we've moralized things. i'd like to propose that we moralize two things. one is demonization. when you have people saying, you can disagree as much as you want, but when you start saying, "they're only saying that because they're, you know, they're a racist or they're in bed with this company," or, and even though sometimes that might be true. but we are so prone to dismiss other people and demonize their motives that we're usually going to be wrong about that. so if we could begin to see this in each other and even challenge each other and say, "hey, you're demonizing." like, just, you know, disagree with them but stop attributing bad motives to the other side. so if ten years from now people sort of recognize that and could call each other out on in, that would at least be some progress. the other one is corruption. until we develop a massive groundswell of public revulsion at the fact that our congress is bought and paid for, not entirely of course. many of them are decent people. i don't want to demonize. i'm sorry. but the nature of the institution is such that they've go

morality matters. and one of the great things about america is that our foundational myths have indeed been capacious enough to accommodate the expansion of democracy. they've been adaptable enough to adapt themselves to new challenges. and obviously morality matters, too. and yet, i would argue that all of these are under assault as they never quite have been in the past by the overweaning dominance of a commerce, of commercial values, of money. so you have the myth of equal justice under law, of social mobility, of equal participation, of community. these are not only cherished myths, but they are cherished realities. they are what make a society a place where one would want to live and raise one's children. all of these realities or myths are being undermined by the market. and it's interesting, i was thinking as i was listening to my two co-panelists, you can do this according to marx. all that is solid melts into air. you can do it according to conservatives, like edmond burke. you can do it accor

what's a moral conviction? where does a moral conviction come from? i have moral convictions. you have moral convictions. we have different moral convictions. and let me repeat, any employer can do this. any insurer can do it based on a vague abstraction called moral conviction. what would this mean? yes. does it mean that women could -- if you have a moral conviction that you want to have children that you know you can care for and afford, you have a moral conviction that you want to have access to birth control. if you have a belief that you need to have the health care you need based on what learned scientists say are an essential benefit you should. under the blunt amendment if an employer has a conviction against smoking, they can refuse treatments for lung cancer or emphysema. if an employer says, i don't approve of drinking and i refuse to cover any treatment program for alcoholism or substance abuse, they could do it. there could be an employer who has a moral conviction against blood transfusions and refuse to cover that. it puts the personal opinions of employers ove

[applause] >> robert will not defend moralities rule -- morality possible. >> thank you.e.ality's >> thank you. i would say, obviously, bob got the easy one. [laughter] obviously, i am a republican and will not say that money does not play a role in society. but i would say that all three overlappinglay significant roles in day-to-day politics. however, morality and mamyth are two sides of the same coin, if i can use that phrase. when i think of morality, i think not just that of the judeo-christian principles, which certainly have had and continue to have a major influence within our society. i think of a specific overarching and more unique american morality. that is actually something that comes from the founding document. obviously, the united states was founded partly by pilgrims coming here for freedom from the church of england. within the founding of the united states, at least in some of the people coming year, there is an element of religion, an element of morality, an element of people wishing to worship within their own way. however, it is really within the co

i had a moral conviction. i had a moral conviction that if you are a victim of domestic violence, you shouldn't be denied health care. i had a real strong moral conviction about that. then during my hearing, i heard a bone-chilling story. it wasn't just me, those who attended. there was a woman who testified that she had a medically mandated c-section. then she was told by her insurance company in writing that she had to get sterilized in order to receive health insurance from them. the insurance company was mandating sterilizeization to get coverage. i nearly went off my chair. at that hearing there was a representative of the insurance company. they had no moral reaction to that. they had no moral reaction to that. i had a reaction. i had a really big one. that's why we offered the amendments that we did, where you could not deny health care on the basis of preexisting conditions. so i have a lot of moral convictions around this. that in the united states of america, no child should die because of the absenc

chris: people that have moral concerns about it, when asked about it, they may have moral concerns and they probably do because i take people at their word with you also we have a new statistic from an institute which everyone believes is quite credible, 40% of people who have unwanted pregnancies have abortions. so even though they have qualms and concerns they go ahead in many cases and have an abortion. >> moral certainty is very difficult and perm. and we've reached the point in this country where not often enough do we have tolerance for people's personal decisions when faced with remarkable challengeless. we each have to respond to it in our own personal way and joe's column moved me. look, whatever you think of rick santorum and his family, what they have done with this child, since the child was born, how they've treated this child and how he speaks about the child is moving. but again, it's about tolerance for other people's points of view and what they're going through when they're faced with do i or don't i on any difficult call. chris: it's also that people have a greater a

