So it seems more like a change in permissiveness norms rather than an overall increase or decrease in the permissiveness of sexual-orientation-related speech. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Anyone who wants to stick with the tradition is accused of being a biblical literalist or a homophobic racist, because, in part, of the more fundamental change in our society towards permissiveness, that is, easy divorce, cohabitation and concubinage, abortion, pornography … and euthanasia. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Because the ill tempered youth are as much a product of that kind of permissiveness as anything liberals teach. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Adopted by anti-government hucksters, empire-seekers and profligate free-marketeers, they divided the nation with a 'God and Country' ethos that declared the Bible inerrant, reviled homosexuality, "permissiveness," liberalism and critical thinking, denied women equal rights, children any at all, and cowed the media into submission. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The "permissiveness" or indifference of the ruler of the universe grows amazingly. ❋ Joseph McCabe (1911)
Actually, this characterization flows from the persistent conservative attack on the '60s generation as the product of supposed Spockian "permissiveness," based on our opposition to an unjust war and our engagement with mass movements against segregation, racism, sexism, poverty and homophobia and appropriately enough our support for the movement against ageism. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Worse, advocates of 'permissiveness' such as Leary openly recommended the use of mind-altering drugs as a means to access a different, supposedly better, reality. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nixon worried that greater access to abortions would foster "permissiveness," and said that ❋ Unknown (2009)
Just-released tapes from President Nixon's time in the White House reveal that he feared legal abortion would lead to "permissiveness" but that he felt that it was justified in some cases -- in the case of rape, but also when you have "a black and a white," the New York Times reports. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I know one such expert who firmly supported "permissiveness" so as not to hinder the child's personality. ❋ Unknown (2009)
OSO may also be seen as a visual iconography with sexual meanings, operating in a pleasure economy, and being an icon of 'permissiveness'. ❋ Unknown (2009)
