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Cruelty to animals, it is said, is often a precursor to graver crimes. So would there not be some usefulness to a registry of individuals convicted of felony animal abuse? Legislators in California want the Golden State to be the first to establish such a record - just as California was the first in the nation to create a registry of sex offenders...
...official to do so. Even some leading conservative Catholics may find they cannot support Burke's latest salvo. When told of the Archbishop's assertion that pro-choice Catholics should not be permitted funeral rites, Princeton professor Robert George was taken aback: "That's a very different, and obviously graver, claim than that with which I would have sympathy. I haven't heard before any bishop say that pro-abortion politicians should not be given a Catholic funeral...
Instead of simply offending, Holocaust denial has much graver effects. It promotes hate and could actually jeopardize the psychological and emotional well being of others in the Harvard community...
...President Obama, in his weekly address on May 2, put it best: "Because we have it within our power to limit the potential damage of this virus, we have a solemn and urgent responsibility to take the necessary steps. I would sooner take action now than hesitate and face graver consequences later." Better safe than sorry - when it comes to diseases, it's as clichéd as washing your hands, and just as smart...
...looked into the eyes of Trent’s mother and felt just the way I did when I read about that Nepalese man charged by a rhinoceros.“I didn’t know if I could do it,” she said, sounding much graver than when she was discussing crocheted swine just a minute ago. “But I thought, it’s Easter. Yes it is. A day of living! Trent would have wanted me to come today. And seeing you here tells me I made the right choice...