no less valuable are the morale and friendly relations being generated between servicemen of all theint training programs, demonstrating their respective skills to each other, they cross the language barrier to comradeship. this banding together by nations with a common purpose has produced strength not only in the military and economic fields but in the moral and spiritual values as well. at a meeting of the nato atlantic congress in 1959, a statement was adopted which called attention to the moral unity binding the member nations. this document recognizes respect for human dignity as the inalienable basis of civilization. among the fundamental rights of man, specifically named are respect for the sanctity of human life, the right to freedom of speech, of conscience and religion, of opinion and belief, the right of every man to work and to receive his just reward, the right of the family to stability and the right of parents over their children and their education. in all these ways economically, militarily, morally, the world outside the communist orbit slowly draws itself together

the strands of moral toughness with which our history is bound.which made men work instead of weep on the hostile shores of new england. which bled mortally yet never died on fields stretching out from valley forge. which moved strong men west, bringing with them first only their pride, then their railroads. which built cities and governments. ♪ across the sea ♪ >> and created wealth. made freedom the birthright of every man. that quality must still live within us or without it we are surely lost. and faith in our past. this is the challenge. as compelling as severe, as crucial as americans in any age have ever faced. ♪ glory glory hallelujah

it was germany's first ever present is to set the moral tone as the office. for years, german president's followed in his footsteps, even if they were not quite as flamboyant. heinemann was the first social democrat to hold the post. shield became the second president put forth. it was only in the 1980's that a german president once again played a prominent role on the political stage. the first president of a united germany. "we want to serve global peace in a united europe. -- europe." after unification celebrations were over, he succeeded in winning the trust of germany's neighbors. his subsequent dollar has a shadow over presidency, but he managed to resist calls for his resignation. wulff was a close ally of chancellor merkel. some say he is the post as a weapon of power in politics, some say to the detriment of the post. germany hopes his successor can restore faith and integrity to the country's highest office. >> and the story goes on. that wraps up this edition of the "journal." captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

that's what it does. >> why does it say religious or moral? a secular morality.umanist point of view. is that okay with you as an opportunity to opt out on this? >> it's religious or moral beliefs, but they're going to have to demonstrate that under reasonable criteria. back to the point on contraception, this is not about not having contraception available to women that want it. that's certainly there. they can either get a rider on the policy to provide it or they can certainly get it from county social services if their income situation is a concern. it's not a contraception issue but a religious freedom issue. >> if a woman is working for domino's pizza or comcast or general motors would like to have insurance coverage which includes birth control free without a co-pay and her boss says no because he says i'm against that morally, do you think that's okay? because the boss says so. >> again, there's got to be reasonable criteria, and that's exactly what we're talking about. furthermore, it's not about access to contraception. that's getting confusing. that's

, and officer morales caught him. >> the baby's safe. a border policeman maces the suspect who keeps going. >> there was a mob of people and they all just waited for him. so he wasn't going to go anywhere. >> price is tackled by the mexican police. >> they got him, captured him going across the border. >> morales hands the child to charmaine rodriguez waiting nearby to rush the baby to safety. >> i grabbed the baby, and i ran into the building. >> fortunately, the toddler is unharmed. officials are stunned to learn the baby is eddie price's own son justin. >> what a terrible situation. this was going to cause a little baby to be without a father and certainly things weren't going to go well for his father. >> things go badly indeed for the father who winds up with a six-year prison term for burglary, evading arrest and child endangerment. >> we were just there, and we did what we had to do. >> for the border police whose crucial decisions and split-second timing were carried out in front of multiple cameras, it's an event they'll never f

