CORPORATE STANCES OF THE DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST. CATHARINE, KENTUCKY

October 1988 We strongly oppose the death penalty.
January 1989 We support non-cooperation with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act.
October 1989 We support any bill that preserves Health Benefits for people 40 years or older.
September 1990 We support legislation that protects the civil rights of homosexuals, such as nondiscrimination in housing and employment.
January 1991 We oppose U.S. military intervention in the Persian Gulf. At the same time we support a U.N. peace keeping force in the region and economic sanctions (exclusive of food and medicine) against Iraq.
June 1992 We pledge to act on a daily basis in a manner that promotes reverence for our planet by conserving its diminishing resources.
October 1992 We call ourselves and others to acknowledge and seek forgiveness for the racism and ethnocentrism within and among us who are descendants of the European immigrants in the Americas; to recommit ourselves to change structures of domination wherever they occur; to encourage a more accurate teaching of the history of the Americas; to promote multicultural values in our daily prayer. work, food and celebrations; and to disassociate ourselves from the triumphalistic attitudes which degrade indigenous peoples.

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