Sentence examples for objection of conscience from inspiring English sources
"You could have an objection of conscience to anything the government wants you to do — pay taxes because they will go to war or to capital punishment, or having your picture on your driver's license," Mr. Marshall said.
He cited what he said was the "galling example" of the "shabby treatment of the Little Sisters of the Poor"; nuns, he suggested, had been punished because they "dared to voice objections of conscience to Obamacare".
"The most galling example is the galling treatment of the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Christian charity that dares to voice objections of conscience to Obamacare," he said to wild applause.
They explained: "We are of the view that once a genuine and serious case of conscientious objection is established, the state is obliged to respect the individual's freedom of conscience".
But it makes a distinction between pacifists who object to joining any army and to any use of force and what it calls cases of "selective objection" or "selective conscience" like Mr. Blanc's.
But Ms. McQuade of the Catholic bishops' conference said any requirement for coverage of contraception could violate the "rights of conscience" of religious employers and others who had moral or religious objections to it.
Franklin asserted that the freedom of conscience provision of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteed this form of conscientious objection.
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