Corporate Stance

Of Great Bend

Dominicans

 

1999

Oppose Death Penalty

 

2000

Kinship With and Reverence for earth

 

2006

Support Nuclear Disarmament

The Dominican Sisters of Great Bend will plan and support efforts of all people of good will to immediately begin the lock down, reduction, and elimination of nuclear weapons as well as the making of new materials for nuclear weapons and the testing of nuclear weapons.  We will oppose any chance that a nuclear weapon can come into the hands of anyone wishing harm to another.

Read about issues related to nuclear disarmament at the FCNL website, and the Faithful Security website.

WHEREAS, we, as religious people, believe human life to be sacred and the earth beloved;

WHEREAS, we stand witness to the triumph of life over death, love over hatred, and hope over fear;

WHEREAS, humanity has lived in the shadow of nuclear weapons for sixty years too long;

WHEREAS, the nuclear weapons danger has grown recently due to the risk of terrorists acquiring such weapons, the spread of weapons capability to North Korea and beyond, and efforts in the US to develop new nuclear weapons and lower the threshold of nuclear use;

WHEREAS, we case a cold eye on the history of nuclear weapons, and see with utter clarity their indiscriminate destructive power and their resulting legacy of terror;

WHEREAS, our country cannot rightly seek to halt the spread of nuclear weapons while at the same time developing new weapons capabilities of our own;

WHEREAS, we have stood by too silently as our fellow citizens have been gripped by a kind of fatalism, unable to believe that eliminating nuclear weapons is possible;

WHEREAS, we, as religious people, vow to no longer remain silent;

WHEREAS, we stand with scientists and military leaders who believe that eliminating nuclear weapons will make our country and the world safer;

WHEREAS, the first step to eliminating nuclear weapons is to develop a detailed plan for how to lock down, reduce and eliminate such weapons;

WHEREAS, there is no better time to begin than now;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Dominican Sisters of Great Bend call on the U.S. government to lead the way for the global abolition of nuclear weapons by immediately making a plan for how to lock down, reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons in a step-by-step process with ever increasing verification.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that until this plan is developed and implemented, the Dominican Sisters of Great Bend will work with all people of goodwill to ensure that there will be no new nuclear weapons, no new materials for nuclear weapons, no testing of nuclear weapons, and no chance that a nuclear weapon can come into the hands of anyone wishing harm to another.

Sunflowers: The Symbol of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons

By David Krieger