The same moral principles and considerations apply to the issue of accepting social security, unemployment insurance or other payments of that kind.
The issue of accepting money from industry is particularly sensitive for membership-based groups like the Sierra Club, whose adherents, like those of Greenpeace, do not trust commercial companies to be good environmental stewards.
On the issue of accepting Israel as an explicitly Jewish state, Erekat privately told Israeli negotiators: "If you want to call your state the Jewish state of Israel you can call it what you want".
Earlier this week Brazilian officials signaled in Rio de Janeiro that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, potentially flanked by the Colombian president, Álvaro Uribe, would raise the issue of accepting Cuba into the Organization of American States at the summit meeting.
We need to realize that who sits on the Supreme Court or having a liberal or conservative government, is not as important as this single issue of accepting or rejecting hate and racism.
There is much more - issues of informed consent, accepting the gender variant person as client rather than having treatment driven by the parents, the archaic developmental models being used by the clinic, the lack of a planned successor to Zucker, the lack of community engagement, etc.
Re "Bush Choice for Labor Post Withdraws and Cites Furor of Illegal Immigrant Issue" (front page, Jan . 10: Instead of accepting personal responsibility for the circumstances that prompted her abrupt decision to withdraw as George W. Bush's choice for labor secretary, Linda Chavez tried to portray herself as a victim of the politics of personal destruction.
Among the 89 people arrested were 49 employees of the federal environmental protection agency, who were accused of accepting bribes to issue timber felling and transportation permits.
In 2001 Cyprus' immigration chief was reportedly jailed for 20 months after being found guilty of accepting bribes to issue work permits for foreign women to work in so-called cabarets with names like White Girls Nightclub and Frolix.
The political scientist Scott Althaus has calculated that a voter with more knowledge of politics will, on balance, be less eager to go to war, less punitive about crime, more tolerant on social issues, less accepting of government control of the economy, and more willing to accept taxes in order to reduce the federal deficit.
