Sentences with phrase «public freedom of»
The Fox Valley Park District makes every effort to comply with the State of Illinois Public Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which states that all persons are entitled to full and complete information regarding the affairs of government and the official acts and policies of those who represent them as public officials and public employees.
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I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
«Even if the bills are not implemented, it creates a public discussion about discrimination, and that creates the idea that discrimination is important to religious freedom,» says Marieka Klawitter, a professor of public policy and governance at the University of Washington.
Wells Fargo also revealed that it had submitted request for some Valeant's documents under the Freedom of Information Act, which will become public May 24.
«If present public expenditures on schooling were made available to parents [through a voucher] regardless of where they send their children, a wide variety of schools would spring up to meet the demand,» writes Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom.
While it's rare to see CEOs here take a public stand (witness the silence of Toronto's business leaders when the Rob Ford scandals unfolded), a growing number of American executives are stepping into the public spotlight, taking stands on issues like religious freedom, gay marriage and gun control.
That interplay between freedom of businesses to operate as they please, and their legal duties as public accommodations, is at the heart of today's controversy.
Just this week, Will Carty, manager of public policy for Twitter, wrote a blog post praising reclassification as «critical to American economic aspirations and our nation's global competitiveness» with «important implications for freedom of expression.»
But if businesses take advantage of this new freedom, the public probably won't know it, because it's easy for them to legally hide their political spending.
The technology companies have contended that their virtual marketplaces, in which people act as contractors and use their own possessions to provide services to the public at the touch of a smartphone button, afford workers flexibility and freedom.
As the candle of hope for a free and public internet begins to flicker in the winds of corporate takeover, Coin Center represents a vanguard for securing the freedoms of the next evolution of the internet.
They live in a world of entrepreneurs who enjoy their freedom and are not looking to sell their businesses or take them public.
Public Citizen also reports that Ann Donaldson, one of those 12 Jones Day lawyers who joined the Trump administration all at one time on Trump's inauguration day of January 20, 2017, counted among her clients Freedom Partners and the Koch network's data firm, i360.
Today a free market means that predators are free to extort any price from the public, they are free to deregulate, free to lie to consumers, free to exploit, free to load any company they want down with debt, and basically lead (us) to a world of debt peonage... So the whole concept of freedom has been turned upside down by the Chicago school and by the Bush administration.
It's perhaps unsurprising that 56 % of UK respondents didn't feel the government has done enough to educate the public on pension freedoms.
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While judicial review is vital to safeguard our constitutional freedoms, a degree of moral and philosophical discussion flowing from constitutional litigation can not justify the costs that overreaching judicial rights declaration has for public debate and democratic governance.
Freedom of speech ends just short of yelling fire in a public movie theater and praying out load in an airplane cabin.
CNN: Health secretary addresses health care, religious freedom in protested graduation speech In an anticipated and controversial address Friday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius delivered a speech that blended inspirational messages to graduates with a discussion of public policy's tough decisions, including health care and honoring religious freedom.
In our time and place the media will almost always be on the side of those who claim conscientious freedom; they will seldom be able to understand sympathetically a church's need for a magisterial voice to articulate and sustain its public teaching.
The pope insists, as part of his demand for truth, that the Church «has a public role over and above her charitable and educational activities: all the energy she brings to the advancement of humanity and of universal fraternity is manifested when she is able to operate in a climate of freedom.
It is part of America's animated contest of faith, freedom, free speech vs enslavement to the government and silence — exclusion of faith speech from the public arena.
No one infringed on his thought process, so I'm not sure what you're talking about... And there's a BIG difference between exercising one's freedom of speech in a public place, and verbally harrassing one's co-workers in their private business workplace... This guy did the latter...
Republicans always through this into faces of any liberal they deem has gone to far in public discourse: «Freedom of Speech is protected speech, but anything you say will have consequences — sometimes unfavorable consequences.»
That is so because our constituting purpose» to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for a society of freedom and virtue» requires a secure partnership between Christians and Jews.
When the American people can no longer publicly express and give public effect to their obligations to the Creator, it is to be feared that they will no longer acknowledge their obligations to one another ¯ nor to the Constitution in which the obligations of freedom are enshrined.
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:
Freedom of expression is allowing you and anyone to stand up in public places and denounce being gay as terrible for mankind.
At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying....
In one study of a fundamentalist Protestant academy (Bethany Bible Academy), a Jewish intellectual found the Bethany students more tolerant on issues of race, religion and freedom of speech and less concerned with making a lot of money than their public school peers.
In recent political thought, the most considered and provocative discussion I know of the freedom which waits upon public participation is found in the work of Hannah Arendt.
«In the past, they [Syrian Christians] have had great outpouring of piety in the public squares on Easter,» said Nina Shea, director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute.
For all that the neoconservatives have said publicly about their vision of American power, a coherent narrative of the development of their policy has been needed, and Dorrien provides that account impressively He reveals that the purported reasons for the Iraq invasion (defending America from weapons of mass destruction and spreading democracy and freedom) were a mere gloss intended for public consumption.
Far from compromising human freedom, then, the substantive goal of a maximal public world calls for maximal human self - determination.
When I think about the public application of ashes, I have to stretch and strain against the powerful prescriptions to be private, prescriptions which are made more complex by the deepening middle - class commitments to privacy and to the supreme value of personal freedom.
That's your «freedom of religion», but not one student at their graduation should have to feel excluded and that's exactly what public prayer at a tax payer event is doing.
Evrything this man has done has damaged our national security and compromised our freedoms, from suing states who want to initiate simple voter safeguards to working to help the public «schools» usurp the role of child - rearing from parents.
That means opposing the self - contradictory «dictatorship of positivist reasoning that excludes God from the life of the community and from the public order, as well as acknowledging... human rights, and especially the freedom of faith and its exercise».
He also came to oppose the long - established practice of employing chaplains at public expense in the House of Representatives and Senate on the grounds that it violated the separation of church and state and the principles of religious freedom **.
This was done in a nation with a strong established church, so that the freedom enabled by religious toleration at its origins was a freedom of private worship and belief for dissenters, but not quite a freedom of common action in the public square.
The Declaration affirms: «Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance» (Article 18).
He also felt that debate over the famous Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1785 formed the essential background to the First Amendment, and that the Virginia Statute was consciously written to guarantee full participation in public life on equal terms by «the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo, and Infidel of every denomination» (V: 85)
The exercise of rights and freedoms is limited «for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order, and general welfare in a democratic society.»
Yet in the late sixties and throughout the seventies, while continuing to contribute to discussions of hope and freedom, process theologians lagged far behind in the discussion of Christian responsibility for public affairs, especially as these are politically conceived.
Or, most recently, you might have heard the rumor from Bryan Fischer, from Mike Hucakbee or a friend on Facebook, saying that God abandoned the children at Sandy Hook because, though children have every right to pray in public schools, those schools can not sponsor prayer events out of deference to religious freedom.
Second, evangelical Protestants will benefit immensely from listening to Roman Catholic thinkers engaging with the pressing public square issues of abortion, sexuality, and religious freedom.
He thinks energies are best spent recalling America to its founding principles, in hopes of preserving the dwindling space of freedom for Christians in the public square.
In this regard, the most decisive indicators of social righteousness in society are the structural freedom of religion and the ethical dependence on an ecumenically shaped «public theology.»
Technical reason can never tell us about ends, and the public freedom we need is always related to that telos that end in terms of which society as a whole makes sense.
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