Ethics
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Tuesday September 8, 2009
Catholic Church • Ethics • Pornography:
BBC Northern Ireland presenter William Crawley has a blog post about “Hardcore Profits, a BBC documentary about the pornography industry, has been looking into those organisations who have investments, directly or indirectly, with in the adult entertainment business.”
Crawley says following a change in ethical policy guidelines the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops in 2003, Christian Brothers Investment Services now have investments of tens of millions of dollars in companies that make sizeable profits from commercial pornography. The Bishops’ guidelines permit these investments because the new rules allow the church to do business with a company as long as income from pornography does not represent “a significant portion of its revenues”.
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Monday September 7, 2009
Ethics:
“I was a little surprised on Sunday when my pastor took his customary sermon spot in front of the altar, holding the Scripture in one hand and a newspaper in the other.
In that day’s Gospel, Jesus healed a deaf and mute man (Mark 7: 31-37), and in that day’s paper, how to best heal the sick was a headline issue.”
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In that day’s Gospel, Jesus healed a deaf and mute man (Mark 7: 31-37), and in that day’s paper, how to best heal the sick was a headline issue.”
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Monday March 16, 2009
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaeda captives “constituted torture,” a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA “black site” prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.” Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.
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Tuesday October 14, 2008
Ethics • Jehovah's Witnesses:
People should be able to refuse in advance medical treatment in the event of their becoming incapacitated by serious accident or illness, according to the Law Reform Commission in Ireland.The commission also provisionally recommends that refusal of treatment on religious grounds in advance care directives be permitted. This issue has been explored by the courts recently in relation to Jehovah’s Witnesses, who, on religious grounds, do not accept blood transfusions.
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Thursday September 18, 2008
Ethics:
Religious organizations can now place anti-abortion advertisements on Google after a lawsuit by a British pro-life charity forced it to lift the ban.
Google settled out of court Wednesday with The Christian Institute, a UK-based charity, and will now allow religious groups to place factual and campaigning ads about abortion. [video]
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Wednesday March 12, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Ignoring America’s own plethora of human rights violations, the US State Department published its annual report grading other countries on their human rights records.
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Saturday March 8, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
“Torture. A word that in my lifetime I would never have guessed would be associated with the United States of America. Torture is wrong. Always.”
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Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
George Bush, who claims to be a Christian, lied when he said America does not torture.
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Friday February 15, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Further evidence that George Bush is a liar. He has claimed over and over again that America does not torture. But he won’t give us the practice.
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Friday February 8, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
The White House said Wednesday that the widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding is legal and that President Bush could authorize the CIA to resume using the simulated-drowning method under extraordinary circumstances.
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Wednesday February 6, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Now Mr. Hamad says he’ll sue the US government for compensation for those lost years – years where his family became impoverished and one daughter became sick and died. But he says it’s not just about the money. He wants the US to return to what it used to be, a beacon of freedom. [video]
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Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
CIA finally admits: America tortures prisoners.
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Thursday January 31, 2008
Ethics • Netherlands:
Media Minister Ronald Plasterk sees no possibilities nor desire for banning public broadcasters BNN and VPRO from showing the explicit porn film Deep Throat. Christian government party ChristenUnie appears to be accepting this decision.
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Ethics • Netherlands:
A stale old porn movie is at the centre of a political row involving Dutch public television. Public broadcasting corporations VPRO and BNN are planning to screen Deep Throat, a 1972 vintage production, as part of a themed night on the history of pornographic films.
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Wednesday January 9, 2008
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
In comments published last year, Agee defended his decision to expose the CIA: “It was a time in the 70s when the worst imaginable horrors were going on in Latin America. “Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Guatemala, El Salvador – they were military dictatorships with death squads, all with the backing of the CIA and the US government. That was what motivated me to name all the names and work with journalists who were interested in knowing just who the CIA were in their countries.”
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Monday December 17, 2007
Ethics • Netherlands:
The city of Amsterdam, Netherlands, is making good on its promise to clean up its world-famous Red Light District. Plans to upgrade the 750-year-old neighborhood over the next ten years include banning window prostitution from all but two locations.
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Drew and Stacy Peterson • Ethics:
A pastor who says Stacy Peterson confided in him a few weeks before she went missing spilled details of their alleged conversation on national TV a few days ago. Was that ethical?
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Sunday December 16, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
New Jersey joins the civilized world: The New Jersey General Assembly approved a bill eliminating capital punishment on Thursday, clearing the way for Gov. Jon S. Corzine to sign the measure as early as Monday.
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Tuesday October 30, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Serious problems in state death penalty systems compromise fairness and accuracy in capital punishment cases and justify a nationwide freeze on executions, the American Bar Association says.
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Thursday October 11, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
In an interview with CNN, former President Jimmy Carter said he believes that the United States has tortured detainee and that President Bush has authorized the abuse, which he said violates international laws.
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Friday October 5, 2007
Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
When it comes to human rights violations, America wants to police the world while officially following a “do as I say, not as I do” policy.
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Monday September 3, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Since capital punishment was reinstated in the United States three decades ago, 124 people awaiting execution have been exonerated. For some prisoners, the appeals process provided time to prove their innocence. Now a move by the government to speed up appeals has alarmed death penalty opponents, and even some supporters, who worry that innocent people could be put to death.
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Wednesday April 25, 2007
Ethics:
An “abortion ship” is planning to sail to countries where the practice is illegal and take women out to sea for terminations after the Dutch Government lifted restrictions banning it from international waters.
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Wednesday April 18, 2007
Ethics:
Arguing that Illinois lawmakers have a moral duty to legalize medical use of marijuana, dozens of pastors and church leaders are urging them to allow doctors to recommend the drug for seriously ill patients.
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Tuesday April 10, 2007
Death Penalty • Ethics • Human Rights Violations • USA:
Questions about justice, expense undermining political support for capital punishment.
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