Word: disobeyance
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Increasingly, priests and laymen disobey the orders of an immediate superior in the name of obedience to "the mind of the church." One striking example took place in England last month where Father Arnold McMahon of Worcestershire and Father Joseph Cocker of the Isle of Wight openly challenged the church's position on contraception. "The official teaching authority has decreed that contraception is always wrong," wrote Father McMahon in the Birmingham Post. "This is what I deny." It is also denied in practice by millions of Catholics. "They don't leave the church over birth control nowadays," says...
...Council by urging Episcopal representatives "to seek to restrain the N.C.C. from efforts to influence specific legislation." Also in the interests of Southern harmony, lay deputies voted down a resolution, previously passed by the bishops, that recognized "the right of any person for reasons of conscience to disobey" laws that are "in basic conflict with the concept of human dignity under...
Those who plan to flout the Supreme Court's ruling are wrong for at least three reasons. The first is that the Constitution, as interpreted by the Court, is the law of the land; to disobey the Court is to disobey the law. This reason is legally convincing but morally empty; the Dred Scott decision was the law, too, yet those who disobeyed it were right...
...politics or government. If the rights of a sovereign state and local units of government are taken away, they will be replaced by a totalitarian government--a police state. Only our Constitution stands between the people and a dictatorship. If politicians are allowed to circumvent, misconstrue, cripple or disobey the Constitution, then Constitutional government is in jeopardy and the liberty and freedom and right of every American citizen to the pursuit of happiness are menaced...
...London from California specially to testify on behalf of the defendants. When he was asked his views about civil defense, disarmament and nuclear war, Mr. Justice Havers ruled the questions out of order. Philosopher Bertrand Russell, still belligerent at 89, suffered a similar experience. "Do you feel people should disobey the law any time they want to?" Defendant Patrick Pottle asked Witness Russell...