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Prisons at risk of breakdown
The calls for the prison population to be reduced will soon be answered. The prison service budget will be subject to cuts of between 25 and 40 per cent. The number of prison places will have to be reduced, as prisons will be closed and thousands of prison officers will be made redundant.
Will the probation service and community service programmes be protected from budget cuts? There will be large number of newly released prisoners and convicted criminals with no prison place available.
In the past, at times of high unemployment, welfare benefits were either maintained or increased. The Government is promising to reduce benefits by £11bn. Historically hard economic times have brought an increase in crime. Will Kenneth Clarke be able to keep his part of the criminal justice system working? If crime increases and the budget cuts make it impossible for the criminal justice system to cope, look for a new justice minister at the first reshuffle next year.
George D Lewis, Brackley, Northamptonshire
Can we still afford the Lottery?
With the Coalition seeking relatively painless ways of shrinking the state and reducing public spending, I wonder if they will be brave enough to swing the axe in one obvious area of national excess, the National Lottery?
As an instrument of Conservative Party policy in the early 1990s, the lottery was a perfect product of its time, redistributing money largely from the lower socio-economic groups (addicted players) to the middle (arts and sports beneficiaries from the so-called good causes). But it is time to ask awkward questions: can it be right for there to be a state gambling monopoly, the only form of gambling made available in shopping centres, newsagents and supermarkets, and legally available to children over 15?
The National Lottery can be abolished as easily at it was introduced. This would put millions of pounds a week back in the pockets of ordinary citizens, now freed from the fear of "their" numbers being drawn on a day when they had forgotten to buy a ticket. Adults who want to gamble can choose to do so in a properly regulated environment designed for people over 18. Their stakes will still benefit "good causes": gambling companies are fairly taxed on their profits.
Steve Hickman, Eye, Suffolk
Politics without compassion
Oh dear, another example of clever thinking that overlooks the heart, and from a female journalist too. Has Mary Ann Sieghart (Opinion, 27 September) any experience of what it is like to be on incapacity benefit for genuine reasons, or someone (the vast majority of whom are single parents) struggling to raise their family with the assistance of housing benefit, threatened with moving away from family and friends or the terrifying prospect of becoming homeless?
I have experience through friends and family of people in both these situations, which the Coalition is so breezily set on attacking.
Take compassion out of politics and you have a pretty ugly result. And that is where we are heading.
Mora McIntyre, Hove
Make the poor pay
I judge politicians by their actions rather than their promises. Making cuts to public services and freezing pay while failing to garner the extra revenue that would come from a revaluation of council tax tells me what the Conservative-Liberal government is really about: not sharing the pain but protecting the better-off at the expense of the poor.
Quentin Deakin, Bingley, West Yorkshire
Beware strikes
I think the Government is cutting the deficit too fast and risks putting our economy back into recession. However, I have just been caught up in the chaos caused by people desperately getting on to flights to avoid an imminent general strike in Spain. If our public sector unions call such strikes to oppose government cuts, then support for those unions will evaporate.
Valerie Crews, Beckenham, Kent
Labour under Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband's conference speech stressed the importance of "this generation" – his generation – on 15 occasions, no less.
This sadly can be construed as the politics of exclusion rather than inclusion. Those who teach know that within every generation there are those who are alive to new ideas and those who are not.
There is most certainly a need for new focus in Labour's strategies, but also the need for a "family" made up of the dynamic, creative members of all generations.
Professor Doug Clelland, Liverpool
Although I agree with Ed Miliband that the Iraq war was wrong, it is easy for him to score political points on this. If he had been in Parliament at the time does he expect us to believe that he would have defied his party and voted against the war, and ended his career before it began?
On the deficit, at the election Labour were calling for cuts of £73bn. Yet they disparage the Coalition for cuts of £113bn. It seems likely now that Labour will row back from its election promises of cutting the deficit for something far more cautious – at a time when the IMF says the Coalition's plans are on the right track. The Labour Party needs to have a credible alternative to the Coalition Government's planned spending cuts.
John Boylan, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Andrew Grice's report "Caught unawares, David Miliband finally makes true feelings known" (29 September) reminds me of my first-class colonial education in Uganda where I was grilled in the works of William Shakespeare, who wrote in Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries."
David Miliband omitted to take the high tide under Gordon Brown in June 2009 when his friend James Purnell resigned from the Cabinet and called on Mr Brown to step aside because his leadership made a Tory victory "more, not less likely". Mr Miliband should have taken the flood, resigned and forced Mr Brown to step down, making way for his own ride to fortune as the new Labour leader.
Sam Akaki, London W3
I wholeheartedly agree with Chris Lilley (letter, 29 September). I, too, left the Labour Party: after 30 years of support and a short period of euphoria (1997), I found the move to the right unbearable. Many of my friends (teachers, doctors – the middle-England chattering classes) did likewise.
I would love to vote Labour again and would do so if they demonstrate that they are motivated by principle. Let's hope that Ed Miliband will do it.
Christina Jones, Retford, Nottinghamshire
Ed Miliband won because of the union vote in his favour, it is said.
Well, that is part of the explanation; but the full explanation is that he won because of the votes of the MPs, party members and union members – compared with the votes for David Miliband. Had David secured a few more votes from any of the sections, he would have won because of the combination of votes from the three sections.
To focus on one section, when all three were vital for the win, manifests a political agenda.
Peter Cave, London W1
The selection of Miliband Minor opens up some interesting possibilities in five years if he keeps to his stated intentions.
