's immorality, Grand Theft Auto, quite literally, pulls back.
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The committee ruled that his behavior constituted "immorality, lack of judgement, and unacceptable behavior," and he was banned from USA Volleyball.
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For all of Hope's flaws, her misplaced morality and wild immorality, there's something empathetic under the narcissistic ruin of her life.
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In one case, four young girls who were filmed dancing in a rain shower were executed by their cousin for immorality.
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They found that when people failed to behave authentically, they experienced a heightened state of discomfort that's usually associated with immorality.
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The Bible says flee from sexual immorality… God first of all, gave us sex, and he wants us to use sex.
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He persistently talked about sexual perversion and immorality but also led fans to believe that he was ultimately a good guy.
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Aside from the immorality of forsaking the Dreamers, Schumer's deal is bad for Resistance morale, which hurts Democrats going into 2018.
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The United States must maintain its global influence and cannot turn a blind eye to the immorality of chemical weapon use.
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It turns out that it isn't just the president whose narcissism, corruption and immorality threatens the wellbeing of the United States.
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A statement said he was "deeply disappointed by allegations of immorality and possible criminality involving humanitarian workers linked to the charity".
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To take no stand or stay silent in the face of mounting evidence of such of immorality is tantamount to consent.
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Unlike today's abortion-rights-feminists, the suffragists feared that sex unmoored from its procreative potential would increase male sexual immorality and infidelity.
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Moore also reiterated his opposition to what he described as "the immorality of our time," citing abortion, transgender rights, and marriage equality.
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The last few years, while publicly stating I was fighting against immorality in our country, I was hiding my own personal failings.
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"Thirty percent of women have a readiness for immorality ... but cannot find someone to encourage them," he said, according to the paper.
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They tend to agree on the immorality of abortion and same-sex marriage, though not necessarily on specific policy or political tactics.
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If one helps to elect an immoral man to the highest office, then one is merely validating his immorality, lewdness, and depravity.
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A chance encounter with a Tweet-size excerpt about this beneficent "invisible hand" supplies Jim with sufficient justification for his cutthroat immorality.
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This includes, but is not limited to, sexual immorality, homosexual orientation, or the inability to support Biblical standards of right and wrong.
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Members of the United Methodist Church from across the country signed a letter Monday accusing Sessions of child abuse, immorality and racial discrimination.
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I see the same happening here — society excusing Trump's immorality because some believe he would be good for their own agendas and purposes.
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Homosexuality isn't illegal in Egypt so authorities in the conservative country instead arrest gay people for crimes such as debauchery, immorality, and blasphemy.
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Students and parents' lifestyles may not include "participating in, supporting, or condoning sexual immorality, homosexual activity or bi-sexual activity," its policy states.
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But he predicted that he would discuss "the lying, the immorality" and "the willingness to abuse people who work for him" from Trump.
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They saw our principled stand against corruption and criminality, against immorality and hatred, as born of hyper-partisanship and the bruises of defeat.
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"It is time to close this stage of backwardness and immorality" Yunes said, apparently referring to the outgoing PRI government of Javier Duarte.
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In 1954, a Senate subcommittee led by the Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver held hearings investigating allegations that comics promoted immorality and juvenile delinquency.
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His rejection of Gina Haspel, the new CIA director, because of "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality" is what prompted Sadler's dismissive foulness.
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" Filipovic wrote, "It turns out that it isn't just the President whose narcissism, corruption and immorality threatens the wellbeing of the United States.
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"In terms of gradations of immorality, holding people for years who we have no national security interest in detaining is unconscionable," she said.
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There is only the profound immorality of abdication — of gleefully passing a mounting problem on to our children, and on to the poor.
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In response, Sessions's own church, the United Methodist Church, formally brought charges of racism, immorality, and heresy against him, although these were ultimately dropped.
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That made Titicut Follies the first film in US history to be banned from distribution for reasons unrelated to obscenity, immorality, or national security.
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Alleged immorality should not be a basis for denying an application, Justice Sotomayor acknowledged, because that has to do with the content of ideas.
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It has a point when it says the problem is not corporate illegality or immorality but disparities between national tax systems, which invite gaming.
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The current crisis at the border caused by Trump's policy of forced family separations is a mix of incompetence, immorality, carelessness, cluelessness and callousness.
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"If one helps to elect an immoral man to the highest office, then one is merely validating his immorality, lewdness, and depravity," he wrote.
