11.   Our European allies can no longer be encouraged to draw moral distinctions between the federal and state governments, as they could during the civil rights era.

12.   Some will protest that there is a moral distinction here.

13.   The moral distinction may be lost to most people.

14.   This implicit moral distinction has sparked the principal criticism of the initiative, from the Maine Civil Liberties Union.

15.   We have become so unfamiliar with making moral judgments that we seem no longer able to make moral distinctions.