People within a society must be given the dignity to have freedom of personal beliefs. For only through this freedom of personal belief can a society be allowed to call itself just and righteous.

One defensive reply from those who favor legalizing and authorizing torture of military detainees is that those of us who oppose it are preening morally or subject to moral vanity. Unfortunately, when ...

Economic issues are shaping this year's presidential campaign, as we're hearing in this morning's news. Arthur C. Brooks, of the American Enterprise Institute, says that debate involves more than ...

When it came time to vote, their vote was truly informed. They had heard all the arguments, on both sides of the question. An issue about clothing had become a deeply moral question about freedom and ...

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Immunity from obligations or binding precepts and prohibitions. Thus the permission of the moral law to act as one chooses. Moral freedom implies that many human actions are not precisely commanded or ...

Leaving a cult involves much more than the physical act of leaving or formally resigning membership. It can be a highly emotional and psychological reawakening that can shake the crux of a person’s ...