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"The immorality of our society has seeped into our political system to corrupt our election process, threaten democracy and destroy our country," he said.
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While boys were considered delinquent when they violated laws, girls were considered delinquent for general "immorality," which included using profanity and going to saloons.
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Spark my interest with the fantastical whimsy of an Antoine de Saint-Exupéry children's classic combined with the energetic immorality of Wall Street bros.
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All this is not to say that Sanders is wrong to criticize the immorality, hypocrisy, and failures of current and past US foreign policy.
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Weinstein fell off Mount Olympus not because his alleged sexual crimes were heinous but because he committed the only immorality that matters: losing influence.
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WE DENY that the approval of homosexual immorality or transgenderism is a matter of moral indifference about which otherwise faithful Christians should agree to disagree.
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Conservative Christians frequently give their leaders "immorality passes" because their allegiance to the Republican Party has grown as strong as their allegiance to the church.
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This spring, he went on an expletive-ridden rant against the Catholic Church, accusing it of hypocrisy, corruption and immorality, and of meddling in politics.
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McDonell's chief mistake may lie in focusing on civilian death as the source of the most serious immorality of American war in the first place.
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Liberals frequently wonder how evangelicals and other conservative Christians can possibly justify supporting President Donald Trump, given his flagrant personal immorality and dangerously unfit temperament.
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Tassi was subsequently charged and found guilty, but only after his victim had been forced to endure testimony under thumbscrew torture and accusations of immorality.
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Indonesia's Islamists have traditionally pressed for restrictions on alcohol, as well as other activities of which they disapprove, as part of sharia-inspired campaigns against immorality.
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As soon as Krystal Stubbs decides to lean into the topsy-turvy immorality of FAM, she becomes both less sympathetic and a dizzying joy to watch.
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You could call this a rule of STD horror: Characters are either infected because of their sexual immorality, or they turn evil because of their infection.
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Observed across religions and national borders, Diwali is a multi-day festival that, at its root, honors the triumph of light over dark, righteousness over immorality.
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Just as morality can't be measured in the abyss of Trump's immorality, we can't lower the bar on other Republicans when it comes to women's rights.
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Like the recent beach read sans pareil Gone Girl, it explores female duality, deception, female immorality, and the deep confusion of betrayal: sexual, familial, and otherwise.
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The committees in charge of reading screenplays are composed of individuals who don't always agree with one another — or with themselves — as to what constitutes immorality.
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" Aron added, "Perhaps such an attitude is contrary to the morality (or immorality) of political action; it is not contrary to the obligations of the writer.
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In a huge slick poster, entitled "Why I Should Destroy My Dish", the jihadists provided 20 reasons, revolving mostly around the immorality of satellite television programmes.
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Why, of all the people in St. Radegund, was he alone willing to defy fascism, to see through its appeal to the core of its immorality?
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Dugas reportedly had 250 sexual partners per year – and his 'deviant' sexual practices and awareness of his HIV-positive status augmented both his liability and immorality.
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Voltaire saw the Adamites as a major menace to European civilization, since they kept infecting it with what he considered the horrible immorality of the Bible.
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After that day, the immorality of letting religion run wild, while atheists kept quiet and enjoyed delicious potluck suppers full of community and Jell-O, was inescapable.
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As a few examples, the United Methodist Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church in America, and Pentecostals all include official language ascribing immorality to queerness.
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The Center for Investigation of Organised Crime, a branch of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), monitors social media to hunt for evidence of immorality or subversion.
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Mr Bolsonaro's admiration for the dictatorship stems in part from his antipathy for the political left, which he deems to be a source of immorality and corruption.
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Many critics see Kim's choice to do this job as a sign of stupidity and immorality, and consider her unworthy of the millions she has racked up.
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It charges Sessions with violating church rules or principles on child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and "dissemination of doctrines" contrary to those of the United Methodist Church.
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Rania Youssef will face a trial in January in Cairo after receiving a number of complaints about her attire, accusing her of inciting immorality and promoting vice.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was wrong to describe a wall as "an immorality," for we need border security, and a wall in some places can be effective.
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And if Moore wins, he'll be a symbol of immorality and toxicity that the Democrats will hang around the neck of every Republican candidate in the 2018 midterms.
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Learning of the arrest some Klansmen were doubly dismayed — by the alleged immorality but also by the discovery that a woman was a key organizer of the KKK.