At that time we could have a progressive left-of-centre government in Britain while in the US there could be a regime of right-wing extremists led by Sarah Palin. Such a coincidence should lead to the ending of this idiotic "special relationship" so loved by some sections of the media. This relationship has brought Britain a string of disasters: two wars, the deaths of too many British soldiers, banks collapsing, the credit crunch, economic disaster and now savage austerity to get us out of this mess. Has this relationship brought us any benefits?
Jim Wright, Calne, Wiltshire
In Tuesday's Viewspaper we read that "Gossiping glossies are rot off the press", while, on a news page, your man in Manchester gossips on why Louise Shackleton, partner of David Miliband, "may have been crying". I think what's important is that we now have a Labour leader speaking about the injustice of the massive income gap and the role of trade unions in reducing it.
Jane Thomas, Lewes CLP delegate, Manchester
Ed Miliband considers the Iraq war to have been a mistake. This is not enough – he must tell the people of this country whether or not he considers the attack on Iraq a crime.
If he thinks that it was not a crime, he must explain how, despite being a mistake, it was nevertheless legal, and if he thinks that it was a crime, then he must make a commitment to bring to justice those who were responsible.
Nick Wray, Derby
After seeing Britain dragged in the wrong direction for so many years, I suppose it is gratifying to hear Ed Miliband admitting that the Labour government fouled up in so many key areas, including Iraq and civil liberties.
But this prompts a number of questions. If they were so wrong so often – and God knows we told them at the time – why did they do it? Why did their MPs, and the rest of the party, support them? What guarantee is there that they won't go off the rails again?
Tony Cantlay, London SE1
The language of youth
Emma Thompson told pupils at her old school, Camden School for Girls, that using "teen speak" made them sound stupid (report, 28 September). Some time ago I could not help but overhear a conversation among a group of teenage boys about football.
Their grammar was appalling and the narrowness of their vocabulary was stunning. Take away "like" and "fucking" and there was little else left. I was just beginning to conclude that the special needs department at their school had not done a great job when the topic of conversation turned to what they were going to study at "uni" the following year.
Ms Thompson comments on the need of modern teenagers to have two types of English, one for use among themselves and one for more official occasions. The pupils at Camden School will have that ability to switch languages. Many teenagers do not. If the boys on the bus cannot make the switch I fear that they will be at a disadvantage in later life whether or not they have been to "uni".
"When like Derby and Disraeli formed their minority government they must have been like oh my god we must pass a reform bill or like we'll lose the next election."
Am I right to be irritated by this sort of language, or would you advise me, as you advised Ms Thompson in your leading article, to "chill"?
Stephen Shaw, Nottingham
Could someone quietly explain to Glottal-Stop Ed Miliband that Hampstead Mockney sounds as phoney to those of us who live outside the M25 as the mid-Atlantic "regular guy" from Fettes did five years ago?
David Burton, Wellington, Telford
Bright students who miss out
Anecdotal evidence from friends and relations off to university this year (or not) suggests that one of the reasons why some "high fliers" have been usurped by less well qualified candidates is that they are not receiving very good advice about their second-choice offers.
Under the current system of Ucas applications, students apply to up to five institutions and, regardless of how many conditional offers they are made, may accept only two. Common sense dictates that to apply only to universities and courses demanding the highest grades and then to accept two offers very close together such as three As and two As and a B is to tempt fate.
Unfortunately some high-achieving schools and parents, and their equally ambitious offspring, failing to entertain the idea that they might not obtain the grades predicted, refuse to consider anything other than Russell Group universities. Where this happens, the pupil who "narrowly misses" their predicted three As will suffer. The judicious student, perhaps from a less well known school, who has hedged their bets and accepted one lower offer from somewhere out of the top 30 is probably strolling down to the student union as I write.
Kathy Moyse, Cobham, Surrey
Ammunition for bigots
Joe Grice's letter (28 September) implies that the methodology adopted by the Office for National Statistics sidesteps the problem of under-reporting among gay and lesbian people, even while admitting that the survey "asks a question on a respondent's self-perceived sexual identity rather than looking to measure the wider concept of sexual orientation".
Given that this survey relies on self-reporting, any related headlines should read not "Just 1.5 per cent of Britons are gay, says pioneering survey" (24 September), but rather "Just 1.5 per cent of Britons admit to being gay to a complete stranger".
Can Joe Grice explain the apparent correlation between youth, higher education and homosexuality revealed by his organisation's research? If this research is to be trusted, non-homophobic parents the length and breadth of the country must be praying for their offspring to be homosexual, since this apparently will increase their chances of being not only well-educated, but permanently youthful.
Bitter experience tells me that bigots and imbeciles throughout the nation will seize on this meaningless statistic as grounds for discrimination. I would welcome some intelligent research on the subject – the ONS has produced nothing resembling it. Frankly, Gaydar is a better indicator. And unless it is attracting approximately 1.5 million non-gay members, I think the ONS has some explaining to do.
Mark McInnes, London SW2
Failure to stop child abuse
I fully endorse all the points made by Dominic Lawson (Opinion, 28 September) about our attitudes to paedophilia. Yes, "society is to blame", including the breakdown of family life. However, with my previous extensive professional experience of all forms of child abuse, including those inflicted by paedophiles, I feel that there is one further essential factor to widen the debate: communication, both inter-professional and inter-agency.
If "society" really wants to avoid future cases like Baby P, then a good start would be to look at the recommendations listed after every long report generated by previous similar fatal cases of child abuse over many years. A common factor in all these tragic cases was recognition of a failure to communicate often serious concerns about the child, especially between health professionals and social workers. Often this resulted in blame shifting from one person to another.
