Sentences with phrase «while religious organizations»

Collective advocacy: While religious organizations can't endorse or oppose specific political candidates, they can capitalize on their collective power to advocate for children.

Teachers» unions and Democrats who dominate the Assembly were pleased to beat back the tax credit, while the religious organizations and charter school advocates who supported the measure were tided over with money and changes that will allow more charter schools to open in New York City.

The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain religious terms in its organization's name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization's mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.»

However, a government lawyer said that the pill is not abortive and that — while religious organizations are exempt from the mandate — secular, for - profit businesses are not.

Groups selling filter technologies have often overstated revenue estimates while religious organizations not wanting to legitimize the industry have under - reported their guesses.

Not exact matches

401 (k) plans are generally offered by for - profit companies, while 403 (b) plans are generally offered by non-profit entities, religious groups, school districts and governmental organizations.

Austin, while the list of recognized civil rights varies, activities and actions, including religious practice and organization of the family unit (number of children, marriage) have been a core element since at least the original UN declarations.

While the conclave was not designed to embrace a specifically religious perspective, it was noteworthy that even many of the representatives of secular organizations attributed their interest in aging at least partially to their own churches» influence and traditional support for the elderly.

While there is an exemption for religious organizations, the regulations are so narrowly drawn that the conscience protections apply only to those institutions that primarily employ and serve members of their own faith and seek to inculcate religious teaching.

It is important to realize that, while process theology has recently received considerable attention in both religious and popular journals, this development, though lacking the organization of a movement, has been under way for more than forty years.

It's unreasonable ¯ in fact, it shows a peculiar hostility toward religion ¯ to claim that religious organizations will compromise the public good if they remain true to their religious identity while serving the poor with public funds.

While most kids are probably pre-programmed by their parents to follow the chosen family tradition, many kids are indoctrinated through community programs established by various religious organizations.

While some cults orient themselves around ideology and some around theology (and some around self - discovery, and some around psychoanalysis), and they can thus appear to resemble religious or political organizations, cults actually constitute a phenomenon of their own.

«While the effects of this ruling on churches and religious nonprofits could take years to become fully evident, it is crucial for organizations which oppose same - sex marriage on religious grounds to take proactive steps to prepare for the challenges ahead.»

I grew up as a JW and have since left and gained enough perspective (through lived experience and university study) to understand that the religious organization (while insular) is no more so than any other anti-interdenominational religion of which there are quite a few: Baptists who won't sit down with Methodists.

While exemptions for schools and nonprofits allow them to delegate employee coverage to a third party, theses organizations are requesting the full religious exemption that churches qualify for.

While the evangelical and fundamentalist broadcasters have been successful in raising money, in building large organizations and support services, in utilizing new technologies, and in providing sophisticated religious programming for evangelical viewers, they have not demonstrated any greater capacity or ability to get their message across to the larger television population.

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

It came as no surprise, that in the wake of the recent killing of Inspector Emmanuel Ashlevi while on duty by armed robbers who invaded the police station at Dome, a suburb in the Greater Accra Region, to free their colleagues who were held by the station awaiting trial, the religious unit of the Ghana Police Service has taken to the organization of prayer sessions for divine intervention.

While commending religious bodies and political organizations for their prayers, outpouring love and solidarity during the President's medical trip to London, Governor Sani Bello urged all Nigerians to always be positive and pray for their leaders.

Allen Roskoff, president of the Owles club, said, «While red states fight to pass laws allowing religious discrimination, we provide special monies to bigoted organizations like the Salvation Army, the Catholic Church, and Agudath Israel.»

The non-profit organization is committed to providing the best long - term, quality care, while at the same time, supporting the religious beliefs of its residents and helping them to remain independent and able.

While it did not deem scholarship tax credits generally unconstitutional, the decision, if not overturned on appeal, will prevent religious organizations from participating in similar initiatives nationwide — including a parallel program for corporate donations upheld by an Arizona appellate court just weeks earlier.

First, some Blaine Amendments forbid funding of religious education while others more broadly forbid funding of all religious organizations.

It's been gummed up because of a faith - based protection provision that would allow adoption agencies to receive state funding while turning away prospective parents who don't fit with an organization's religious beliefs.

While guarding Liliana, Alushe is ambushed and killed only to later awaken as an artificial half - demon at the hands of the New Curia, a religious organization with dark ties.

The Tribunal held that, while Christian Horizons was a religious organization, it could not claim the exemption offered by s. 24 (1)(a) because it was not primarily engaged in serving the interests of persons who are «similarly identified — i.e. persons who are adherents to its Doctrinal and Lifestyle and Morality Statements, or indeed, in serving the interests of Christians more generally.

While the C.A. did say (para. 57) that «Canadian courts are still feeling their way through the principles underpinning the connection between civil law... and religious organizations and their internal laws...», the court also said that «a relatively consistent method or pattern has emerged in property disputes» (see paras. 57 - 64).