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P.W. Botha (no relation), who led the country from 1978 to 1989, would wag a finger—both temper and voice rising—when challenged over the immorality of apartheid.
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Yet these future uncertainties must be weighed against the clearly untenable status quo, and against the immorality of U.S. taxpayer funds being used to finance and reward terrorism.
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Congressional Republicans have debased our politics, assaulted the truth, ignored vital processes, lied to the American people, endorsed immorality and flouted reality like no party in modern times.
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I remember taking a walk one day, trying to convince my mom that abortion is an act of evil and immorality, and how I was completely pro-life.
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WASHINGTON — When Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California stepped to a microphone last week and pronounced President Trump's border wall "an immorality," most Democrats cheered and nodded their heads.
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Some conspiracy theories — including one peddled by an American lawmaker, which claims that the virus was a bioweapon originating from a Chinese lab — plumb the depths of immorality.
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The heart of Justice Kagan's opinion in Iancu v Brunetti is her analysis of immorality and scandalousness, the two concepts the PTO relied upon to deny FUCT a registration.
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By October of this year, with Trump's immorality being trumpeted everywhere, 70 percent of Republicans were distinguishing between politicians' private and public lives — double the number five years ago.
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" Tassis also doesn't believe gay people have a moral duty to support other marginalized people, like refugees: "Humanitarianism," as he called it, is a "decadent millionaire upper-class immorality.
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The young prince's almost certain culpability in Mr. Khashoggi's killing underscores his extreme recklessness and immorality, while exposing him as a dangerous and unreliable partner for the United States.
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While some were surely upset about the accusations, college football fans have long had a habit of only caring about their team's immorality if it's hurting them on the field.
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Over many decades of public life, Trump has shown that for him, winning is all that matters and if victory requires a bit of distortion and immorality, so be it.
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Calling Chupeta "a bottomless pit of immorality," Lichtman enumerated the many surgeries performed on the witness' jaw, his eyes -- "I wish he would have not done the eyes" -- and ears.
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Similarly, his full-throated dissent in Obergefell v Hodges, the 2015 case opening marriage laws to same-sex couples, focused not on the immorality of gay marriage but on democratic theory.
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Included in the exhibit is an early 20th century postcard of Nettie the Fat Girl, a popular sideshow attraction that drew in droves of people to gawk at her hypothetical immorality.
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While a smaller share of Republicans found Democrats especially rigid, larger proportions — between 45 percent and 47 percent for each category — said Democrats stood out for their immorality, laziness or dishonesty.
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He said that when he began working with an Israeli who was translating his latest novella into Hebrew, government loyalists wrote articles accusing him of immorality and collaborating with the enemy.
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Tens of thousands of protesters march in the streets of the Chechen capital of Grozny after Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov urges the faithful to demonstrate against the "immorality" of Charlie Hebdo.
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" 'A huge admission' Dr. Arthur Caplan, founding director of the division of medical ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center, described Iinuma's testimony as "a huge admission of fundamental immorality.
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I don't know what "American Made" is about, either — it looks vaguely action-oriented with a dash of the immorality that never scares Leonardo DiCaprio, and a squirt of political comedy.
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Sci follows alcoholic tattoo artist, Bill Sanders, around his dingy Houston shop as he pontificates on the immorality of the Vietnam War and murmurs offensive sexist provocations to his female clients.
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You might think that people simply associate immorality with disbelief in general, but further studies seem to point out that the sentiment is specifically expressed towards those who don't believe in God.
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" While Egypt does not specifically have laws criminalizing homosexuality, BBC notes that authorities often arrest people who are suspected of engaging in consensual homosexual behavior on charges of "debauchery", "immorality" or "blasphemy.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban warned media organizations on Thursday not to promote immorality and foreign cultures a day after claiming responsibility for killing seven journalists for the country's most-watched television channel.
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Further, the document says, "We deny that the approval of homosexual immorality or transgenderism is a matter of moral indifference about which otherwise faithful Christians should agree to disagree," article 10 says.
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For a decade he railed against immorality like a true-dyed Muslim fanatic, though many, seeing him disappear into the tour van with yet another girl, wondered how deep it really went.
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" Suffer the children The United Methodists' complaint against Sessions lists four charges: child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and "dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist Church.
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Unfortunately, there is plenty of American precedent for the kind of immorality and cowardice Trump is banking on to protect himself during the midterms—because that's what we did during the Holocaust.