How many more cases like Baby P will it take before we start putting noble words into proper action?
Dr Michael A Reynolds, retired consultant paediatrician, Buxton, Derbyshire
Civil war epic
Willem Mesdag's panorama makes a breathtaking Picture of the Day (29 September) but I do recommend to your many readers who fly to Atlanta, Georgia, that they take time out to visit the city-centre cyclorama that details the destruction of the city in 1865 by the advancing Union army. This cyclorama is amazingly engaging but, sadly, overlooked by both tourists and residents and in danger of being lost for ever. It is not only a work of art but a more than fitting contrast to the sadly soulless steel and glass that now characterises downtown Atlanta.
Mike Abbott, London W4
Save the forests
Your leading article of 22 September claims that the Coalition Government has "walked away" from a pledge to ban the sale of non-sustainable rainforest timber. It has not. Ministers are just dovetailing their plans with the agreement recently secured to introduce EU-wide legislation from 2012. Incidentally, Green Party leader Caroline Lucas was the European Parliament's rapporteur and can claim credit for building cross-party agreement on the subject. I wonder if she will ever again play such a role in shaping important environment legislation now that she has moved to the Commons.
Chris Davies MEP (Lib Dem, North-west), Brussels
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NB: Fans of high tech (and those who prefer to stay indoors), should explore Oregon Scientific's Rain Gauge offerings.
Above: New England master craftsman Steve Conant makes rain gauges using the same custom techniques developed in the 19th century. The Conant Custom Estate Brass Rain Gauge is available in brass for $61.71 at Amazon.
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The natural gas and electric industries have been a buzz since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued its March 20, 2014 Orders focused on improving the coordination and scheduling of natural gas pipeline capacity with electricity markets. The electric industry's increasing reliance on natural gas as a fuel source earned the coordination of the two industries a spot at the top of a list of initiatives at FERC. Last November, FERC issued a final rule via Order No. 787, which permits interstate natural gas pipelines and electric transmission operators to share non-public operational information "for the purpose of promoting reliable service or operational planning on either the public utility's or pipeline's system." The three interrelated March 20 Orders continue FERC's efforts to build a bridge between the industries, and set an ambitious timeline for the industries to develop a consensus on standards for coordinating the scheduling processes of the natural gas and electricity markets in conjunction with the North American Energy Standards Board ("NAESB"). Through the NAESB Gas-Electric Harmonization Forum ("GEH Forum"), industry stakeholders, regulators, consumer advocacy groups, and others have been able to work towards developing a response to the proposed scheduling changes set forth in FERC's March 20th Notice of Proposed Rule Making re: Coordination of the Scheduling Processes of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines and Public Utilities ("NOPR"). The GEH Forum participants have generated four alternative consensus proposals and will vote during the Forum meeting on June 2-3, 2014 to determine which proposal to submit to the NAESB Board of Directors for consideration. According to the GEH Forum's May 28, 2014 Revised Timeline, the NAESB Board of Directors is scheduled to meet on June 4, 2014 to review and vote on the alternative consensus proposal that is recommended by the GEH Forum participants. We highlight the key components of the NOPR and the GEH Forum's progress, as well as the other March 20 Orders below.
The FERC NOPR
FERC explained that it was prompted to issue the NOPR and two other orders targeted towards enhancing coordination of the scheduling of natural gas and electricity markets, in part, in response to several concerns raised by the electric industry. Specifically, FERC noted how the nationwide standardized natural gas timelines for nomination and the acquisition of natural gas transportation are divergent from the regional scheduling practices that have developed in the electricity markets where Independent System Operators ("ISOs") and Regional Transmission Operators ("RTOs") each have established their own timelines for submission of bids and posting of awards:
Generators and transmission operators raised concerns that managing fuel procurement risk can be a challenge because of the different operating days used by the natural gas and electric industries and because the timeframe for nominating natural gas pipeline transportation service is not synchronized with the timeframe during which generators receive confirmation of their bids in the day-ahead electric markets. These differing timelines can cause significant price and/or supply risk for gas-fired generators because, to obtain the best gas price, the generators would need to nominate pipeline transportation service before they know if their electric bid has been confirmed. Generators, including generators in non-RTO markets, raised concerns about the flexibility of the gas scheduling system to accommodate their need to revise nominations in light of weather events or other operational needs. Several conference participants stressed that, due to the difficult policy questions involved, they would need Commission policy guidance before they would be able move forward on coordination of their existing scheduling practices.
Accordingly, the Commission issued the NOPR to gather public comments on its proposals to revise the natural gas operating day and scheduling practices used by interstate pipelines to schedule natural gas transportation service. FERC identified three main areas suitable for revision and proposed the following:
FERC "recognize[d] that the natural gas and electricity industries are best positioned to work out the details of how changes in scheduling practices can most efficiently be made and implemented, consistent with the policies discussed here." The NOPR provided 180 days for the natural gas and electric industries to reach consensus on standards, including any modifications to the Commission's proposed revisions through the NAESB. Public comments on the Commission's proposals, as well as comments on any consensus standards, are due within 240 days – by November 28, 2014. A link to e-file comments can be found here.
