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4 The Secular Circular Newsletter of the Humanist Society of Santa Barbara www.SBHumanists.org MAY 2017 May Program: Jacie Rowe: Final Exit Network Jacie Rowe is the Coordinator for Northern California of the Final Exit Network (FEN), a volunteer organization serving members in all 50 states who are suffering from intolerable medical circumstances, are mentally competent, want to end their lives, and who meet its official, written criteria. FEN is about end of life CHOICES. Jacie received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a concentration in Law and Public Policy from the University of Louisville. He was active in politics to help pass the California End of Life Option act. Among the topics Jacie will address are the End of Life Option Act, institutional support, including hospice, statistics and polling, and the cost of medication and insurance. He points out that studies have shown that places with Death with Dignity laws find the level of hospice care actually improved with the passage of such laws. FEN believes that drawing attention to the way people die results in improved choices all around. When: Saturday, May 20th, 2017 Where: Patio Room, Vista del Monte (Park ONLY in spaces marked "VDM"). Time: Meet at 2:30pm for socializing and light refreshments provided by HSSB. Program begins at 3:00 pm Donation: $2 members/$5 non-members. Students with ID are free. Optional Buffet Dinner: Dinner buffet at Vista del Monte. $25 includes tax and tip. RSVP to Nan Cisney by 12 noon on Thursday, May 18th: [email protected] For More Info: Call 805-769-4772 (769-HSSB) 2 The HSSB Secular Circular -- May 2017 Activities the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United Remember to reserve your place for the buffet States." dinner following the Saturday program on May 20th. The menu is tossed green salad, assorted There is little interest in, or attention to the dinner rolls, chili rellenos, fresh catch of the Presidential oath other than the minute or two day, sweet potatoes, fiesta rice, cauliflower every four years when the Chief Justice is with cheese sauce, banana squash, and rehearsing them for the incoming President. homemade flan. Beverages include red and They are of little import or substance as the white wine, tea, coffee, and lemonade. Cost is President conducts the affairs of state. $25 per person, which includes tax, tip and wine. RSVP to [email protected] no later But what happens if the President-elect is not than 12 noon, Thursday, May 18th. You can believed when he swears to uphold the submit your payment to Nan before 3 p.m. on constitution? If the President-elect has Saturday, before the program begins. If you are demonstrated no reason to give him the benefit paying by check, make it payable to Humanist of the doubt of his sincerity? If the President Society. Please note: It is very important to has shown no understanding of the concepts RSVP for the dinner and then attend it if you explicitly stated in the oath or in the gravity have signed up for it; otherwise, HSSB has to and power implicit in the most imposing job pay for no-shows. title on Earth: President of the United States. Mark it on your calendar! The Annual Formally, nothing. It is presumed that the Summer Solstice Picnic will be June 17th at President means what he says when he recites Stowe Grove Park, Goleta. We will be having a the oath. Just as we give deference to those catered lunch, games, and plenty of time to who take the oath for any national office on socialize with like-minded Humanists. Further down through state, county, city and other local details will be in the June issue of The Secular offices, we assume that all public office holders Circular. have the best intentions in mind when taking the oath. To act otherwise would be to simply invite anarchy. The electee takes the oath, then Welcome New Members! assumes the office and proceeds to execute his/her duties. Susan Clark, Santa Barbara Obviously in writing this I have Donald Trump in mind. He has taken the oath of office and is President’s Column: now our President. But I believe that there is On Oaths little, if any, reason to think he meant what he Roger Schlueter said or even deeply understood the implications of the oath. His behavior in the The words of the oath of office for the years leading up to his 2016 campaign and Presidency of the United States, as required by especially during that campaign suggests a man Article II, Section One, Clause 8, of the United who cares little about the truthfulness of his States Constitution are as follows: statements and is not diligent with following through with those commitments that he does "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I make. will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to I think the implications of this for the current The HSSB Secular Circular -- May 2017 3 President will be immense. In fact, we are now it can in private industry. If staff at all levels seeing how distrust in the word of the feel that their boss is acting to impair the very President is having an impact on the work of agency they head, rebellion in the form of leaks his whole Administration. But eventually, the is an inevitable outcome. bigger question for the country will focus on the effect of dishonesty on the Office of the Finally, relations with the press are contentious President for future Administrations. in an unhealthy manner. Of course, media should be skeptical of any administration but To be sure, not everyone thinks the President is the evidence that this Administration gives dishonest. Polls show 43 percent of Americans little effort to get things right began the very approve of President Trump and his honesty is first day in office when the White House Press often cited for such support. Only 3% of Trump Secretary Sean Spicer asserted in the face of voters now say they would change their vote. irrefutable evidence that Trump has the largest As an aside, that is one of the most amazing inauguration crowd ever. Subsequent lies have political statistics I have ever seen. But I think poisoned press relations so badly that one it is fair to say that a very large percentage of commentator called Trump’s actions “un- influential people, both in the federal American.” government itself and in the media, do not find the President to be trustworthy. In summary, Donald Trump is indeed our President. But the widespread belief that he One area where the usual deference to does not take his oath of office seriously has Presidential power is lacking is in the judiciary. degraded his ability to do the work of America Consider how many rulings have issued a stay that needs to be done. But what might be even or temporary restraining orders on the more damaging in the long run is the proposed Muslim “ban.” Some of the deleterious effects he might have on the Office approximately nine stays have been issued of the President. Will dishonesty become the within days of the hearing of the case. This lack norm? Can willful lying be allowed to prevail? of judicial deference comes in the face of clear Will incompetence and ignorance become Presidential statutory power to define acceptable? immigration policy. The 9th Circuit (whose jurisdiction includes California) pointedly Will we be able to trust our President when he slammed Administration attorneys by stating, takes the oath of office? I don’t know, which is “There is no precedent to support this claimed a very sad state of affairs. unreviewability, which runs contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy.” This is a court giving short shrift to Presidential authority. The current Administration is leaking insider information to such an extent that his staff have taken extraordinary steps to try to stem the flow of bad news. This is a sign is disloyalty to the President because many, many federal employees don’t trust him or, worse, don’t trust the people he has put in power to direct their efforts. Loyalty in the White House or federal agencies cannot be demanded in a manner that 4 The HSSB Secular Circular -- May 2017 April Speaker: Dr. Ali Rizvi would not have defended those like Voltaire Secularism, Science and Muslim who were not respectful of religion in the past. This is the wrong side of history. Reform Robert Bernstein The Muslim world has a difficult relationship Dr. Ali Rizvi filled the Faulkner Gallery with his with secularism. For us, secularism connotes courageous talk on Secularism, Science, and individual freedom. In the Muslim world, it Muslim Reform. He was born in Pakistan and connotes Western interference. Secularism is later lived in Canada where he earned a associated with dictators: Khadafy, Hussein, Masters degree in biochemistry. He is a trained Mubarek, and Assad. Iran had elected a liberal pathologist who later switched his career to secular leader, Mohammed Mossadegh, in the Medical Communications. 1950’s. The US CIA overthrew him and installed the Shah. Rhetoric about freedom and Dr. Rizvi is concerned that liberals have an democracy are seen as empty. Islamophobia phobia. They fear being labeled Islamophobic. Islam is an identity in Muslim minority countries. It is a religion in Muslim majority countries. In Muslim majority countries, it is a tool for censorship, clothing mandates, domestic violence and punishing gay people.
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