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Wheeling and dealing from his school's pay phone and employing a penniless music teacher as a frontman, little JR builds his improbable business empire precisely because of his childish immorality and greed.
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CAIRO – An Egyptian court has convicted a female TV presenter of inciting immorality for offering on-air advice to women on how to be single mothers, sentencing her to three years in prison.
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"Thirty percent of Egyptian women are ready for immorality, they just can't find someone to encourage them," said Sobky, whose Facebook page, "Diaries of a Suffering Husband", has more than one million followers.
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During her testimony, Haspel often attempted to have it both ways, insisting that the CIA would never again embrace such a program, but refusing to clearly refudiate the obvious immorality of the era.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian film star faces trial next month promoting immorality after attending the Cairo Film Festival in a see-through dress, state-owned online newspaper Al-Ahram Gate reported on Saturday.
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That site contains a massive library of essays penned by church leaders regarding sexual immorality, anti-Muslim rhetoric, visions delivered by God, and links to groups like the anti-communist John Birch Society.
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But it has failed to capitalize on what some observers saw as an error by the speaker when she described a border wall as an "immorality" -- language that might jar with conservative Democrats.
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It's time for at least one political party to show some moral backbone at a moment when it seems that the entire country is sinking into a morass of indecency, inhumanity and immorality.
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"Being the head of Beirut Pride, I was arrested for the investigation as I was believed to be coordinating and organizing events that disrupt public order and incite debauchery and immorality," he says.
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And American atheists are frequently forced to defend themselves against charges of amorality, or immorality, which is not something that one would ever be asked to do on this side of the Atlantic.
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Find out why — and read on for the author's thoughts about masculine silence, "bullshit" men's rights activism, and why anyone who thinks they deserve to have it all is on the brink of immorality.
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While high doses and the lack of sleep that they produce can certainly lead to paranoia and addiction in some cases, the drug itself does not automatically induce violence, brain damage, addiction or immorality.
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"Thirty percent of Egyptian women are ready for immorality, they just can't find someone to encourage them," said Sobky, whose Facebook page called "Diaries of a Suffering Husband" has more than one million followers.
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" One of the protesters, a man, told the gathering that the Quran is clear that women should be veiled, and he lamented that God's instructions have become "a tool for the immorality called fashion.
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At the end of the day, Mattis proved ineffective or uninterested in preventing shocking abuses of power and flagrant immorality only to throw down over a perfectly legitimate order from the commander in chief.
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A maniacal mad king and his court of scheming, self-absorbed princesses and princelings, swathed in the finest silk and the most brazen immorality, ruling with total disregard for the good of their people.
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But their remarkable silence in the face of the president's abject immorality is an abdication of their leadership responsibility, and undermines the credibility of the faith communities to which they have dedicated their lives.
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As long as Americans are blasé about the immorality of subjecting prostrate humans to intentional cruelty, and as long as their government can operate with impunity, Mr. McCain's best lesson will need continuous relearning.
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"Defending these creatures, who are sources of immorality, dangerous diseases and who have been cursed by God, Western circles trying to destruct of our national traditions under the name of 'human rights,'" the translation reads.
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In the foreword of When the Focus Shifts: The Prayer Book of Arlene Holmes 2013-2014, she wrote, "This book is being published to raise awareness of the immorality of the death penalty," she writes.
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But as this "vice map of Chinatown," created by the City of San Francisco, shows, attempts to "save" immigrant victims from their traffickers often bled into prejudice against the immorality of the immigrant community itself.
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Pakistan's government has ruled that celebration of the holiday is "against the teachings of Islam," and that it uses the cover of spreading love to promote "immorality, nudity and indecency," per the U.K.'s Metro.
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While it's true that Old Testament Hebrews are often shown as proto-Christians and early Christians frequently figure in tales of imperial Rome, these movies typically wallow in pagan "immorality," if only to deplore it.
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Earlier in the day, newly elected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized the President's wall as "a waste of money" and "an immorality" during a news conference hours after reclaiming the gavel in the new Congress.
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What was largely seen as an act of sexual infidelity and immorality in the 1990s is seen today as an abuse of power against a female subordinate by the most powerful man in the world.
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This dispute is more than a government shutdown -- it's a potentially decisive showdown over a wall that is an existential issue for the President and a symbol of national immorality for Democrats who oppose him.