The NAESB Gas-Electric Harmonization Forum
The NAESB GEH Forum began holding meetings in April 2014 in order to provide interested participants an opportunity to help develop consensus and shape the NAESB response to the NOPR. Thus far, the GEH Forum has held three meetings, with the fourth scheduled for June 2-3, 2014 in Houston, TX. The first meeting was held on April 22-23, during which presentations and alternatives to FERC's proposal were discussed. The second meeting was May 5-6, where participants continued discussing alternatives and potential modifications to those alternatives. The third meeting on May 22-23 culminated in the decision that four alternative proposals would be put up for final binding votes at the June 2-3 meeting. A copy of the four alternative proposals that will be voted on can be found here.
During the June 2-3 meeting, the alternative proposals will be narrowed down via separate rounds of voting from four proposals to three, then from three to two, and then a vote will be taken to select one of the two remaining proposals. A final vote will be taken to determine the level of consensus on the remaining proposal. The selected proposal will be presented to the NAESB Board of Directors for consideration and vote on June 4. Details regarding the June 2-3 meeting and links to meeting materials, presentations, and more can be found here.
The GEH Forum's May 28, 2014 Revised Timeline sets forth the timeline for then developing the NAESB Board recommendations, obtaining formal industry comments, voting and ratification of consensus standards, and submitting the consensus standards to FERC by September 29. The Timeline notes that "[i]f consensus on an alternative proposal cannot be reached or is not supported by the Board of Directors by June 9, 2014 a status report will be filed with the Commission and no other GEH Forum meetings are needed."
The Companion Orders
Along with the NOPR, FERC issued two interrelated Orders:
We will keep you posted on the development of NAESB's response and FERC's Final Rule in Docket No. EL14-22.
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DISCLAIMER: Because of the generality of this update, the information provided herein may not be applicable in all situations and should not be acted upon without specific legal advice based on particular situations.
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I encourage you to send this to other Catholics you know. Please get out and vote. Drag your neighbors, unless they are libs. Drag your family. Talk them into voting pro-life if they are wavering, don't be afraid to get active and talk to people about it. There are too many close races this year, please make every effort to get to the polls, and to get other pro-life voters there as well.
A Brief Catechism for Catholic Voters
1. Isnt conscience the same as my own opinions and feelings? And doesnt everyone have the right to his or her own conscience?
Conscience is NOT the same as your opinions or feelings. Conscience cannot be identical with your feelings because conscience is the activity of your intellect in judging the rightness or wrongness of your actions or omissions, past, present, or future, while your feelings come from another part of your soul and should be governed by your intellect and will. Conscience is not identical with your opinions because your intellect bases its judgment upon the natural moral law, which is inherent in your human nature and is identical with the Ten Commandments. Unlike the civil laws made by legislators, or the opinions that you hold, the natural moral law is not anything that you invent, but rather discover within yourself and is the governing norm of your conscience. In short, Conscience is the voice of truth within you, and your opinions need to be in harmony with that truth. As a Catholic, you have the benefit of the Churchs teaching authority or Magisterium endowed upon her by Christ. The Magisterium assists you and all people of good will in understanding the natural moral law as it relates to specific issues. As a Catholic, you have the obligation to be correctly informed and normed by the teaching of the Churchs Magisterium. As for your feelings, they need to be educated by virtue so as to be in harmony with consciences voice of truth. In this way, you will have a sound conscience, according to which we you will feel guilty when you are guilty, and feel morally upright when you are morally upright. We should strive to avoid the two opposite extremes of a lax conscience and a scrupulous conscience. Meeting the obligation of continually attending to this formation of conscience will increase the likelihood that, in the actual operation or activity of conscience, you will act with a certain conscience, which clearly perceives that a given concrete action is a good action that was rightly done or should be done. Being correctly informed and certain in the actual operation of conscience is the goal of the continuing formation of conscience. Otherwise put, you should strive to avoid being incorrectly informed and doubtful in the actual judgment of conscience about a particular action or omission. You should never act on a doubtful conscience.
2. Is it morally permissible to vote for all candidates of a single party?
This would depend on the positions held by the candidates of a single party. If any one or more of them held positions that were opposed to the natural moral law, then it would not be morally permissible to vote for all candidates of this one party. Your correctly informed conscience transcends the bounds of any one political party.
3. If I think that a pro-abortion candidate will, on balance, do much more for the culture of life than a pro-life candidate, why may I not vote for the pro-abortion candidate?
If a political candidate supported abortion, or any other moral evil, such as assisted suicide and euthanasia, for that matter, it would not be morally permissible for you to vote for that person. This is because, in voting for such a person, you would become an accomplice in the moral evil at issue. For this reason, moral evils such as abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are examples of a disqualifying issue. A disqualifying issue is one which is of such gravity and importance that it allows for no political maneuvering. It is an issue that strikes at the heart of the human person and is non-negotiable. A disqualifying issue is one of such enormity that by itself renders a candidate for office unacceptable regardless of his position on other matters. You must sacrifice your feelings on other issues because you know that you cannot participate in any way in an approval of a violent and evil violation of basic human rights. A candidate for office who supports abortion rights or any other moral evil has disqualified himself as a person that you can vote for. You do not have to vote for a person because he is pro-life. But you may not vote for any candidate who supports abortion rights. Key to understanding the point above about disqualifying issues is the distinction between policy and moral principle. On the one hand, there can be a legitimate variety of approaches to accomplishing a morally acceptable goal. For example, in a societys effort to distribute the goods of health care to its citizens, there can be legitimate disagreement among citizens and political candidates alike as to whether this or that health care plan would most effectively accomplish societys goal. In the pursuit of the best possible policy or strategy, technical as distinct (although not separate) from moral reason is operative. Technical reason is the kind of reasoning involved in arriving at the most efficient or effective result. On the other hand, no policy or strategy that is opposed to the moral principles of the natural law is morally acceptable. Thus, technical reason should always be subordinate to and normed by moral reason, the kind of reasoning that is the activity of conscience and that is based on the natural moral law.
