All these questions are going to grow in prominence in the next few years, as state governments are already considering creating "conscience clause" legislation to protect businesses' right to discriminate against whomever they wish.
In addition, the USCCB has been actively lobbying to allow some entities to opt out of this no-cost coverage for family planning by seeking to create burdensome conscience clause provisions.
When Congress considered the federal Church amendment to create a conscience right to protect individuals or hospitals from being forced to perform abortions shortly after the Roe v. Wade decision, the right to deny contraceptive sterilization was included at the behest of Catholic hospitals with little debate about the public health impact.
If Joyce created the conscience of his race, Mr. Doyle is honorably expanding it.
Now, the image of Connerly as the man whose commitment to colorblindness was created by conscience has been credibly challenged.
In other words, he is trying to create an artificial conscience.
Their campaigns are mostly attempts to create a public conscience, to keep people from committing or accepting violence by making them feel the suffering that ripples out from crime — largely through efforts that can be shared easily by word of mouth or social media.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration reshuffled the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division, an office devoted to allowing people of faith to refuse service to LGBTQ people.
Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God.
For instance, The Museum of Broadcast Communications recounts that for the first episode of the televised version of Alex Haley's Roots, "the writers created a conscience-stricken slave captain, Thomas Davies," played by Ed Asner, "a figure who did not appear in Haley's novel but was intended to make white audiences feel better about their historical role in the slave trade".
