Sentences with phrase «good conscience support»

;... «If you penalize energy use, you destroy wealth, and when wealth is destroyed, the poor are the first to suffer... Some radical environmentalists even say we should prevent the poor from building wealth, thereby saving the Earth... I can not in good conscience support any position that keeps people from reducing mortality and making their lives easier.»

I can not in good conscience support Minnesota's teacher tenure system as it's currently constituted, but that doesn't make the * idea * of tenure unworkable or somehow a bad thing.

I can not in good conscience support the educational policies espoused by you and your Secretary of education, Arne Duncan.

In a phone interview this week, Wong told me: «I decided I could not in good conscience support a product of a person whose views I find abhorrent and knowingly give him money.

I can't in good conscience support President Obama's re-election.

«I don't see how anybody can look at this and in good conscience support it, particularly when so many of our constituents are hurting in so many different ways.»

Thus a Catholic legislator who judges all abortions to be immoral may in good conscience support the decisions of Roe v. Wade, since that ruling is permissive rather than coercive.

Yes, the statement discusses difficult situations in which one might in good conscience support a pro-abortion candidate despite his being pro-abortion.

Not exact matches

Just as some impact investors focus on supporting businesses in the developing world, investors with a conscience would do well to fund minority - owned businesses in the U.S., Bradley argues.

Add it all up, and McCain looks like a candidate whom social conservatives could support in reasonably good conscience.

marriage pledge R. R. Reno writes in «Government Marriage» (December) that he «can't see how a priest or pastor can in good conscience sign a marriage license for «Spouse A» and «Spouse B.»» Then, in support of the Marriage Pledge put forward by....

Every conscientious politician discovers what T. V. Smith has called the deepest theoretical discrepancy in life, that between private conscience and public convenience.2 We must support injustice and profit from special privilege in order to possess power which may make it possible for us to do some relative good.

I can no longer support young earth creationism in good conscience.

Conscious of the suffering of prisoners and well aware that through the centuries many faithful Christians have been wrongfully imprisoned and put to death, Christians have emphasized the importance of visiting prisoners, have campaigned for prison and penal reform and have supported organizations such as Amnesty International that campaigns for prisoners of conscience.

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.

I've been an active member my entire life and I can't support Mitt Romney with a good conscience.

In which your humble scribe devises a mechanism that should allow nearly every Hall of Fame voter, even most of the skeptics, to support Jeff Bagwell's candidacy in good conscience.

But I can not in good conscience and in defence of the Constitution support its Presidential candidate to continue leading the looting of the public purse.

«This is a sad day for Citizens Union that it can not, in good conscience, support any of the candidates for mayor, including the incumbent, who has spent most of his tenure engulfed in troubling ethical issues that continue to swirl around him.

«This is a sad day for Citizens Union that it can not, in good conscience, support any of the candidates for Mayor, including the incumbent, who has spent most of his tenure engulfed in troubling ethical issues that continue to swirl around him,» said Citizens Union Chairman Randy Mastro.

«With good conscience I can't support that, and I would like other gamers to think about this issue as well.»

Rockwell, who won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as a dim cop on a short and normally racist fuse, is funny but couldn't be accused of underplaying, while the somewhat overlooked Harrelson, as the police chief who unexpectedly turns out to be hiding not just a conscience but a tragic secret too, is quietly excellent.

In strong support of Travolta are Nancy Allen, superb as the dim Sally, and perhaps best of all John Lithgow as the vicious killer, who kills without conscience.

There is also a net popularity score for each suggestion, so authors can in good conscience ignore suggestions that don't have widespread support.

If you feel that you might slip, enlist the help of someone who will remind you and support you about your payment responsibilities as well as being your «voice of conscience» that keeps you from making unnecessary and tempting purchases.

The standards provide verification of good practices at deserving zoos and aquariums, and long - overdue assurances that the public can support them in good conscience, as those of us who love animals seek to enjoy and preserve the rich web of life essential to the survival of Mankind — and all the creatures of the Earth.

«Well, we're appealing to their conscience and the integrity of their history, because they exist only because the people of New York have supported Cooper Union for all of these centuries,» he said to eager nods and murmured approbations.

All well informed people with a conscience have ample reason to oppose the coal industry and plenty of evidence to support their stance.