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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Dec 17, 2021
Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org. …
I agree with Phil Lawler’s latest post, Lay Catholics suffer from Church leaders’ silence on conscience rights. In fact, I recommend reading it. But I have never been comfortable with the expression “conscience rights”, a term which most people misconstrue. After all, conscience rights are not baldly absolute in every context: They must be carefully understood.
In United States legal history, “conscience rights” have been invoked primarily as a convenient way out of the dilemma of enforcing laws which a minority of people regard as immoral—that is, these persons have a conscientious objection to something that the law requires of them. Conscience rights, in this sense, work out in the body politic simply by making some provision for a minority position when the State concludes that it would be either imprudent or immoral to force the issue. …
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