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Throughout the 1980s the free world was politically united and morally confident: It believed in its liberal-democratic values, in their universality, and in the immorality of those who sought to abridge or deny them.
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Others on the right are genuinely sickened by what they imagine liberals want to allow, even if they also appear to be enjoying the chance to once again scold the left for its purported immorality.
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In an op-ed for the Washington Post this January, Erickson wrote that celebrating Trump now will only hurt conservatism in the long run: Conservatives are reveling in their successes and increasing their immorality concurrently.
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The findings suggest that, despite declining attendance at churches, mosques and temples in many communities, the cultural tenet that religion is a bulwark against immorality remains intact, experts said, even in those who deny it explicitly.
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In a letter signed by over 600 members of the clergy and the laity, Sessions is accused of child abuse, immorality, racism, and misusing a Bible verse to justify the enforcement of the child separation policy.
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These new scandals provoke fresh nausea at the hypocrisy of religious blowhards like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson who thundered at the immorality of gay people even as their own Southern Baptist network tolerated child rape.
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"The monstrous immorality of Trumpcare is perfectly encapsulated in House Republicans' plan to exempt their own health coverage from the damage it will do to everyone else," said the House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi of California.
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It further called for a ban on celebration of this day in public places, arguing that in cover of spread of love in fact, immorality, nudity and indecency is being promoted which is against the Islamic culture.
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Here is Article 10 of the Nashville Statement, in its entirety: WE AFFIRM that it is sinful to approve of homosexual immorality or transgenderism and that such approval constitutes an essential departure from Christian faithfulness and witness.
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Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE (D-Calif.) described the concept of a wall as "an immorality" last week.
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Yet by the early 1990s, the right-to-life public argument would prevail, as evangelical advocates would emphasize, and the evangelical base would accept, the rights-of-the-unborn justification over the immorality of obtaining an abortion.
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That is, run against Trump from the right in the national election as, say, a libertarian — who could oppose Trump for his tariffs, his piling up of the national debt, his opposition to immigration and his immorality.
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These agencies were intended to "cleanse" their industries of immorality and corruption, but their primary purpose — in Hollywood in particular — was to reinstate the sort of mythology that would, decades later, protect Weinstein and dozens of other abusers.
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" Beck went on to suggest the ways in which the democratic process could be used to fight Hillary while in office, but pointed out that a Donald Trump presidency would only validate the candidate's "immorality, lewdness, and depravity.
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The experience not only shaped his own personal views on both the immorality and the ineffectiveness of torture but also endowed him with a level of credibility and moral authority on the subject that few others could match.
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Embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore said in an interview released Monday that he's learned while running for Senate that "immorality has sunken to a new low," citing political advertisements run by his Democratic opponent, Doug Jones.
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In the letter, the group of churchgoers, including clergy and church leadership, accused the attorney general of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination and dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of the doctrine of the United Methodist Church.
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Others said the case revealed the mind-set of the men who had brought the charges, using a law that allows one Egyptian to file a lawsuit against another for vague crimes like immorality and "insulting" the nation.
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The trend was especially pronounced among white evangelicals, who strongly supported Mr. Trump and went from being the least likely to the most likely to agree that a candidate's personal immorality had nothing to do with public service.
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Representative Adam Smith of Washington, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, seemed to break from Ms. Pelosi's "immorality" remark during an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week" when he tried to explain his past votes for border barriers.
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Mr. Sabry, a portly 20153-year-old lawyer, is one of the most prolific litigators in a country where the law allows one citizen to press charges against another for vague crimes like immorality and "insulting" the nation.
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It's exposing the deep immorality we have in this country right now where we're talking about repealing the Affordable Care Act, when we should be thinking about how to go from the Affordable Care Act to universal health care.
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The complaint against Sessions included charges of child abuse, immorality, racial discrimination, and the dissemination of false doctrine — the latter charge a reference to his use of the Bible verse Romans 13 to advocate for submission to government authority.
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Like Bobby, she was concerned with the Axelrod money and the Axelrod family above all — in fact, she encouraged him to send the New York town into bankruptcy, even when everyone else was balking at the obvious immorality of that move.
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After a group of Catholics was arrested for protesting at a military facility in Georgia, they brought a religious liberty defense, explaining that their protest was a "prophetic action to raise the consciousness of society about the immorality" of nuclear weapons.
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One day later, there was a report that Ava DuVernay (A Wrinkle in Time, Selma) would be directing New Gods, a DC saga of virtue and immorality that takes place in a realm of immortal beings known as the Fourth World.
