My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues.
Being pro-life is a basic perspective of everything I do.
I've never met an evil person ever.
I'm very close to the pro-life movement.
My view is that homosexual acts - not homosexuality, but homosexual acts - are wrong. They're intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural-law-based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that... They don't comport with natural law.
The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.
I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.
I happen to be pro-life.
Each man forms his duty according to his predominant characteristic; the stern require an avenging judge; the gentle, a forgiving father. Just so the pygmies declared that Jove himself was a pygmy.
I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.
Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.
Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
Muslims tend to quote the Koran selectively to support their own ethical views.
This is not terribly different however from Christians and Jews selectively quoting the Bible.
When someone disagrees with you on a moral point you assume that he is one step behind in his thinking, and he assumes that he has gone one step ahead.
My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy