For herself, Franklin feels this is a price she may have to accept as the welfare reform bill debate intensifies: "It's a position of moral conscience.
Yet, given the recent commitment by our President (and your Commander-in-Chief) to new troop buildup -- where do we position our "plain" of conscience?
So, given Hamlet's words as a backdrop, you ask, "Where do we position our 'plain' of conscience" as we move forward?
Instead, with the Palestinian uprising against Israel and the American war on Iraq, the younger Mr. Assad has sought to burnish Syria's treasured position as the conscience of the Arabs, lashing out at Western attempts to dominate them.
He actually opposed both same-sex marriage and mandated benefits for same-sex couples, but argued that political parties should refrain from taking official positions on these and other "issues of conscience".
Leiter comes close to taking this position: "The No Exemptions approach to claims of conscience (or at least to claims of conscience that are burden-shifting), religious or otherwise, is the one most consistent with fairness" (130).
Disappointed by the ambivalent position of the Whig Party toward slavery, "Conscience" Whigs held a convention in August 1848 at Buffalo, N.Y.
As one Democratic strategist put it, "lone man of conscience" is "not a bad place to position yourself in the Democratic primary".
This group "occupied a position in American culture akin to secular priests of conscience," added Kevles.
The only humanitarian solution to his position would be to release him and his fellow prisoners of conscience, unconditionally.
"To have sharpshooters in balconies in houses shooting people in the head and neck — for me, I can no longer in good conscience articulate the position of the government to the U.N. authorities," Mr. Alsaidi said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.
