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Why appeal to conscience when you can misrepresent the church instead?

Candidate John F. Kennedy:

If
the time should ever come--and I do not concede any conflict to be remotely
possible--when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or
violate the national interest, then I would resign the office.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:

If I
thought that Catholic doctrine held the death penalty to be immoral, I would
resign. I could not be a part of a system that imposes it.

Mark Silk:

What
[Scalia] has done, then, is make his church's doctrine do the work that Kennedy
assigned to his conscience, and in the process fibbed.

More.

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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