legislation that would ban any group that had just a quote moral objection not just a religious group but just to any group that had a moral objection to that would would you be willing to push that in the. yeah you know if we end up having to try to overcome the president's opposition by legislation of course i'd be happy to support it. all right so not just you know it religious organization the catholic church doesn't have to do it but now if any organization of the boss morally objects to something he doesn't have to provide you with insurance that's crazy i think. the real compromise here the real ideal thing the thing on which we can all agree is that health insurance should not be tethered to employment and that is that that is the absolute worst way to go about it because if you get fired from the job if you get laid off you can't bring that insurance with you so it also destroys the price was going to be around you need to state your case on health care well no i mean way no but the important thing i mean i do have i do know that it's coming out with some guy that you know sh

everything is a moral issue and what the government is about is trying to find that moral consensus that they can work with and i just wanted the important key party movement that's been so spectacularly successful in some ways changing the direction of the country to hear the different point of view. >> how would you judge the health of the tea party today? >> sometimes i wonder. 2010 was a spectacular showing and i don't think anyone would dispute the tea party movement made its presence felt at that election and my gut tells me that for a lot of the tea party activists maybe they thought their job was finished after the election and they went home and figured we've taken care of business because we have elected to the right people. i think there is a little bit of a temptation along the the new activists to think it's all about elections but that's where the work begins because then you have the issue of holding your e with the officials accountable will figure in office that is a much bigger job and it never ends. >> how many books have you written and what is your next one about? >>

last week, president obama announced revisions saying that religion related organizations with moral objections would not have to offer or pay for birth control. instead, insurance companies would have to provide those services to women free of charge. some catholic leaders supported the change, but others, including the us conference of catholic bishops, said it did not adequately address their concerns. the bishops' opposition is being led by new york's archbishop timothy dolan. >>> dolan is in rome this weekend being elevated to cardinal, along with another american, baltimore's archbishop edwin o'brien. dozens of churches in new york city are citing religious liberty concerns in their battle to be allowed to worshipn public school buildings after hours. the new york city board of education had said last sunday was the final day congregations could rent school space for services. on thursday, a district judge gave the churches a ten-day extension. as a court challenge moves forward, the state legislature is considering a bill to overturn the policy. kim lawton has more. >> reporte

firefighter down. >> fellow firefighters drag morales to safety., his injuries are considered minor. >> i was knocked unconscious, had a head concussion. >> morales is lucky. sadly, the fire claims the life of the woman trapped inside. >> she tried to come out of the room and she obviously couldn't make it because the fire and smoke caught up to her. >> it's not until alan bell is able to catch his breath that he remembers he's wearing a camera on his helmet. >> once you settle down and all your adrenaline's over, then is when i realized i think i was filming all this. >> the first time i watched it, it was scary, you know, because you see yourself going through this. this is not a good experience. >> both firefighters hope others can learn from the video captured by alan bell's helmet camera. >> my primary goal of the video was to use for training. and that we all should train for the highest level possible. you can see what happens. it's all on camera. >> mayday. firefighter down. >> coming up, h2 -- whoa! >> all of a sudden i feel the blast of w

. >> muchos en bolivia consideran que el presidente evo morales estÁ entre la espada y la pared por laon indiferencia la poblaciÓn de la paz recibiÓ al consejo nacional del sur que llegÓ a esta ciudad exigiendo al gobierno la construcciÓn de una carretera que atraviese por el corazÓn de la reserva natural. si son estas las dos visiones tan distintas, una que limitÓ la construcciÓn de las vÍas con la promulgaciÓn de una ley por el presidente evo morales luego de un avance que llegÓ a la paz en 2011 y la otra que marchÓ y ahora plantea su derogaciÓn. >> no volveremos con las manos vacÍas. >> por su parte, la dirigencia de la confederaciÓn de pueblos indÍgenas de bolivia que encabezÓ la movilización el pasado aÑo asegurÓ que los marchistas que llegaron a la sede del gobierno no son parte de la tierra comunitaria. >> porque no son parte de la tierra, son propietarios individuales de la zona colonizada. entonces, no pueden ellos decidir sobre un territorio que no es de ellos. >> el presidente morales que se solidarizÓ con la marcha del conisur y el poder legislativo deslindaron responsabili

