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Letters to the Editor Choose Life license plates
Letters to the Editor Choose Life license plates
Choose Life license plates
Thursday, 07 May 2009 12:40
Choose Life license plates
Editor:
I would love to see an article in The Miscellany telling readers how to obtain a South Carolina Choose Life license tag for their vehicles. The $35 vanity fee is donated to South Carolina Citizens for Life.
Jean Bongiorno
Bluffton
Editor’s note: The Choose Life plate is available to state residents from any S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles office. The cost is $35 every two years in addition to regular registration fees. Funds from the sale of the plate will be distributed to SC Citizens for Life, also called Choose Life S.C., to support pregnancy care centers, according to the SCDMV Web site, www.scdmvonline.com. Visit the site for details or call (803) 896-5000.
Editor:
In view of the fracas it has caused, Notre Dame University should change its name to Mater Dolorosa University — from Our Lady’s University to the Sorrowful Mother University. After all, they earned it.
Father Stanley Smolenski
Kingstree
Editor:
I urge Bishop Guglielmone to use every parcel of his episcopal authority to act swiftly and decisively to curb the tide of assaults against freedom of conscience initiatives by vehemently apprising the Catholic populace of their spiritual and political peril when they do not defend church teaching through responsible voting, and by leading them to right the course.
The current backlash to deny health care workers the right to abstain from unethical participation in medical procedures, such as abortion, in federally funded facilities, violates our God-given rights as Catholics and our constitutionally guaranteed rights as free citizens, and is a direct issuance of the sweep of the last election by the Democratic party’s anti-life agenda.
Such an infringement upon our civil and religious liberty, extending as it does to the latest tactics by this administration to label pro-lifers as potential right-wing terrorists and to insist that Catholic universities “de-neuter” themselves of their own religious symbols before the president will speak at their functions, is the current state of affairs because of a failure on the part of the Catholic population in this country to vote its ethical principles.
Such a blatant disregard of this administration for religious institutions in general if not its outright hostility to the Catholic Church in particular, which is the major dissident voice against such totalitarian-style tactics, exists because the Church of Christ failed to stand for Christ.
The solution, rouse the faithful to responsible citizenship!
Mary C. Zipter
Lexington
