Sentences with phrase «u.s. women religious»

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When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Women identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4 % of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3 %, Jewish women account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortWomen identifying themselves as Protestants obtain 37.4 % of all abortions in the U.S.; Catholic women account for 31.3 %, Jewish women account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortwomen account for 31.3 %, Jewish women account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortwomen account for 1.3 %, and women with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortwomen with no religious affiliation obtain 23.7 % of all abortions.

It's been my experience that religious zealots of all creeds, but here in the U.S. mostly white Christians, are the first ones to throw women, children, old people and the disabled under the bus financially so they can grab bigger tax breaks for themselves.

Everything changed after the Vatican publicly scolded The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella group for U.S. nuns, for allowing «radical feminist themes» to go unchecked a conferences and in their literature.

The LCWR (which does not represent the views of 80 % of American Nuns, it is an association of religious orders that include 80 % of women religious in the U.S., but that does not mean that all of those nuns / sisters agree with the shenanigans of the LCWR, in fact most probably don't) brought this on itself and it needs to be reformed.

At the Vatican, Sisters Pat Farrell and Janet Mock, president and executive director respectively of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, sat down with Cardinal William Levada, head of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the church's doctrinal watchdog group, and Archbishop Peter Sartain of Seattle, who is charged with bringing the nuns back in line with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Vatican.

Well, that's because the Supreme Court doesn't much like it, determining more than 100 years ago that polygamy was «an offence against society» (Reynolds v. U.S.) and compared it to «murders sanctified by religious belief, such as human sacrifice or the burning of women on their husbands» funeral pyres,» or so writes lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer.

In Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 13 - 1144, the Third Circuit rejected a religious - based constitutional challenge to the act's provision requiring companies to offer health insurance that covers contraceptives for women.

CURRENT RESEARCH: MASTER»S THESIS «African - American Religious Resistance and the Politicization of God: From Slavery Through the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements» Community / Voluntary Involvement Association of Black Women Historians — 2011 to Present National Action Network — 2011 to Present National Congress of Black Women — 2011 National Council of Negro Women — 2011 to Present Beauregard Parish Mayor's Youth Council / Collegiate Advisor — 2010 to Present (NAACP) / Youth Leader (Beauregard Parish)-- 2008 to Present Colonel Willie Banks U.S. Representative / Campaign Manager — 2008 Kerry Anderson Judicial / Campaign Committee — 2008 Martha O'Neal Judicial / Campaign Committee — 2008 Councilwoman Jonnie Mango / Campaign Manager — 2003 & 2007

The executive order directs the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Treasury, and Labor to consider issuing policy that would allow employers, schools, and other entities to refuse to cover women's preventive health services, including birth control, in their insurance plans on the basis of religious or moral objection.