. >> a toughness of moral fiber.s us to see the right as lincoln put it in words which are carved into our national soul. these are the th >> keeping america strong. this is our challenge. keeping the vision of liberty bright. keeping the reat the strands of

moral guilt is ineffect guilt before god, and finally, metaphysical guilt. metaphysical guilt applies to a person with no physical, criminal, or moral guilt. in other words, it applied to him. metaphysical guilt applies 20 anyone who belongs to a society or a state that is guilty of mass atrocities simply by a virtue of being part of the same community which carried out the atrocities, and it reflects the failure to prevent it, the failure to have foreseen it, the failure to have intervened at critical moments, even at the loss of one's life. it's notable, and i think it needs to be acknowledged, that germany has acknowledged its metaphysical guilt was atrocities of the nazi era. i remember in st. petersberg running into on the anniversary of the victory, may 9th, young german kids with roses, which they were looking for soviet war veterans who were parading with their medals, and handing them these roses. of course, the war veterans were very moved and put their arms out and hugged the young kids. young kids were not guilty of anything. they were born after

yet the outcome was sort of unarguably good and moral. you know, partly -- perhaps in fact, because not enough blacks do study the civil war and because of political whitewashing and the focus of the meaning of the war, and the tragedy or not over the nobleness of the lost cause gets lost. and he draws valuable attention to that. >> we have been talking about the atlantic's special commemorative issue on the civil war. how can people get this edition? >> thank you for asking. you can go to our website and find a link to order a copy of the magazine. we'll very happily send it to you to you. theatlantic.com. and buy it on kindle or ipad, you can download it. you can find individual pieces from our issue on the website. >> altaie lore, who does our in focus blog, three collections of images from civil war that go beyond that and really striking powerful images. >> scott stossel and james bennett, editor of the atlantic, thank you for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> just a reminder, we'll have a link to the atlantic civil war issue at o

so it's as a moral voice that douglass has a place. he had been giving the country a narrative and argue, an almost infinite supply of metaphors through which to try to imagine the recreation of an american republic rooted in the destruction of slavery and the transformation of the constitution. one of the great facts or even ironies of frederick douglass' life, important 1818, dies 1895, if you look at the trajectory of his life, he's in his mid-40s during the civil war. he lives to see the triumph to use your word, the triumph of the cause he had spent his adult life arguing for but probably never believing he would see that triumph. but he then also lives another 30 years. he didn't die till he was 77. he lives another 30 years to see the virtual betrayal of that triumphant cause. so there's a trajectory to douglass' life, call it moral, call it temporal, call it whatever you want, that is fascinating. his relationships, of course, with lincoln and grant were very complex. he met lincoln three times as i just said earlier here in th

the root way to do that is morality. moral people obviously don't rape, pilfer, steal. >> right here, the midst of angola, i have seen change. because the seed of the favor of god on your life. >> warden cain's approach to morality works on two levels. one, spiritual and religious. the other, engaging employment opportunities. church is optional. work is not. >> i've been editing really for about a month now. and been with lsp productions for about nine months. >> perhaps the most unusual example of innovation at angola is the tv station. the only big house production company in the united states. >> one, two, three. one, two, three. >> before we do a shoot, we have to kind of step back and kind of ask, if an outside company was doing it, what would they ask? >> choose your behavior, choose your consequence. i chose angola by the lifestyle i was living. i'm not going to lay down, just roll over. i want my life to mean something. and it can, even though that i'm in prison. >> every member of the tv station but one is serv

e women morally unjust? they not good catholics because they need to have a family they can control? if you can have birth control, that is almost securing a certain amount of women into poverty forever. >> absolutely correct. >> please. >> can i add one thing. >> yes, and then i want to get to father bill. >> when father daley talks about forcing catholic institutions to provide birth control, he's talking about the institutions, not the woman. no one is going to force a catholic woman to take birth control. we're talking about women who are choosing, whether they are catholic or not, to say i need this service. >> right. >> you're talking about institutional power that's being denied, not personal religious freedom. >> father bill, there's a lot of 0iously to respond to. respond to one specific thing which is -- two specific thingsp this one is the argument that is made, to me it's quite compelling that it's a little hard in a moral secular conversation about a policy choice in civic society to listen to t

moralities of the day. while it is true that the abolitionists were infused with religious passion, there were also those who looked to the bible to defenslavery. ultimaly, after the civil war, you saw through the 13th, 14th, and 50 amendment -- you ultimately saw that the declaration's assessment of morality actually becoming law. even today while the current discussion over gay marriage -- even some conservates have come to recognize that because the debate on gay marriage is argued under the rubric of marriage equality, ma ofhese conservatives realize that given what they have seen in the context of history, they are on the losing side. once an argument and of becoming a question of equality under the law, the traditional myth, the traditional religion ends up having to surrender the ground. >> e.j., you stated perfectly, the sentiments in the founding documents at the time were aspirational. they were not descriptive of reality, but they were broad enough so that wcould grow into the founding sentiments