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Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore released a video message on YouTube in which he appeared to refuse to admit defeat and railed against "immorality" in the U.S. Moore looks to have lost the Alabama Senate election race which took place Tuesday.
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"This is simply dirty politics, and it's a sign of the immorality of our time," he told a standing room-only crowd in Henagar, a city of about 2,300, during his first rally since Mr. Trump came to his defense.
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Looking back, some of the grossest immorality of the late 20th century had nothing to do with gay bath houses, as preachers sometimes suggested, but rather with the blowhard televangelists who suggested that AIDS was God's punishment of gay men.
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In a statement on Wednesday night, Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said that "her refusal to acknowledge torture's immorality is disqualifying," and he urged his colleagues to vote against her.
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In another sign of dissent, more than 600 members of the United Methodist Church signed a statement this week accusing Attorney General Jeff Sessions — whose department was charged with enforcing the separation policy — with child abuse, immorality and racial discrimination.
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But we are still waiting for an analysis of how so many evangelicals can dismiss that the acts ever happened, even in the face of the president's own admissions, his personal lawyer's admissions and the evidence that makes the immorality obvious.
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Russia's guidelines describe abortion as the "murder of a living child" and instruct counsellors to "awaken maternal feelings", convince the woman of "the immorality and cruelty" of abortion and lead her to conclude that the means to raise the baby can be found.
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Since he was spawned from the Gate of Milnüür during the creation of humanity, he has spent the better part of an eternity curing existence itself with evil, immorality, death, and murder on a scale only achievable by his dreadfully immortal self.
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Watching LeBron come off a series where his squad looked deeply vulnerable and proceed to whip the Raptors' asses for the third year in a row, I have been made to wonder: at what point does excellence cross the threshold of pure immorality?
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Instead, the narrative initially maintains its alternating focus on "Bad's" two major holdovers: attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), continuing his descent into anything-for-a-buck immorality; and Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), the weary cop who has started operating in the darkness.
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Because the nature of the corrupt bargain the right made with Donald Trump is so clear, an entire generation of Republicans and conservatives will spend their whole lives trying to outrun the taint of their own immorality, if and when Trump's administration collapses.
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School officials can deny students admission or expel them for "participating in, supporting, or condoning sexual immorality, homosexual activity or bi-sexual activity, promoting such practices, or being unable to support the moral principles of the school," according to the parent agreement.
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He has a right to keep his personal life personal, and the immorality of abandoning a single mother and a child now seem moot if the mother may well be dead and the son, if still alive, is in his late 50s.
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Damien said he was told that if he refused to sign the pledge, he would be referred to the investigation judge for interrogation on the basis of articles pertaining to the incitement to immorality and to the breach of public morality for coordinating the activities.
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The grossest immorality of the 1980s did not unfold in gay bathhouses but among those who portrayed AIDS as God's punishment for gays — "human garbage," in the words of Anita Bryant — in ways that slowed the health response and led vast numbers to die unnecessarily.
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While it would be wrong to suggest that all religious people are hostile towards LGBT rights, churches have been among the most outspoken voices in the debate, and those that preach the immorality of same-sex relationships are doing it to ever-dwindling congregations.
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But the plight of the Uighurs and Hong Kongers — and the recent exposure of Nazi-like medical procedures such as forced organ harvesting against oppressed minority groups — is fostering second thoughts on not only the immorality but also the strategic wisdom of continued silence.
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Following Roe, many evangelical Christians were slow to join the anti-abortion movement, and when their pace increased at the end of the 1970s, their public arguments against abortion focused more on the immorality of abortion than the right-to-life of the unborn.
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Offred is a Handmaid, forced to live as a breeding concubine; each month, she is ceremonially raped by her Commander, a man of high status, in the interest of rebuilding a population that has dwindled owing to secular immorality, environmental toxicity, and super-S.T.D.s.
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" But the magazine's president, Timothy Dalrymple, wrote in the editorial, headlined "The Flag in the Whirlwind," that evangelicals' embrace of Trump means being tied to his "rampant immorality, greed, and corruption; his divisiveness and race-baiting; his cruelty and hostility to immigrants and refugees.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Police Criticize Trump for Urging Officers Not to Be 'Too Nice' in Handling Suspects" (news article, July 30): In a race to the bottom for immorality and unethical conduct, President Trump encouraged police officers to use brutal methods when apprehending suspected criminals.