4. If I have strong feelings or opinions in favor of a particular candidate, even if he is pro-abortion, why may I not vote for him?
As explained in question 1 above, neither your feelings nor your opinions are identical with your conscience. Neither your feelings nor your opinions can take the place of your conscience. Your feelings and opinions should be governed by your conscience. If the candidate about whom you have strong feelings or opinions is pro-abortion, then your feelings and opinions need to be corrected by your correctly informed conscience, which would tell you that it is wrong for you to allow your feelings and opinions to give lesser weight to the fact that the candidate supports a moral evil.
5. If I may not vote for a pro-abortion candidate, then should it not also be true that I cant vote for a pro-capital punishment candidate?
It is not correct to think of abortion and capital punishment as the very same kind of moral issue. On the one hand, direct abortion is an intrinsic evil, and cannot be justified for any purpose or in any circumstances. On the other hand, the Church has always taught that it is the right and responsibility of the legitimate temporal authority to defend and preserve the common good, and more specifically to defend citizens against the aggressor. This defense against the aggressor may resort to the death penalty if no other means of defense is sufficient. The point here is that the death penalty is understood as an act of self-defense on the part of civil society. In more recent times, in his encyclical Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II has taught that the need for such self-defense to resort to the death penalty is rare, if not virtually nonexistent. Thus, while the Pope is saying that the burden of proving the need for the death penalty in specific cases should rest on the shoulders of the legitimate temporal authority, it remains true that the legitimate temporal authority alone has the authority to determine if and when a rare case arises that warrants the death penalty. Moreover, if such a rare case does arise and requires resorting to capital punishment, this societal act of self-defense would be a *morally good action* even if it does have the unintended and unavoidable evil effect of the death of the aggressor. Thus, unlike the case of abortion, it would be morally irresponsible to rule out all such rare possibilities a priori, just as it would be morally irresponsible to apply the death penalty indiscriminately.
6. If I think that a candidate who is pro-abortion has better ideas to serve the poor, and the pro-life candidate has bad ideas that will hurt the poor, why may I not vote for the candidate that has the better ideas for serving the poor?
Serving the poor is not only admirable, but also obligatory for Catholics as an exercise of solidarity. Solidarity has to do with the sharing of both spiritual and material goods, and with what the Church calls the preferential option for the poor. This preference means that we have the duty to give priority to helping those most needful, both materially and spiritually. Beginning in the family, solidarity extends to every human association, even to the international moral order. Based on the response to question 3 above, two important points must be made. First, when it comes to the matter of determining how social and economic policy can best serve the poor, there can be a legitimate variety of approaches proposed, and therefore legitimate disagreement among voters and candidates for office. Secondly, solidarity can never be at the price of embracing a disqualifying issue. Besides, when it comes to the unborn, abortion is a most grievous offense against solidarity, for the unborn are surely among societys most needful. The right to life is a paramount issue because as Pope John Paul II says it is the first right, on which all the others are based, and which cannot be recuperated once it is lost. If a candidate for office refuses solidarity with the unborn, he has laid the ground for refusing solidarity with anyone.
7. If a candidate says that he is personally opposed to abortion but feels the need to vote for it under the circumstances, doesnt this candidates personal opposition to abortion make it morally permissible for me to vote for him, especially if I think that his other views are the best for people, especially the poor?
A candidate for office who says that he is personally opposed to abortion but actually votes in favor of it is either fooling himself or trying to fool you. Outside of the rare case in which a hostage is forced against his will to perform evil actions with his captors, a person who carries out an evil action  such as voting for abortion  performs an immoral act, and his statement of personal opposition to the moral evil of abortion is either self-delusion or a lie. If you vote for such a candidate, you would be an accomplice in advancing the moral evil of abortion. Therefore, it is not morally permissible to vote for such a candidate for office, even, as explained in questions 3 and 6 above, you think that the candidates other views are best for the poor.
8. What if none of the candidates are completely pro-life?
As Pope John Paul II explains in his encyclical, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life), when it is not possible to overturn or completely abrogate a pro-abortion law, an elected official, whose absolute personal opposition to procured abortion was well known, could licitly support proposals aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessening its negative consequences at the level of general opinion and morality. This does not in fact represent an illicit cooperation with an unjust law, but rather a legitimate and proper attempt to limit its evil aspects. Logically, it follows from these words of the Pope that a voter may likewise vote for that candidate who will most likely limit the evils of abortion or any other moral evil at issue.
9. What if one leading candidate is anti-abortion except in the cases of rape or incest, another leading candidate is completely pro-abortion, and a trailing candidate, not likely to win, is completely anti-abortion. Would I be obliged to vote for the candidate not likely to win?
In such a case, the Catholic voter may clearly choose to vote for the candidate not likely to win. In addition, the Catholic voter may assess that voting for that candidate might only benefit the completely pro-abortion candidate, and, precisely for the purpose of curtailing the evil of abortion, decide to vote for the leading candidate that is anti-abortion but not perfectly so. This decision would be in keeping with the words of the Pope quoted in question 8 above.
10. What if all the candidates from whom I have to choose are pro-abortion? Do I have to abstain from voting at all? What do I do?