i think people do make the moral distinction that jim talked about. that's between those who make all of their income from finance and those who make their income from invention, creation and the like. and i think that we take a specific step such as the ways in which we tax capital gains as opposed to income, to really say that as a society, we seem to prefer finance. i mean, i know the argument for it is this creates a more productive system. i have not seen our economy do exceptionally well since we cut the capital gains tax. i don't intend that's causation, but it's certainly not proof that this was the guarantee of a more productive economy. i think that is kind of upside lying sort of question that i think is why the occupy wall street people seemed to get some initial purchase on the country. there is a sense that not all of this wealth was acquired by doing things that the society itself sees as genuinely productive. now, i can see sometimes this side is wrong about that. sometimes i'm wrong about that. but i think there is a sense of injustic

and we know that in that sector, i think the profits that people make have very little claim morally to our approbation. if you could just tax them, the people in that field, that part of the 1% everyone would be happy. but gee, that's not the whole 1%. speak about this, the progressives always mention that. the places where you can see there's no connection between performance and reward. but most of the 1%, there is a connection between performance and reward. what do we do? like abraham, how many, lord, do we do away with before we save the city? i say take a broader look. and i speak with my students. they always, when they make this argument about the 1%, they always mention first finance, which no one understands anyhow. they mention crony capitalism. then they mention, now we can go back, mention less often, the pharmaceuticals, the oil companies. what's financial and what's nasty. but then you say to them, oh, steve jobs, lebron james. and all of a sudden they say everything is perfectly just. that person should be getting more. or bill gates. what does everyone young person

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seeing evidently what the president's moral codes and principles are about.see a president who is systematically trying to crush the traditional judeo-christian principles in this country. i mean, you -- you saw it. you saw it with obama care and the implementation of obama care where his values are going to be imposed on a church's values. >> well, there you have it. fresh news. the president is guilty of crushing traditional christianity and jewish values and principles. he's crushing them. he is doing that. he is bringing forward his theology of four years ago right into the public square right into his campaign. he is not being squeamish. >> no, he's not. look, you can disagree with him all day long. i give anyone props who is willing to go out there in the context of running for office to put that -- put their faith alongside of that effort. i'm not going to begrudge him that. you can argue around the edges about whether you agree or disagree. let me finish my point. you can't criticize -- you can criticize me on my policies. you can't criticize me on my

what is missing is the moral confidence to say we are willing to risk a judgment. you know, as reporting was terrible, they did not report a big part of glenn beck's following -- he has a following and supports oath keepers where cops and military members sign an oath not to, you know, not to carry out unconstitutional orders when obama institutes martial law. we have something that is different here. i would say you don't want to falsely align the organization which got us into vietnam. there is something missing here that we don't have. i think we feel that loss profoundly because our elites are very morally unaccountable to each other now a days. >> michael. >> the thing is nobody cares what "time" thinks about glenn beck. they cared in 1961. other people were exposing back mostly web sites, certainly. just a very short anecdote about that. politico asked me to evaluate glenn beck's view of history. they wrote a long article. they tried to get balance, too. even conservative historians will not defend glenn beck. politico was not my idea of the next "new york ti

issue and the appropriate amount of compassion in order to actually resolve it because it was the moral outrage which i channel myself for years is understandable and rewarding for your ego and not useful and so to answer your question i think we have to understand that entire corporate media the business is predicated on your ability to accumulate attention the more attention you can accumulate the more ads you can sell the more money you can make the things that most easily attract attention are these debates or these realizations of uncertain outcomes so when i have a horse race i don't know who's going to win and if i make the horse race seem really interesting then i can get a lot of ratings because it's like picking giants patriots who do things going to win the league may not be a football fan but if the competition gets interesting enough you'll watch that's good for ratings it's atrocious for the debate the bet that i am making and. the one thing that i think you should think about we all need to think in the context of our demonization of a given media organization or apparatu