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While the idea of someone getting inspired and thrilled by the Joker and then emulating him is disturbing, it's difficult to voice that concern without it coming across like anticipatory virtue signaling — or placing an undue burden on art itself to protect its viewers from immorality.
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It's cover for people who get indignant about sexual immorality but are perfectly at ease with economic discrimination, with exploitative behaviors toward women in other ways, with just refusing to acknowledge the fact that another part of women's reproductive systems means that they actually need paid maternity leave.
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"By giving $900 million to a dictatorship, they are funding a systematic human rights violator, they are funding immorality and for Maduro to stay in power while he keeps killing people," said Eduardo Lugo, 23, a Venezuelan attending college in New York and a leader of the protest.
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And the notion among Clinton's bi-coastal backers, as well as some prominent Republicans, that support for Trump is simply beyond the pale and reflects grave immorality has great sway — but perhaps to a larger extent among the denizens of such places than in the rest of the country.
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Female voters "propose to do away with vice and immorality, to prevent the social evil" — sex work — "by giving women remunerative employment, to forbid the sale of spiritous liquors and tobacco and to teach men a higher and nobler life than the one they now follow," she said.
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But as more and more stars declined to outwardly abide by Hollywood's morality code, the real shift wasn't toward "immorality" so much as self-righteousness: You could try to stifle Hollywood, this new narrative suggested, but it would always resist, and never again allow its true self to be censored.
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"The fact is a wall is an immorality," House Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE said earlier this year, refusing to give the White House more than one dollar toward the federal project.
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"Samir is a mild-mannered soul who was driven to hunger strike by sheer desperation, and he was gratified to know that his suffering forced the world to remember the immorality of Guantanamo," said Cori Crider, a lawyer for the men and strategic director at the international legal firm Reprieve.
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"In a head-spinning reversal," Robert P. Jones, the C.E.O. of P.R.R.I., wrote in the July 2017 issue of The Atlantic, white evangelicals went from being the least likely to the most likely group to agree that a candidate's personal immorality has no bearing on his performance in public office.
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Mr. McConnell has tried to turn up the pressure on Ms. Pelosi in recent days — with little success — in a series of speeches on the Senate floor, accusing the "very distinguished congresswoman from San Francisco" of playing to her party's left wing with her description of the wall as an immorality.
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While artists might have been associated with immorality in their personal lives (hence why, say, for centuries women were prohibited from acting onstage, lest they be exposed to the sexual corruption of the theatrical world), the culturally pervasive idea that artists shouldn't even be bound by morality is more recent.
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" At least one politician, Ayaz Efendiyev of the opposition Justice Party, has spoken out in support of the raids, saying: "Defending these creatures who are sources of immorality, dangerous diseases, and who have been cursed by God, Western circles are trying to destroy our national traditions under the name of 'human rights.
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"What makes it so successful in these three countries in particular is (1) their record of poor and ineffective governance, (2) their democratic political institutions coupled with presidential elections, and, tentatively (3) perhaps a traditional religious establishment (Catholic, Muslim, or Buddhist) whose moral concerns may help to mobilize outrage against immorality and crime," he writes.
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Even if Republican members can't be swayed by the immorality of the practice, they should look at this situation in terms of preserving their own power: If they let Mr. Trump roll them by using innocent children as hostages, he will learn the lesson that brutality is the key to getting what he wants.
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While some claim that such an approach has prevented terrorist attacks -- indeed, it is another controversial approach to counterterrorism that the President seems to think of value -- it is also clear it has led to false testimony and has wasted considerable military and security resources, not to mention the illegality and immorality of war-on-terror-era torture.
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How the poem further explains the tragic and violent inevitability of Dany's arc on 'Game of Thrones'As we wrote after the "Game of Thrones" series finale, when the murder of Daenerys was revealed as the conclusion of her tragic arc, the story of the Mother of Dragons seems to be an attempt at showing the inherent immorality of war.
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In addition to "child abuse," the complaint also seeks charges of "immorality" for the separations, "racial discrimination" for indicating that the federal government would back away from monitoring troubled police departments, and "Dissemination of doctrines contrary to the standards of doctrine of the United Methodist Church" after Mr. Sessions used the Bible to defend the zero tolerance policy.