Obviously, one of these candidates is going to win the election. Thus, in this dilemma, you should do your best to judge which candidate would do the least moral harm. However, as explained in question 5 above, you should not place a candidate who is pro-capital punishment (and anti-abortion) in the same moral category as a candidate who is pro-abortion. Faced with such a set of candidates, there would be no moral dilemma, and the clear moral obligation would be to vote for the candidate who is pro-capital punishment, not necessarily because he is pro-capital punishment, but because he is anti-abortion.
11. Is not the Churchs stand that abortion must be illegal a bit of an exception? Does not the Church generally hold that government should restrict its legislation of morality significantly?
The Churchs teaching that abortion should be illegal is not an exception. St. Thomas Aquinas put it this way: Wherefore human laws do not forbid all vices, from which the virtuous abstain, but only the more grievous vices, from which it is possible for the majority to abstain; and chiefly those that are to the hurt of others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be maintained: thus human law prohibits murder, theft and such like. [ emphasis added]. Abortion qualifies as a grievous vice that hurts others, and the lack of prohibition of this evil by society is something by which human society cannot be maintained. As Pope John Paul II has emphasized, the denial of the right to life, in principle, sets the stage, in principle, for the denial of all other rights.
12. What about elected officials who happen to be of the same party affiliation? Are they committing a sin by being in the same party, even if they dont advocate pro-choice views? Are they guilty by association?
Being of the same political party as those who advocate pro-abortion is indeed a serious evil IF I belong to this political party IN ORDER TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF with that partys advocacy of pro-abortion policies. However, it can also be true that being of such a political party has as its purpose to change the policies of the party. Of course, if this is the purpose, one would have to consider whether it is reasonable to think the political partys policies can be changed. Assuming that it is reasonable to think so, then it would be morally justifiable to remain in that political party. Remaining in that political party cannot be instrumental in the advancing of pro-abortion policies (especially if I am busily striving to change the partys policies) as can my VOTING for candidates or for a political party with a pro-abortion policy.
13. What about voting for a pro-abortion person for something like state treasurer, in which case the candidate would have no say on matters of life in the capacity of her duties, it just happens to be her personal position. This would not be a sin, right?
If someone were running for state treasurer and that candidate made it a point to state publicly that he was in favor of exterminating people over the age of 70, would you vote for him? The fact that the candidate has that evil in his mind tells you that there are easily other evils in his mind; and the fact that he would publicly state it is a danger signal. If personal character matters in a political candidate, and personal character involves the kind of thoughts a person harbors, then such a candidate who publicly states that he is in favor of the evil of exterminating people over the age of 70 - or children who are unborn - has also disqualified himself from receiving a Catholics vote. I would go further and say that such a candidate, in principle - in the light of the natural law - disqualifies himself from public office.
14. Is it a mortal sin to vote for a pro-abortion candidate?
Except in the case in which a voter is faced with all pro-abortion candidates (in which case, as explained in question 8 above, he or she strives to determine which of them would cause the let damage in this regard), a candidate that is pro-abortion disqualifies himself from receiving a Catholics vote. This is because being pro-abortion cannot simply be placed alongside the candidate's other positions on Medicare and unemployment, for example; and this is because abortion is intrinsically evil and cannot be morally justified for any reason or set of circumstances. To vote for such a candidate even with the knowledge that the candidate is pro-abortion is to become an accomplice in the moral evil of abortion. If the voter also knows this, then the voter sins mortally.
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An Election Prayer to Mary
|O most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy, at this most critical time, we entrust the United States of America to your loving care. Most Holy Mother, we beg you to reclaim this land for the glory of your Son. Overwhelmed with the burden of the sins of our nation, we cry to you from the depths of our hearts and seek refuge in your motherly protection. Look down with mercy upon us and touch the hearts of our people. Open our minds to the great worth of human life and to the responsibilities that accompany human freedom. Free us from the falsehoods that lead to the evil of abortion. Grant our country the wisdom to proclaim that God's law is the foundation on which this nation was founded, and that He alone is the True Source of our cherished rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. O Merciful Mother, give us the courage to reject the "culture of death" and lead us into a new Millennium of Life. Trusting in your most powerful intercession, we pray,
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, we fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, our Mother. To thee do we come, before thee we stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not our petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer us. Amen
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A mortal sin not to vote? An eternity in hell because one didn't go to the polls?
Moral theologians prior to Vatican II had lots of time to sit around and dream up mortally sinful acts. This is one of them.
I'd like to see the underlying theology behind this prepostery. I'm not in favor of encouraging people to vote who don't have a great desire to, as they usually vote on emotion.
As for me, I would not vote for a Democrat under any circumstances, even if a pro-life Democrat were running against a pro-choice Republican. Kay Bailey Hutchison is pro-choice, and I've never failed to vote for her for Senate; I don't even recall what her opponents' positions on abortion were.
Republicans in power will do more to promote life than Democrats in power will, period.
The Catholic Church has always had a difficult time dealing with democratic forms of government because it knows better than anyone else that most human beings are dumber than bags of rocks and therefore have no business participating in the affairs of government. This is why the Church has to lay out a series of strict guidelines like these -- if left to their own devices, people will often support a morally bankrupt form of government over a morally legitimate one.
Remember, it was the crowds of people who wanted Pontius Pilate to release Barabbas.
Excellent work; thank you for putting this together!
