Sentences with phrase «issue of conscience»

«We recognise these are issues of conscience which will be given free votes in parliament,» the letter adds.

If the head of state could again happen to be a Catholic, and if Mr. Ratzinger completes a hard - right turn of the office he holds, would we want to have a monarch deal with issues of conscience of the kind: push my country towards conforming to Catholic dogma, abdicate or risk my soul?

I always find it irritating how a certain breed of leftie tries to turn issues of conscience into political caricature - by their very nature certain issues transcend political association (I know you will deny this was your intention, Sunder, but the approach of the «progressives» on this is too consistently crude for this to be an isolated coincidence).

Nominated for the Best Documentary Academy Award, The Restless Conscience documents a little - known story of the Holocaust - the resistance to Hitler within Nazi Germany - illuminating crucial issues of conscience and will.

The value of a Christian approach to issues of conscience is that they permit those who disagree still to have a place in our society, subject to the due limits of public order.

Issues of conscience, responsibility, freedom and obedience are discussed in the light of the situation in Germany when this book was written.

Neither Labour nor the Conservative party has an official position on hunting - all the votes of recent years have been free votes, as hunting is regarded as an issue of conscience.

That is an issue of conscience and not discrimination.

The move will increase pressure on Nick Clegg to give his MPs a free vote on the issue, something normally confined to issues of conscience.

However, he also stressed he felt it was «an issue of conscience» and that a free vote should be allowed on this issue.

It's a speech we long to hear politicians give, where they lose the script and speak eloquently from the heart on the correct side of an issue of conscience.