Sentences with phrase «religious liberty groups»

Religious liberty groups like hers are watching the Hobby Lobby case closely.

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The bishops are distancing themselves from Catholic groups that have expressed satisfaction with the «accommodation» offered to them by the president: Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association, for instance, told reporters she was «pleased and grateful that the religious liberty and conscience protection needs of so many ministries that serve our country were appreciated enough that an early resolution of this issue was accomplished.»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

The Romney / Ryan ticket has courted this group, saying the Obama White House has attacked religious liberty and American values.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

AFFIRM HEREBY that such cooperation must be based on a «Common Word,» requiring that such cooperation must go beyond mutual tolerance and respect, to providing full protection for the rights and liberties to all religious groups in a civilized manner that eschews coercion, bias, and arrogance.

Religious groups across a wide spectrum denounced the mandate, saying it infringed on their religiousReligious groups across a wide spectrum denounced the mandate, saying it infringed on their religiousreligious liberty.

The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.

Groups like the Family Research Council continue to characterize religious liberty and equality for LGBT Americans as an either / or proposition, willfully misrepresenting our nation's historical experience and ignoring the realities of a nation of many faiths and beliefs that has dealt with such questions for centuries.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

Even today, as countless studies show, greater political activity characterizes those Protestant groups with the more «republican» religion; groups asserting «the church should stay out of politics» are those whose Christianity rests less easy with religious liberty or the democratic regime generally.

In April 2016, Christian groups including the Evangelical Alliance said plans for Sunday schools to be forced to register with Ofsted and undergo inspections amounted to an «unjustified restriction of religious liberty».

Two groups of prominent religious liberty scholars (one led by Robin Fretwell Wilson, the other by Douglas Laycock) have written letters (such as this one from Wilson's group) to state legislators and governors considering same - sex marriage bills, imploring them to include various statutory provisions that would afford some protection to religious freedom.

The separation of Church and state and the legal recognition of the principle of religious liberty in both nations have led not only to pluralism through the protection of established religious groups and the encouragement of spontaneity and inventiveness; but have also fostered voluntarism in church organization and made the clergy largely dependent on lay support.

But we also need to reacquaint ourselves with our «grand tradition» of religious liberty, and with an equally grand tradition of political conciliation — of putting the common good of our nation above the special interests of whatever groups we favor.

Religious liberty has very quickly become of intense concern for religious groups across the country, especially for those that will be directly affected by the HHSReligious liberty has very quickly become of intense concern for religious groups across the country, especially for those that will be directly affected by the HHSreligious groups across the country, especially for those that will be directly affected by the HHS mandate.

Carl H. Esbeck, an emeritus law professor at the University of Missouri who gathered the National Association of Evangelicals, the Assemblies of God, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, and other groups for an amici brief, believes that «specific religious - liberty protections» will be needed for churches, religious believers, and religious organizations.

Moral Majority and other groups for what they call «voluntary prayer» in the public schools threatens the religious liberty of the minority that will oppose prayer in general or particular prayers.

Freed this January in a prisoner swap initiated by President Obama, Abedini is now in the United States, where many Christians and religious - liberty groups had prayed and campaigned for his release.

Yet the groups pushing the RFRA want to enact that test into law and leave its interpretation and application to those same «officers of the government» who have thus far shown no preference for religious liberty.

Terming the protections of RFRA as «extreme religious liberty rights,» the Foundation and associated groups go beyond even what the Obama administration requests, asserting not only that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood don't qualify for the law's protections, but rather that RFRA itself is unconstitutional.

Some anti-circumcision groups, however, say the lawsuit's argument for religious liberty is just an excuse to defend old tradition that some frown upon as strange compared with mainstream hospital circumcisions.

Because we know what it is to have our own religious liberties infringed, we are alarmed whenever any religious group's rights are threatened.

Rather, they are interested in protecting the security of their ethnic group and continue to maintain, often with great vehemence, that eternal religious invisibility in our public places is the «price of liberty.»

Furthermore, it is a matter of religious liberty that the rights of religious groups to perform and recognize these unions not be hampered by civil law.

«This is of particular importance when the civil liberties of minority groups are threatened, as they are now by the repressive actions being taken by the Trump administration against LGBT people, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.»

This group has no «constitutional liberty» to impose its religious - specific view of gay people's right to marry on the whole population.

DESPITE strong opposition from American civil liberties campaigners and even religious groups, the FBI can now eavesdrop on phone calls made on digital telephone systems.

Arizona's special education voucher law was struck down by the state courts after a challenge from the teachers union and civil liberties groups, which claimed that the law violated a state constitutional provision barring any public funds from flowing to religious institutions.

The law has been strongly supported by a broad coalition of religious, education, and civil liberties groups, including those representing Christian schools and home - schooling parents.

She has also done research for the anti-voucher group Texas Coalition for Public Schools and the Texas Freedom Network, an organization fighting for religious freedom, civil liberties and stronger public schools.

In April, civil liberties groups in Colorado asked the Colorado Supreme Court to strike down a pilot program that provides public education funds to religious schools.

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