James H. Toner, 1995

In "True Faith and Allegiance: The Burden of Military Ethics", page 77, Toner says:

"If there is no purpose to life and if there is no meaning except what pleases me, ethics has not functions; it is a shallow, pedantic exercise, and its conclusions must be mere emotivism."

Now, while he misses the "and", I think this counts. He is arguing against moral relativism, and probably arguing for the existance of God as a foundation of ethics. He later describes America as having "Moral Autism". From the christian conservative perspective, his use of shallow and pedantic is quite correct, but from a secular viewpoint, it's somewhat less so.