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Conscientious Objection, Education for Citizenship and Spurious logic


Rouco Varela

was because the press conference and said: " law will be enforced. But another thing you can do conscientious objection."

We will not say anything here about the agenda of Education for Citizenship, because some time we leave behind our school years, and is unknown. We will say nothing about whether the Church, to which we belong, may or may not accuse someone of indoctrination without falling into some ridiculous.

Of more interest to the traveler is the topic of the right to conscientious objection, which has lately become fashionable: the doctors who refuse to abort, judges who refuse to marry same sex, and now some parents who refuse to send their children to certain classes.

But really there is this broad right to conscientious objection?

See what Article 30 says of the English Constitution, which we reproduce in full:

"1. The English have the right and duty to defend Spain.

2. Law shall determine the duties of the English military and regulate, with due guarantees, conscientious objection , well as other grounds for exemption from compulsory military service, may impose, where appropriate, an alternative service.

3. may be established civil service for the fulfillment of general interest purposes.

4. By law may govern duties of citizens in the event of serious risk, catastrophe or public calamity. " And nothing

more is said about conscientious objection. We concluded therefore that conscientious objection was acknowledged only as a cause of exemption from military service under the terms covered by a regulation having the force of law, but not as a broad right to prevent the enforcement of law against the principle Mandatory General Legal Standards.

However, from the Catholic Church has been arguing that it is possible "object" compliance with standards, if not (we) like. Without doubt this concept underlies Scholastic / Platonic idea of \u200b\u200bjustice and the absence of the rule of law which does not conform to this idea. It is therefore el renacimiento del Derecho Natural, Ideal y Preexistente, al que ha de compararse el derecho escrito (positivo), para aceptarlo o descartarlo.

San Agustín cabalga de nuevo.

Con esto no sólo hemos hecho retroceder el pensamiento jurídico unos cuatrocientos o quinientos años; estamos cayendo en un intolerable relativismo jurídico.

Los principios de Obligatoriedad de las Normas y de Seguridad Jurídica (que sí están en la CE) suponen que la norma jurídica, si es acorde con la Constitución, ha de cumplirse, para que así todos los ciudadanos puedan conocer las consecuencias jurídicas de sus actos.

Eso no evita que la conciencia particular citizens can influence your daily life, or even the application of the rules. A doctor who does not want to perform abortions can be shifted as a judge who does not wish to hold certain marriages, even though the latter in the meantime be required to carry out their work (or be punished, but that's another story.)

For parents, the freedom to educate their children, (which is also in the Constitution) may object to a particular educational program, but not by way of conscientious objection, but the contrast of Constitutional Rights.

Rouco accept the argument, would give each of us carte blanche to violate those laws would like, especially when our consciousness belongs to each and every one is different.

There is therefore a major contradiction to say, on the one hand, that the law is fulfilled and, secondly, it can be argued that compliance. And nothing is more worrisome than a cardinal who does not know the minimum legal rudiments. To see that we are doing in the workshops, which these people before they are educated not only in Canon Law.

Where will we get