CITIZENSHIP CORE VALUES

1. Faith in Almighty God

It is true that our faith is in God. But we do not properly know the God we should believe in or know how to believe in Him unless He tells us in His word. This is why Paul says in Romans 10:17

, "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Biblical faith is not an "unquestioning belief that does not require proof or evidence" (Webster's New World Dictionary). It is full confidence in God's word. FAITH accepts God's word (His promises and His warnings) as FACT and acts accordingly. Since there are many evidences that the word of God is true, this is not a blind leap of faith. It is rather an intelligent, holy reaction to the wondrous words of God.

2. Respect for Life

Pro-life

Respect for Life is an advocate for human life. All life deserves respect, and should not be created if it won’t be respected.

Pro-family values

We are all members of the same family—the human family. Respect for Life honors everyone’s choices in defining their families, regardless of their personal orientations.

Right to life

All of us have a right to live until we die. Millions of people have been born and are not yet living—they are dying. Until all who are alive today are truly living, we have no right to create more lives.

Respect for non-human life

Just as we respect others only after we respect ourselves, we as a species will give more respect to life other than our own as we gain more respect for human life.

3. Value for Order

Underlying all forms of credit and discredit are the orders of value that can be found in individuals, groups of people and nations. In part, these orders of value are a system of binary oppositions, that define what is good and bad, or desirable and undesirable, of high status and low status, or important and unimportant. The basic opposition of good or bad, or of highly valued versus devalued or negatively valued, can be used as a general description of what all the oppositions come down to, although plus and minus might work as well. In every case, one side, which is placed, here, on the left, defines what is valued, and the other side, which is put on the right, defines what is devalued and negatively valued.

4. Value for Work

The unemployment rate is higher than in the past and for many companies, business isn’t exactly booming. The best way to keep your job is to show your employer that you are so valuable that they simply can't live without you.

5. Concern for Family & Future Generation

I agree that family will always impact generations to come.  Hopefully, the influence of race will begin to dwindle and eventually disappear.  Culture will always be a part of who we are, but race doesn't necessarily dictate culture.  I read an article about how the human race will eventually be one race.  One day we will no longer be able to distinguish one race from another because we will all be a big mix of the various races that once were.  Personally, I like that idea.  I think it would be nice to be influenced by the culture and family only.  In reality, race will continue to influence future generations until we, as a people, find a way to do away with prejudice and racism.

6. Value of Love

Love is the expression of one’s values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. Your morality demands that you divorce your love from values and hand it down to any vagrant, not as response to his worth, but as response to his need, not as reward, but as alms, not as a payment for virtues, but as a blank check on vices. Your morality tells you that the purpose of love is to set you free of the bonds of morality, that love is superior to moral judgment, that true love transcends, forgives and survives every manner of evil in its object, and the greater the love the greater the depravity it permits to the loved.

7. Value of Freedom

The value of freedom cannot be overstated. It's the foundation that gives all of us who live in western democracies -- people of faith and no faith alike -- the ability to live as we choose.

Especially during times like these, it is critical to remember that for many people in the world freedom is not a given. It is a gift, and those of us who enjoy it must protect it with all we have.

8. Value of Peace

Peace has always been among humanity's highest values--for some, supreme. Consider: "Peace at any price."1 "The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war."2 "Peace is more important than all justice."3 "I prefer the most unjust peace to the justest war that was ever waged."4 "There never was a good war or a bad peace.

9. Value of Truth

Truth is a quality or characteristic, which is common to every valid statement. To put it in different words: truth is that which makes something (anything) real. And making something real means causing it to exist and keeping it in existence. As this is a direct activity of God, (it is HE who keeps things in existence), truth is important IF one desires to learn about God. And what we can know about God must be true; otherwise we believe lies and/or deception. And if we do this, then our relationship with God is not real, but false.

10. Value of Justice

Justice is about fairness. Fairness should be devoid of self-interest and bias. Thus, it would be irrational (not to mention counter-productive) to practice law as means of vengeance.

11. Unity

We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.

12. Equality

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. -Carl Shurz

13. Respect for Law and Government

Respecting the law and government means not breaking the rules of the land. It means upholding law and order as stipulated in the constitution.

14. Patriotism

is, generally speaking, cultural attachment to one's homeland or devotion to one's country, although interpretations of the term vary with context, geography and political ideology.

15. Promotion of Common Good

Every person is created in the image and likeness of God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit: the perfect community. To be fully human, then, we must learn to live in community with others and seek what is called the common good. The common good can be defined as the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily. There are many aspects to the common good, such as access to health care, education, proper housing, work, adequate food and water. The common good is a dynamic concept. As social conditions change and moral awareness grows, the common good evolves as well.

16. Concern for Environment

From water pollution to global warming, environmental issues affect every person, animal, community, and nation on the planet. As increasing evidence supports the devastating effect humans have on the environment, more people are taking steps to protect the environment and educate others about environmental problems.