Chapter 5 Basic Human Rights Basic Human Rights

Chapter 5

Basic Human Rights

Basic Human Rights

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Responsibilities in Civil Society

Subsidiarity The moral principle that large organizations or governments should not interfere with or take over responsibilities that can be administered by individuals and local organizations, but rather should support them, always with a focus on the common good. Responsibilities in Civil Society

Responsibilities in Civil Society

The Government and Human Rights

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. Letter from Birmingham Jail August, 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Government and Human Rights

The Government and Human Rights

I die the King's good servant, but God's first. The last words of St. Thomas More July 6, 1535 The Government and Human Rights

Catholic Understanding of Government

Relativism There’s no such thing as truth! Catholic Understanding of Government

Catholic Understanding of Government

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Politics and Conscience

Significant issues to consider in a candidate’s position: • Conscience protection for individuals as well as religious institutions to serve the public in accord with religious values • Social and economic policies that support jobs with good working conditions and just wages • Comprehensive immigration reform and support of refugee resettlement for unaccompanied children • The definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman • Opposition to legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide • Respect for life includes rejection of violence and death penalty • Affordable health care for low and moderate income individuals & families • Support for policies to protect vulnerable persons; prisoner rehabilitation and re–entry programs • Support of “child benefit” as principle for participation in education programs of their. Politics children and Conscience • Opposition to abortion also includes support for