Republicans will even vote for an opponent of free trade and of the postwar western alliance who grossly offends against conservative Christian sexual mores, if that's who is at the top of their ticket.
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Beaupré, 1971, British Columbia Supreme Court. Held: "the phrase 'indecent act' connotes something more active, with greater moral turpitude than the mere state of being nude in a public place." Also, streaking is similarly not regarded as indecent.R v Springer, 1975, Saskatchewan District CourtR v Niman, 1974, Ontario Provincial Court Section 174 prohibits nudity if it offends "against public decency or order" and in view of the public.
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Oren Ben-Dor wrote in CounterPunch in 2008 "I am firmly convinced that these vulgar attempts at silencing of Gilad and other courageous voices offends against supremely thoughtful, compassionate and egalitarian intellectual endeavours".Oren Ben-Dor, 'The Silencing of Gilad Atzmon', CounterPunch, 15 March 2008. In 2009, Atzmon said "I've got nothing against the Semite people, I don't have anything against people — I'm anti- Jewish, not anti-Jews".Gibson, Martin.
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In constitutional law "judicial review" usually means the power of the courts to scrutinise and declare unconstitutional any type of legislation, original or delegated, or state conduct that infringes on rights in the Bill of Rights (such as the right to equality or the right to privacy) or otherwise offends against provisions of the Constitution. As a result of the constitutionalisation of administrative law, review in the administrative- law sense is now largely a species of constitutional review.
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By injuring man's relation to truth and to his neighbor, a lie offends against the fundamental relation of man and of his word to the Lord. Lying is a mortal sin when it does grave injury to the virtues of justice and charity. Lying is a profanation of speech, whereas the purpose of speech is to communicate known truth to others. The deliberate intention of leading a neighbor into error by saying things contrary to the truth constitutes a failure in justice and charity.
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Eventually, the customs department of the time stopped consulting this committee entirely. In 1960 the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov was banned by the Supreme Court under this act. This decision was made based on an interpretation of the clause "unduly emphasizing matters of sex" as meaning "dealing with matters of sex in a manner which offends against the standards of the community in which the article is published". Eventually, the book was judged to be indecent on the basis that it "would have a tendency to corrupt or deprave a class of readers not negligible in number", despite its literary merit.
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The magisterium of the Catholic Church interprets Matthew 5:27–28 to mean that since the purpose of pornography is to create lust, it is sinful, because lusting is equivalent to adultery. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church explains: > Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the > intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third > parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, > the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the > dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one > becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others.
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Article 97 provides for the inviolability of fundamental human rights. Article 98 provides that the constitution takes precedence over any "law, ordinance, imperial rescript or other act of government" that offends against its provisions, and that "the treaties concluded by Japan and established laws of nations shall be faithfully observed". In most nations it is for the legislature to determine to what extent, if at all, treaties concluded by the state will be reflected in its domestic law; under Article 98, however, international law and the treaties Japan has ratified automatically form a part of domestic law. Article 99 binds the Emperor and public officials to observe the constitution.
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190–92 Together with some other material, it was issued by an unknown publisher under the title HIGH NEWS FOR HIERUSALEM (no date). It exasperated one reader, who complained ‘truly I skill not the man, nor his spirit; in his writing he offends against all rules of Grammar, Geography, Genealogy, History, Chronology, Theology & c, so far as I understand them’.Sheffield University Library, Hartlib Papers, 34/4/11A–12B In March 1654 a list of some thirty ‘Grand Blasphemers and Blasphemies’ was submitted to the Committee for Religion, which included: > XIX. A Goldsmith that did live in the Strand, and after in the City, and > then at Eltham; who called his name Theaurau John Tany, the High Priest, & > c.
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Most world religions have positions in opposition to pornography from a variety of rationales, including concerns about modesty, human dignity, chastity and other virtues. There are numerous verses in the Bible which are cited as condemning pornography or adultery, notably for Christians, Matthew 5:28 in the Sermon on the Mount which states "that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart." The Catechism of the Catholic Church explicitly condemns pornography because it "offends against chastity" and "does grave injury to the dignity of its participants" since "each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others". Islam also forbids adultery, and various verses of the Quran have been cited as condemning pornography, including Quran 24:31 which tells men to "restrain their eyes" from looking sexually at women.
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The Constituent Assembly of India debated on freedom of speech and expression (Article 19(1) of the Draft Constitution,1948) on 1 December 1948, 2 December 1948 and 17 October 1949. The draft article read: 'Subject to the other provisions of this article, all citizens shall have the right – (a) to freedom of speech and expression; … Proviso: Nothing in sub- clause (a) of clause (1) of this article shall affect the operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any law, relating to libel, slander, defamation, sedition or any other matter which offends against decency or morality or undermines the security of, or tends to overthrow, the State.' Most members of the Constituent Assembly welcomed the inclusion of the right. However, conflict emerged around the provision in the Article that placed restrictions on the right: while some members opposed the mention of restrictions on the right, others supported it.
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