Formal cooperationis that degree of cooperation in which my will embraces the evil object of another 's will. Thus, to vote for a candidate because he favors abortion is formal cooperation in his evil political acts. However, to vote for someone in order to limit a greater evil, that is, to restrict in so far as possible the evil that another candidate might do if elected, is to have a good purpose in voting. The voter's will has as its object this limitation of evil and not the evil which the imperfect politician might do in his less than perfect adherence to Catholic moral principles. Such cooperation is called material, and is permitted for a serious reason, such as preventing the election of a worse candidate.Thanks for a post I can wrap my brain around.
You're right, of course. Most countries require voting, by law, whereas it is a right in the United States and we don't horse-whip citizens into polling places. But, threatening with eternal damnation those dummies who don't care about voting is odd.
I don't understand people who don't vote. My dad never voted after voting for JFK in 1960, and my wife is the only person in her family who votes. I'm glad; they'd vote Democrat if they did.
Pings to the faithful and bidding the prayers of the faithful for the Divine Mercy of the Lord to be manifested through this election...
There is nothing odd about it. It is the duty of the Church to prepare its members for the day they will stand and be judged before God. I would not want to be the person who lived in America post-Roe v. Wade and has to explain why getting a haircut on the first Tuesday in November was so important in light of the 40+ million human beings who were being killed with the full approval of my democratically-elected government.
I've always found the conversations between Christ and Pontius Pilate to be the most fascinating parts of the New Testament. Christ often shows open anger toward the Pharisees, but his attitude when dealing with Pilate is almost nonchalant. As if to make everyone understand that Pilate has a legitimate role in the eyes of God.
ALL Catholics need to search their consciences and vote pro-life. This is the single more imporant matter we can vote on.
I'm in California, and I'm voting for Bill Simon who is pro-life AND Catholic. For those in California, the other pro-life statewide candidates are:
Dick Ackerman for Attorney General
Tom McClintock for Controller
Keith Olberg for Secretary of State
The other statewide Republican candidates are pro-abortion running against pro-abortion Democrats.
Get out and vote ... and talk to people in your parish about the necessity of voting pro-life. Maybe a special prayer tomorrow to all the Saints would be in order!
God bless.
It might even be a mortal sin if one's refusal to vote would result in the election of an unworthy candidate.A mortal sin not to vote? An eternity in hell because one didn't go to the polls?
I'm not in favor of encouraging people to vote who don't have a great desire to, as they usually vote on emotion.
But, threatening with eternal damnation those dummies who don't care about voting is odd.You get awfully excited about these things.
The only people who will be swayed into voting by the fear of eternal damnation are the same people who will be swayed against voting for pro-aborts by the same article and by the same fear. This statement is not going to drive lots of emotional pro-abort democrats to the polls, as those people care very little about the moral principles (at least the Catholic moral principles) of their vote to begin with. If they dont care that they cooperate with abortion by voting for aborts, they wont care about skipping the voting booth either.
As to whether its a mortal sin or not, I don't see any reason why it couldn't be. There are sins of commission, and sins of omission. FAiling to act to prevent a rape, for example just sitting by and watching, is clearly a rather serious sin. Sitting by and watching murder when you can do something to prevent it is similarly a rather serious omission.
If you have the chance to do something about abortion, know that you have the chance, and still fail to act, you clearly sin. Whether it is mortal or not depends on the specifics, as I think this article leaves clear.
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Vote for Frank Creel who has been endorsed by WeVoteProLife.com!
I get awfully excited about the casuastic and almost casual way the Church decreed what was mortally sinful, which, thankfully it is no longer doing. You know well the joke about those doing time in hell because they ate a hot dog on Friday prior to Vatican II.
Mortal sin separates one from God, for eternity. There just aren't many things one can do or not do which would result in such finality.
Somehow not voting (no matter what is at stake), or voting for the "wrong" person, just doesn't rise to the same level as murder, or cheating on one's wife, or the abuse of a child.
Nor does eating meat on a particular day.
People who don't vote are lousy citizens, but I don't want someone of that mindset deciding important issues anyway. So, I'd rather they stay away.
Sounds like cause for mortal sin to me, when one looks at the grim reality of a legalized halocaust of the innocent. Great point...Mortal indeed.
I'm not going to argue with you about this, but the people you vote for have no chance of being elected, so they're not going to do anything about abortion, for sure.
A Republican Senate stands a good chance of bringing a ban on PBA to the floor, where it would pass, and Bush would sign it.
The Catholic Church has always taught that civil governments are a legitimate form of authority over Christians and are to be obeyed in all ways except those that are morally wrong.
Don't forget to ping the Orthodox. We might like harrassing you, but we do agree on most moral items.Would one of you have an orthodox ping list? Im a little short on time as Im headed on the road again. Otherwise I would try to generate one again.
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In 5 days, if voters in Virginia's 11th Congressional District want a real conservative, they should vote for Frank Creel for Congress.
Democrats have not fielded a candidate for this race -- and why should they? Tom Davis is close enough to perfect for them. See my post (#26) above.
The problem with your example is that I am not a Cub Scout, but Jesus was a man. There was no "utter disregard" for Pilate's authority because his authority to carry out his duties as Caesar's representative was real. If Christ had intended to illustrate an utter disregard for the authority of the Roman government, He would have been executed by the Pharisees instead.
I think these events reveal quite a bit about Christ and His mission that isn't obvious at first glance. I believe that the "render unto Caesar" discourse was not just intended to serve as a point of instruction for Christians, but foretold the events that would unfold later on. Christ specifically told the Pharisees to "give Caesar what is his and give God what is His," but in the end the Pharisees would do neither. In their vain attempt to adhere to the Law of Moses, they refused to kill Christ themselves during Passover but instead handed Him over to Caesar to have it done. In "rendering unto Caesar" something that was not Caesar's, they took something away from God (His Chosen People) something that was God's.
