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...have been a minister for 24 years, and I am not going to start now being told what to preach. I do not want to defy the government. But Scripture says that when there is a conflict between the law of God and the law of man, we must obey the law of God. I will continue to preach as instructed. Our God is not blind. He is not deaf. He is not sleeping. He sees what is happening, and when he sees, he acts. God came down to deliver his people out of bondage. I have no doubt that...
Harvard spokesman Joe Wrinn said the University encourages “students to obey and follow...
...last week voted 80 to 12 in favor of a bill that would ban new bank loans to South Africa, cut off nuclear trade, prohibit the sale of computers to government agencies and deny federal aid to the exports of nearly all U.S. companies with facilities there unless they obey what are known as the Sullivan principles. These are a set of six guidelines drafted by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a director of General Motors and the Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, that require companies to have integrated facilities, offer training programs for blacks and provide equal pay and treatment...
...advice always heeded? Did Catholics worldwide always obey his exacting religious and philosophical demands? Absolutely not, but that is our own failure and not his. As Christians should know, humanity does not always act kindly when confronted with harsh or absolute truth. The Pope’s philosophy of life, like Christ’s, was above all else this: it is difficult. It is not easy to do God’s will, it is not easy to pray every day, it is not easy to master your own base personal desires, it is not easy to confront death...
...there is little evidence of one. Ten years ago, Pope John Paul II signed the encyclical Evangelium Vitae, which deemed euthanasia a "crime that no human law can claim to legitimize." "There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws," the encyclical reads. "Instead, there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection." Many Europeans, though, seem content to leave harrowing decisions like those in the Schiavo case to the consciences of families and physicians...