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The idea that some men of God might regard their commitment to a woman housing a fetus as more important than their commitment to the fetus itself is anathema to people like Lee.
Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.
Exposure--of ignorance, of soft pink feet in a classroom of callused soles--is anathema.
The WP is good on the particular politics of Clinton's Social Security proposals, saying that it is classically Clintonesque in that it preserves the program's size but only by accepting something that was anathema to earlier Democrats--partial privatization.
As TBTF's host--not exactly a naive reader--put it, "These ideas were anathema to mainstream economists in 1984 when Arthur first tried to publish them."