Sentences with phrase «conscience vote»

But, because I could not in good conscience vote to shut down the state I voted for the emergency expenditure bill.

New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian remains tight - lipped about her position on an upcoming conscience vote on new legislation that would allow terminally ill New South Wales residents to end their lives with medical assistance, the SMH reported.

So can a Catholic in good conscience vote for a pro-choice candidate?

The partial concession to calls for conscience votes comes as religious leaders are warned not to inflame or distort the debate surrounding the use of hybrid embryos and other updates to fertility and embryology legislation.

Still others lean a certain way, but to validate themselves as independent and ease the guilt in their own conscience they vote the minor line.

«We can not in good conscience vote for a capital plan without the proper procurement in place,» Abrahams said.

«I can not in good conscience vote to add more to the already massive $ 20 trillion debt,» Paul said.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

By contrast, a «conscience vote» is one in which parliamentarians may vote as they like (for reasons of conscience, or what they deem political expedience, or both).

Editorial from The Salvation Army Newspaper The War Cry for 5th April 08 Headlines of a prime ministerial change of mind on allowing Labour MPs a conscience vote when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill goes before the Commons next month have focused on one issue - animal - human hybrid embryos.

At a special conference today in Maghera, the SDLP have allowed their members and representatives a conscience vote on the issue of abortion.

«The Log Cabin Republicans announced Tuesday that the GOP's New York leadership in both the state senate and assembly are going to allow Republican legislators to make «conscience votes» on Gov. David Paterson's marriage - equality bill rather than pressuring party members to vote against it, giving the legislation a much stronger likelihood of picking up Republican votes in both chambers.

The administration of the Northern Territory did legalise euthanasia, but the law was over-ruled by the Federal Parliament (in a «conscience vote») in what must have been one of the most undemocratic acts ever passed by any parliament anywhere in the world.

Back in the day, it used to be claimed as one of the glories of the Liberal and National Parties that their MPs had freedom to vote as they chose, while Labor MPs were bound by Caucus solidarity, except in the case of an explicit «conscience vote», which has been traditionally confined to issues of (sexual) morality.

(2) That if the Bill is introduced in the Senate, Party Leaders should allow Senators a conscience vote.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott put an end this week to hopes for marriage equality this year in Australia, with the decision by the Coalition party room to not allow a conscience vote on the iss... Read more