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A tale of lust rewarded, of immorality triumphant, it closes with the sublime "Pur ti miro," which here, sung by Rachel Yakar and Eric Tappy and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, is a love duet as much between a woman and her new crown (watch Ms. Yakar's eyes flash in an orgasm of ambition) as between two lovers.
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We must conceive of the country we want and drive relentlessly toward it, not because we are thunderstruck by the sheer immorality that has risen to the pinnacle of power, but because we know that power is in fact a possession of the people in a democracy and we can both harness it and assert it.
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"After conducting a fair and thorough review we found that, while the assignment was certainly not consistent with Great Hearts philosophy, there was no harmful intent on the part of the teacher and the broader context of the treatment of slavery in the course left no ambiguity regarding its immorality," read Kindel's letter, which was obtained by San Antonio Express-News.
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The scourge of ticket bots and the immorality of the shady ticket scalpers using them is conventional wisdom that's so ingrained in the public consciousness and so politically safe that a law to ban ticket bots passed both houses of Congress unanimously late last year, in part thanks to a high-profile public relations campaign spearheaded by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.
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Former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE on Tuesday tweeted a quote about "immorality" after President Trump appeared to throw his support behind GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore.
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Sample lyrics: "Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky / It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy" Whether it's a reflection on the loneliness of a man who's responsible for the reprehensible immorality of his own empire or that we're all now more likely to be turned to dust in nuclear annihilation, this one's on point.
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These revelations recall the immorality of foreign companies — including Lafarge — that prospered by working with the Nazis during World War II. Lafarge now faces a criminal inquiry by the French economy ministry and a lawsuit in France by human rights groups and former employees charging it with war crimes and crimes against humanity for paying the Islamic State for security, safe passage for employees and raw materials.
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Sample lyrics: "Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky / It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy" Whether it's a reflection on the loneliness of a man who's responsible for the reprehensible immorality of his own empire or that we're all now more likely to be turned to dust in nuclear annihilation, this one's on point.
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In a June 18 statement, 18453 signatories invoked paragraph 2702.3 of the United Methodist Book of Discipline to charge Sessions with child abuse, immorality (including "the use of violence against children to deter immigration"), racial discrimination, and the dissemination of false doctrine counter to Methodist teaching — including Sessions's controversial public use of the Bible verse Romans 13 to legitimize the Trump administration's migrant policies.
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Despite the nods to holy scripture (as well as referencing Deuteronomy, Lamar directly quotes a line from James 4:4 on "LUST"), immorality ("Is America honest or do we bask in sin"?) and Satan (lyrics are played in reverse, as though curling backwards from his mouth), DAMN operates on (and also fears) the idea that "what happens on Earth stays on Earth"—a direct opposition to Christian teachings.
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Citing Paragraph 2702.3 of the 2016 United Methodist Book of Discipline, the complaint specifically accuses Sessions of child abuse, immorality, and racial discrimination in connection with his support for an array of Justice Department policies on immigration and other issues, including the detention of immigrant children, the decision to refuse asylum to immigrants fleeing gang or domestic violence, and the attorney general's declared intent to stop investigations into police departments accused of racial discrimination.
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As played through the social-media filter (meaning relevant context sometimes was lost), the interviews showed Mr. Moore saying: 20073) life was better early in American history despite the existence of slavery; 2) American immorality may well make the United States the focus of evil in the modern world; and 3) all constitutional amendments after the 10th — thus including the antislavery amendments and the one giving women the vote — should be repealed.
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It might be libelous to assert the Amazon 'intends to harm,' per the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of evil, but the litany of allegations against Amazon ranging from the individual (the mistreatment of workers, differential pricing to customers), to the market (anti-competitive behavior including the suppression of competitor products), to the social (tax avoidance)—suggest an organization that not only lacks a moral compass but could be well on its way to a state of 'profound immorality'.
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Background Reading: Ross on the officials testifying against Trump Michelle on the battle of public opinion during Watergate, what we still don't know about the Ukraine scandal, Republicans' conspiratorial defenses of Trump and how Trump's corruption has become normalized David on why impeachment is politically risky, how the process is distracting from the issues most Americans care about, the bravery of the public servants publicly testifying against Trump, the immorality of our tipping system and Taylor Swift vs.
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Coons was asked on "Fox News Sunday" whether he agrees with Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiJohnson eyes Irish border in Brexit negotiations Mueller report fades from political conversation Five key players in Trump's trade battles MORE's (D-Calif.) stance that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is "an immorality between countries" that does not warrant funding.
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