For all of my adult life, I have avoided the use of the word ‘moral.’ Morality seemed to be the territory of religious institutions, steeped in righteousness, enlarged in its own zeal and influence, like the deity depicted as a vengeful force on the ceiling of Sistine Chapel, all omniscience and thunderbolts. Progressive liberals have enthusiastically eschewed morality as a tool of doctrinal control, considered the application of moral standards too narrow to allow for divers