For them now to censure him would be "frankly hypocritical", he said.
Bill Becker, president of Freedom X, an organization tasked with protecting the viewpoints of conservatives, said if the council had chosen to censure Peotter it would be a violation of his religious and free-speech rights.
The proposed six-month suspension was not a slap on the wrist, like a censure would have been, but it would not be viewed as a significant penalty.
A censure of any kind would be a powerful, if merely symbolic, critique of the behemoth.
The Democratic Party's introduction, and most likely passage, of a censure motion against Mr. Abe would be nonbinding.
To know: The House Ethics Committee is asking the full House to vote to censure Representative Charles Rangel, which would be the first sanction against a U.S. legislator by the chamber since 2002.
By Samantha Henig November 19, 2010 To know: The House Ethics Committee is asking the full House to vote to censure Representative Charles Rangel, which would be the first sanction against a U.S. legislator by the chamber since 2002.
"In an ideal world, which this is not, he would be censured by the Californian medical state licensing board, by a medical ethics board, by the American Academy of Pediatrics," he said.
December 20 , 1998President Clinton's advisers begin secret consultations with Senate Republicans on possible compromise deals, in which the president would be censured and perhaps fined, thus avoiding a trial which some experts say could last for up to six months.
