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Calling All Nuclear Values Voters
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-tyler-wiggstevenson/values-voters-2012_b_2010494.html
Calling All Nuclear Values Voters
Posted: 10/24/2012
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Our next president, in addition to managing nuclear crises, must have a comprehensive vision for an era that former Senator Sam Nunn calls a race between "cooperation and catastrophe."
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From a religious perspective, the 2012 election is historically unique in respect to nuclear ethics.
The major umbrella organizations of American Christianity - the National Association of Evangelicals, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the National Council of Churches (NCC) - are not known for aligning on social issues. However, following the adoption of a new policy position by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) last year, the three groups are essentially unanimous, for the first time in American history, in their recommendations on nuclear weapons.
They have separately urged that faithful citizens support:
- Maintaining the absolute taboo against the use of nuclear weapons as an organizing principle for nuclear policy;
- Ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban nuclear testing worldwide;
- Advancing nuclear disarmament through verifiable, multilateral reductions in global arsenals;
- Recalibrating U.S. nuclear policy to post-Cold War realities, including enhanced safeguards against accidental use of nuclear weapons;
- Taking leadership in securing bomb-capable material from terrorists;
- Reconsidering the morality and utility of a policy of nuclear deterrence that holds millions of lives in the balance.
More than seventy percent of American citizens identify with a denomination represented by one of these three bodies. Their positions serve as reflections of the modes of thought and values that guide Americans in their ethical judgments. And they reflect the riches of a two-thousand-year-old treasury of Christian moral thinking on peace and war, which is worthy in its own right.
How the candidates line up
An initial review of the candidates' track records regarding nuclear weapons suggests that Mr. Obama's positions align more closely with normative Christian teaching than do Mr. Romney's.
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The Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson is the founding director of the Two Futures Project, a movement of American Christians for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and the author of the forthcoming The World Is Not Ours To Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good.
Calling All Nuclear Values Voters
Posted: 10/24/2012
<snip>
Our next president, in addition to managing nuclear crises, must have a comprehensive vision for an era that former Senator Sam Nunn calls a race between "cooperation and catastrophe."
<snip>
From a religious perspective, the 2012 election is historically unique in respect to nuclear ethics.
The major umbrella organizations of American Christianity - the National Association of Evangelicals, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and the National Council of Churches (NCC) - are not known for aligning on social issues. However, following the adoption of a new policy position by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) last year, the three groups are essentially unanimous, for the first time in American history, in their recommendations on nuclear weapons.
They have separately urged that faithful citizens support:
- Maintaining the absolute taboo against the use of nuclear weapons as an organizing principle for nuclear policy;
- Ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would ban nuclear testing worldwide;
- Advancing nuclear disarmament through verifiable, multilateral reductions in global arsenals;
- Recalibrating U.S. nuclear policy to post-Cold War realities, including enhanced safeguards against accidental use of nuclear weapons;
- Taking leadership in securing bomb-capable material from terrorists;
- Reconsidering the morality and utility of a policy of nuclear deterrence that holds millions of lives in the balance.
More than seventy percent of American citizens identify with a denomination represented by one of these three bodies. Their positions serve as reflections of the modes of thought and values that guide Americans in their ethical judgments. And they reflect the riches of a two-thousand-year-old treasury of Christian moral thinking on peace and war, which is worthy in its own right.
How the candidates line up
An initial review of the candidates' track records regarding nuclear weapons suggests that Mr. Obama's positions align more closely with normative Christian teaching than do Mr. Romney's.
<snip>
The Rev. Tyler Wigg-Stevenson is the founding director of the Two Futures Project, a movement of American Christians for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and the author of the forthcoming The World Is Not Ours To Save: Finding the Freedom to Do Good.
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