An Election, Citizenship, and Expectations

I had quite a bit to say this morning, mostly about voting and the November 6 election:

• Happily, the American national election
  will be over by next weekend
  • "America's Election, Religious Freedom, and
    Other Annoying Topics"
    (November 4, 2012) 8:00 a.m.
    • Politics
    • Being Loud
    • Ethics and Other Threats to
      Government Leaders
    • Basically Simple
• Sometimes being a good citizen means
  not agreeing with the folks in charge
  • "Being a Good Citizen"
    (November 4, 2012) 9:00 a.m.
    • Citizenship, Catholic Style
• My hopes and expectations for America,
  links to a resource list
  • "An Objective Moral Order' "
    (November 4, 2012) 10:00 a.m.
    • America isn't Perfect
    • Voting Smart: Resources and Posts

Voting is important. So is understanding issues, and having a sensibly-formed conscience.

Tolerance is important, too, and that's another topic or two.

I plan to be back tomorrow morning with a post about formal cooperation, material cooperation, "life unworthy of life," and American culture.

Meanwhile, here's another list of posts:

• Conscience
  • "Conscience, Natural Law, and Religious Liberty"
    (July 4, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Right, Wrong, and Crazy
    • Long Hair, Music, and Me
    • Hypocrisy's Out: So is Stupidity
  • "Love and Intelligence, Faith and Reason"
    (April 30, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Conscience, Science, and the Golden Rule
    • "Obedient to the Truth"
  • "Obedience, Yes: Blind Obedience, No"
    (March 12, 2012)
  • "Having Good Judgment isn't Being Judgmental"
    (October 12, 2011)
    Particularly
    • Behavior, Arrogance, and Getting a Grip
  • "Time-Sharing a Conscience Won't Work"
    (July 6, 2010)
    Particularly
    • One Conscience for Church, Another for your Job?
    • Conscience? Catholics Have - You Guessed it - Rules
    • Moral Conscience is Something You Do
• Tolerance
  • "9/11, Religion, and Assumptions"
    (September 11, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Religion, Killing, and Assumptions
  • "Diversity in Unity: Two Millennia and Counting"
    (April 18, 2012)
    Particularly
    • "...From Every Nation, Race, People, and Tongue..."
  • "'The Jesus-Eating Cult of Rick Santorum' and
    'America - Love It or Leave It' "
    (February 29, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Anti-Catholicsm: a Fine Old American Tradition
    • Love: Simple, not Easy
    • Hopeful About America's Future
  • "Freedom of Speech: Bothersome, but Valuable"
    (January 27, 2012)
    Particularly
    • McCarthyism, Political Correctness, and Deposed Autocrats
    • It's Different, When You're In Charge
  • "Separation of Church and State, Assumptions, and Fear"
    (September 2, 2011)
    Particularly
    • The Establishment Clause, and Fear of Religious People
    • Freedom of Religion: For Everybody
• Politics
  • "Morality, Wisdom, and Getting a Grip"
    (June 3, 2011)
    Particularly
    • Morality isn't Just About "Morality"
    • Nice Hair isn't Important: Wisdom is
    • So is Morality
  • "The Catholic Church, Rules, and American Law"
    (August 22, 2010)
    Particularly
    • A Political Candidate at a Meet-and-Greet - at a Church?
  • "Pro-Life? You May be a Dangerous Domestic Terrorist! MIAC Says So"
    (March 23, 2009)
  • "Conservative? Liberal? Democrat? Republican? No, I'm Catholic"
    (November 3, 2008)
  • "Life: It's a Single Issue, and an Important One"
    (November 2, 2008)
• Life
  • "Alpha Centauri, Freedom, and Me"
    (October 19, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Life, Liberty, and Elections
  • "Wisconsin: Dead Sikhs; Disrupted Lives"
    (August 5, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Seven Unnecessary Deaths
    • Murder, Faith, and Freedom
  • "Curing the Sick, Helping the Poor; Yes:
    Killing the Innocent; No"
    (June 24, 2012)
    Particularly
    • 'Human Beings are People,' and Other Counter-Cultural Ideas
    • Human Life is Sacred: All Human Life
  • "Being Catholic: Within Reason"
    (April 5, 2012)
    Particularly
    • Rules, Fun, and Killing the Innocent
  • "Capital Punishment: Killing Those Who Deserve to Die"
    (October 2, 2008)
    Particularly
    • 'By the Power Vested in Me by the Supreme Court, Rise?!'