Catholic Dads

Example: Lawyer X is asked to take on case Y. If in case Y the lawyer was asked to represent Planned Parenthood or some organization he knew directly acted against his beliefs, he would decline to take the case. But I’m speaking of the narrower issue when a case might touch on a moral or political position the lawyer has. So, he’s asked to represent an arms dealer and write a contract making guns more prevalent, but he is for gun control; he’s asked to represent an illegal immigrant who has a statutory argument that he should be allowed to stay, but he’s against illegal immigration; he’s asked to represent a pornographer’s First Amendment rights, but he thinks pornography is a plague on our society. (This last example seems more of a straightforward issue, somewhat like the Planned Parenthood example, but it is narrow if you think just of the legal issue, which may give him a right to put the stuff out there.)

So, what would you do? Do you decline when something is not squarely in the permissive moral guidelines you establish, or is there a murky area calling for a case-by-case analysis? Thoughts?