Sentences with phrase «civil rights church»

Rangel was found guilty of 11 counts of ethics violations on Tuesday and, in response, the leaders rallied in support of the Democrat Senator in front of the «Civil Rights Church,» breaking spontaneously into a somber rendition of the protest song «We Shall Overcome.»

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In Guatemala in the mid-1990s, after a civil war that had lasted three decades, Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi mobilized the Catholic Church to conduct its own unofficial truth commission that uncovered over 14,000 human rights violations through a unique mode of investigation that supported victims pastorally.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

Those hateful times produced the enfranchisement of blacks (it took too long but the churches led the anti-slavery and the Civil Rights crusades).

I would be lying if there weren't issues in the past regarding the priesthood, however the church has always been an advocate for civil rights and has never thought that blacks were cursed.

Joining the Catholic Church merely out of an affection for morality is like joining the Nahzee [sic] Party because of one's affection for order and uniforms: you can get all of it elsewhere, and your participation only makes one complicit in a variety of hate crimes, and physical and civil rights abuses.

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

Since when has the Catholic church concerned itself with any other civil rights besides the right of people to be deceived by religion?

5, in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, following the lead of the Second Vatican Council's Decree on the Pastoral Office of Bishops in the Church, states that, «In the future, no rights and privileges of election, nomination, presentation, or designation of bishops are granted to civil authorities.»

But nowhere does he even mention the fact that in other important sections the book evaluates work of the American Catholic Bishops, statements from several mainline Protestant churches, and publications of M. Douglas Meeks, Max Stackhouse, Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Novak, and several civil rights reformers, including Jesse Jackson.

Again and again, Charles hammered home the point that it is not necessary to oppose gay civil rights on Christian principle; but it is necessary to show love and acceptance, because the church has the responsibility of welcoming and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with all people.

They also remembered the spiritual power of the [civil rights] meetings,» especially the singing, with a passion and feeling rooted in the black church.

As more states embrace marriage equality and civil rights for LGBT people, how do you think the conversation regarding their inclusion in the church will change?

One of the ways we do this is by saying that the black church was all about civil rights when the reality is that it wasn't.

We have been deeply involved in movements for abolition, suffrage, civil rights, economic and environmental justice, and now we are at the forefront of the movement in the church for LGBTQ inclusion.

When such a claim is made and when homosexual activity is consequently condoned, or when civil legislation is introduced to protect behaviour to which no one has any conceivable right, neither the Church nor society at large should be surprised when other distorted notions and practices gain ground, and irrational eruptions increase.»

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

I really struggle with concerns that participating in a church community that restricts the roles of women in leadership, or that actively campaigns against the civil rights of gays and lesbians, makes me complicit in those activities.

No church has the right to take away my civil rights.

The idea had been Martin Luther King's, at least officially, but Pastor Neuhaus was close to the arduous, difficult civil rights work being done in Bedford - Stuyvesant (the Movement was discovering that Northern neighborhoods had an entirely different, more hardened, multiethnic toughness than Southern cities) and it was my guess that Richard, as much as anybody, was the actual dynamo and idea man behind Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, along with William Sloane Coffin, then the pastor of Riverside Church.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

due to some crazy religious beliefs out there in the world i.e. marrying off young children and marrying genetic kin, the government can't ever allow religion to dictate marriage policy, so have your ceremonies and deny same - gender couples to marry in your church but bluntly stated your crying and foot - stomping will accomplish nothing, marriage isn't a religious thing it is a civil rights and equality thing, thus if the religious win by denying same gender cuples their civil rights to equal treatment under the law, then don't be surprised when others use those same grounds to deny you your rights under the law.

He supported racial equality and civil rights and marched in Montgomery with Martin Luther King Jr., a former auditor in his courses in church history.

Why, just out in my home state of California... the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints (Mormons) and... the Catholics, decided to get together and pour millions of dollars into California to defeat, proposition 8, which is... about 2 people of the same gender being able to marry and have the same civil rights under the law as hetero - married couples.

When the bishops of Athens and Jerusalem turned deaf ears to struggles of social and moral importance, Jakovos committed the American Orthodox church to the black civil rights movement and marched with Martin Luther King, Jr., in Selma, Alabama.

Of course, we will not gain the rights and benefits (or suffer the losses — I have been part of «religious» weddings conducted by churches for elderly couples who did not want to lose retirement benefits if they had a marriage recognized by the state) of a civil marriage.

