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Churches would not be required to consecrate same-sex unions, or teachers to promote them (against their conscience); but, as far as the state is concerned, marriage would be gender-blind.
On the contrary, the Cuban government continues to detain prisoners of conscience and to criminalize demands for a society-wide dialogue.
Worse, whenever Moscow persists in its demands, Lukashenko abrogates agreements without a twinge of conscience.
When not, but conscience urges the country to act – against, say, a dictator killing a large number of his citizens – the US should not intervene alone and should use force only if there is a good prospect of success.
It is my deep conviction that the only option is for something to change in the sphere of the spirit, in the sphere of human conscience, in the actual attitude of man towards the world and his understanding of himself and his place in the overall order of existence.
He went only as far as he could bring his conscience, and refused to go further.
Having been offered the freedom to “vote your conscience” on the EU deal, most significant Conservative politicians – with the notable exceptions of Boris Johnson and Michael Gove – have come around to supporting Cameron.
Not surprisingly, they are also the most likely victims of child labor, child marriage, and child trafficking – an unholy trinity that should weigh more heavily on the world’s conscience than it does.
The theatre of politics makes permanent demands on us all, as dramatists, actors, and audience -- on our common sense, our moderation, responsiblity, good taste, and conscience.
Nevertheless, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s description of the Israeli raid on the activists’ boat as “an attack on the conscience of humanity,” which “deserves every kind of curse,” and as a “turning point in history” after which “nothing will be the same,” seems hysterical.
The crisis of the Jewish conscience in the traumatic transition from Holocaust to statehood has not yet been fully overcome.
From the outset of this conflict, it was clear that our Coalition had to go on the offensive against an enemy without country or conscience.
Although economic progress is visible across Romania, and a gradual renewal of a civic conscience through the arrival of democracy has appeared, Romania’s burlesque of a political life – despite its European Union membership – shows how persistent its bad old habits of duplicity, inconsistency, fatalism, inertia, and corruption are.
The problem is that unless there is a viable opposition, the only check on the AKP will be its own conscience and a crackdown by the still secular-oriented armed forces.
Among the guiding principles that the Act established for relations among participating states was “respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the freedom of thought, conscience, religion, or belief.”
The bravery of those who found their social conscience, overcame fear, and stood up to communist dictatorship remains fresh in my memory.
In return, the Cuban regime made a sham gesture by releasing a small number of the prisoners of conscience – mostly those who were tortured and seriously ill – who the regime most feared would die in its notorious prisons.
They should show that they will neither ignore his practices nor neglect the suffering of Cuban prisoners of conscience.
They must eventually confront each other on the field of a free conscience.
Later, he helped to establish the Shared Concern Initiative (SCI), an open and informal group of representatives of various cultures, historical backgrounds, religions, and traditions that sought to prick the world’s conscience whenever and wherever the cause of liberty and justice demanded it.
Perhaps this is the key legacy that Havel has left our world: an active global conscience.
He boldly raised the question of the morality of intervention and the duty of the individual to follow his conscience, and he challenged member states to resolve the tensions between state sovereignty and their responsibility to protect ordinary people.
When the historian Jan Gross published his study establishing that Poles, not Germans, burned alive hundreds of Jedwabne’s Jews, Poland naturally suffered a major crisis of conscience.
He undoubtedly saved the freedoms Gorbachev brought--freedom of choice, speech, the press, freedom of conscience.
This means nothing less than to harken, in our various dilemmas, to the voice that speaks to us from the depths of our conscience.
In a somewhat exalted way, we might say that Europe’s task today is to rediscover its conscience and its sense of responsibility in the deepest sense of the word, not just with regard to its own political architecture but also with regard to the world and its moral dimensions.
We shall do most for the world if we simply do as we are bidden by our conscience.
His conscience would not allow him to bend to Henry’s will.
He was executed in the Tower of London, martyred because of his conscience.
After all, not every politician is widely commended for following his conscience.
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