It is worth noting, then, that the very first conversion after Christ's death involved not a Jewish citizen of Israel but a pagan citizen of Rome -- the centurion who stood at the foot of the cross. This was not an accident of history -- it was a clear indication that the future of Christ's Church would lie not with the Chosen People, but with the Gentiles.
Like the worshippers of Moloch in ancient Canaan, the citizens of the most democratic nation in the world today are characterized by their hedonism, their lust for gold, and their enthusiasm for child sacrifice. If this were a truly Christian culture, there wouldn't be an abortion clinic in the country left standing. Oh, sure, we vote pro-life, but voting won't get rid of abortion: most people want legal abortion. A constitutional amendment won't fly for the same reason: not enough states would support it. (And, as we've seen, the effort to put pro-lifers on the Supreme Court simply results in the nominee getting Borked on nationwide TV.)
The obvious solution would be simply to bulldoze the clinics and keep bulldozing them until the abortion industry gives up -- but we can't do that, for obvious reasons. Therefore, since the majority rules, we just have to go along with it and allow the daily murder of innocent human beings. After all, the People have spoken.
And when the majority decides that some other class of human being is "life unworthy of life"? I guess we'll just go along with that, too. All hail King Mob, and the media handlers who inspire them.
No one goes to Hell for simply eating a hot dog on Friday. They go to Hell for the sin of Pride, the pride of a person who freely chooses to disobey the teaching of the Church in a matter of faith and/or morals.
God, being perfect, is perfectly Just. He doesn't throw anybody in Hell; Hell is the final destination of those who freely choose to put their own wishes and desires above God's. The only people who go to Hell are people who want to go there.
Reminds me of something the late Rich Mullins said one time:
"Democracy isn't bad politics, it's just bad math. A thousand corrupt minds are just as evil as one corrupt mind."
I miss him.
It was a joke, for heaven's sake. I'm not sure where abstaining from meat falls, since it is a discipline of the Church that's flexible.
The only people who go to Hell are people who want to go there.
Well, we can hope that Hell's population is very small, then.
Well, okay. You're off the hook -- but only because we're from the same Diocese. Speaking of: come visit us at St. Mary the Virgin parish sometime. Ever been to an Anglican Use mass?
Well, we can hope that Hell's population is very small, then.
We do. But that's the truly wonderful part about Christianity: the only way to end up in Hell is to look into Christ's loving eyes, fully realizing one's own sin and His perfect Sacrifice that forgives it, and say to Him, "Non serviam. I'd rather reign in Hell than serve You in Heaven."
We should all pray to God that nobody chooses to go to Hell.
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Forwarding to the list : I didn't noticed the reply-to header. BTW, changes are commited ! Sylvain -------- Original Message -------- Objet: Re: map:parameter in map:components Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:16:36 +0200 De: Sylvain Wallez <email@example.com> Société: Anyware Technologies A: email@example.com Références: <firstname.lastname@example.com> <email@example.com> <firstname.lastname@example.com> Christian Haul a écrit : > > On 19.Jul.2001 -- 11:06 PM, giacomo wrote: > > I totally agree with you, Sylvain, and would encourage Christian to > > remove the hole configuration part from the AbstractAction at all > > because this forces new developer to think of using parameter > > elements instead of better ones like <foo>bar</foo>. > I've made the corrections after Christian's approval. I will commit them this morning after testing. > I found that actions could be easier to use when some parameters could > be specified that are valid for all invocations. For example one might > want to have all validator actions use the same descriptor file, or > all database actions use the same connection, or ... > This is a good idea, only the way you did it was questionable. The information contained in <map:components> is configuration, while <map:parameter> in the pipelines is request-time parameters. A configuration can specify a default value that will be used when no parameter is given, but IMO it's confusing to have parameter declarations in the configuration. Also, defaulting parameter values in the configuration may not make sense for all actions. > Before, it was necessary to specify this for every invocation. I think > that makes the sitemap less readable. Action sets are a solution to > this only, if the success of an action is of no importance to the rest > of the pipeline or this is communicated through side channels like > modifying the request object. > > Hence, I believe that all actions should be able to receive the same > configuration information for sitemap wide use that they take per > invokation. > > If we can agree on this, it would be a duplication of effort to have > every action implement parsing the configuration itself. This is the > reason why I suggested to put this into AbstractAction. > > Would you prefer to have another abstract action, that contains some > configuration support? > > Sylvain is right about the map:parameter part. We could modify the > configuration method so that it takes every node name as key and the > node value as er value. > > Example: > <map:action name="form-validator" src="org.apache.cocoon.acting.FormValidatorAction"> > <map:parameter name="descriptor" value="context://descriptor.xml"/> > </map:parameter> > > becomes > <map:action name="form-validator" src="org.apache.cocoon.acting.FormValidatorAction"> > <descriptor>context://descriptor.xml</descriptor> > </map:parameter> > That's how I changed it. > I would modify the code to what we agree upon, but I understood > Sylvain that he already did this and didn't want to duplicate it. > Right. I'll notify you when commit is done. > Chris. > > -- > C h r i s t i a n H a u l > email@example.com > fingerprint: 99B0 1D9D 7919 644A 4837 7D73 FEF9 6856 335A 9E08 > Sylvain. -- Sylvain Wallez Anyware Technologies - http://www.anyware-tech.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, email: email@example.com
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