One issue was the church's visible participation in the dominant political issues of the day notably the struggle for civil rights for minorities and the protests against the Vietnam war.

It is revealing, however, that many who did join churches and synagogues in the 1950s were quick to leave them once their children had grown up, once Vatican II changed the way of Catholic worship, once the Civil Rights Movement put on display the un-religious practices of many of America's mainline churches.

There are a lot of things to be very «taught» about; seperation of church and state, civil rights, women's rights, scientific discovery, environmental issues, ect.

Logically, it is difficult to see why the gay rights agenda should stop at the door of the church; churches have already been sued for violating the civil rights of members censured for practicing homosexual sodomy.

At the height of the watershed civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, as the battle in the streets turned in favor of the demonstrators, a jubilant Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed an overflow crowd at St. Luke's Baptist Church and saluted those who had braved police dogs and filled the city's jails.

As Phelps» daughter reminded me, there is a venerable American history of religious protests against the coercive power of the federal government, running from the anti-slavery and female suffrage advocacy of nineteenth - century evangelicals to the civil rights agitation of rabbis and members of the black church.

Perhaps the most effective mobilization of church power for social change in recent decades has been on the part of black churches in the south in support of the civil rights movement.

It helps one to conceptualize women's struggles for «civil rights» in the church and for our theological authority to shape Christian faith and community as an important part of women's liberation struggles around the globe.

Dr. King began his civil rights crusade as pastor of a local church, and some of the key people in Clergy and Laity Concerned have been local pastors.

They argued that in the 19th century the church rightly condemned the understanding of religious freedom that was based on continental liberalism, but that in the 20th century the church could accept religious liberty, understood as a civil right of immunity under a limited constitutional government.

On virtually every issue that consumed its postwar energies — from civil rights to feminism and gay rights — the mainline churches have been vindicated by elite opinion.

@Bill Deacon, If churches were «sovereign» then they wouldn't need 501 status nor would they need to follow labor laws, civil rights, etc...

Not unlike the LDS church which stated Black men could never be leaders, until too much pressure from civil rights forced them to change (the same for plural marriage).

For such converts, even during peaceful times, membership in the church meant loss of family and property and other civil rights.

, I don't think in my lifetime I will have to worry about that question coming up in the Catholic church, but gay people should have the right to marry in a civil ceremony in all 50 states as I do.

At the height of the watershed civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, as the battle in the streets turned in favor of the demonstrators, a jubilant Martin Luther King, Jr., addressed an overflow crowd at St. Luke's Baptist Church and saluted those who had braved police dogs and filled the...

Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.

(2) His church (the LDS Church) does not oppose civil unions, at least limited ones (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705260852/LDS-official-lauds-work-for-Californias-Prop-8.html?pg=2: «in general, the church «does not oppose civil unions or domestic partnerships,» that involve benefits like health insurance and property rights&rachurch (the LDS Church) does not oppose civil unions, at least limited ones (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705260852/LDS-official-lauds-work-for-Californias-Prop-8.html?pg=2: «in general, the church «does not oppose civil unions or domestic partnerships,» that involve benefits like health insurance and property rights&raChurch) does not oppose civil unions, at least limited ones (http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705260852/LDS-official-lauds-work-for-Californias-Prop-8.html?pg=2: «in general, the church «does not oppose civil unions or domestic partnerships,» that involve benefits like health insurance and property rights&rachurch «does not oppose civil unions or domestic partnerships,» that involve benefits like health insurance and property rights»).

Mr. Walmsley, rector of St. Paul's Church (Episcopal) in New Haven, Connecticut, served for ten years as director of the Episcopal Church's national program in the field of social action and civil rights.

Despite the practical resistance to the civil rights struggle on the part of numerous Protestant congregations, especially in the South, most national and regional church bodies were supportive of the extension of equal rights in this way.

The second sibilating sound in my title refers to the least avoidable theme in American religious history: separation, as in the (Jeffersonian) «separation of church and state,» or the (Madisonian) «line of separation between the rights of religion and the civil authority.»

Oh, by the way, the Civil Rights movement was born in churches!!

one day when it becomes mainstream that feminist / LGBT rights are just as important and equal to other civil rights, one mormon dude with «divine connection» with god will come out and say «god came to his dreams and told him those rights are just as important and the church will CHANGE its UNCHANGEABLE doctrine of truth»

For West, the presence of intact, hard - working families and the network of clubs, churches and sports leagues made segregation easier to bear and gave him the education, vision and self - confidence to join the civil rights movement as a young adult.