Sentences with phrase «accommodating of religious»

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Professor Chung's speech resurrected the ancient debate over «syncretism» — the degree to which the Christian faith can and should accommodate other religious practices, and whether other faiths have sufficient truth without being troubled by the gospel of Christ.

They have several types of services to accommodate religious preference....

The second unfortunate consequence of the Lemon test is that it calls into question attempts to accommodate the religious needs of religious minorities.

The government should not be permitted to create incentives for religious practice or belief (like giving favored status to religious organizations, as compared to other nonprofits), to facilitate the religious practices of some at the expense of others (like offering vocal prayers in public schools), or to accommodate one religion but not others with similar needs or problems (like limiting draft exemptions to members of traditional «peace churches») Within these guidelines, religious accommodations are fully in keeping with the First Amendment — albeit in conflict with strict separation.

The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a shoreligious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a shoReligious Liberty Commission, in a short video.

«The right to practise one's religious beliefs must accommodate civil society's obligation to provide for the safety of all and, in particular, children's safety from sexual abuse,» the commission wrote in a report released on Monday.

Basically, accommodating religious whims means the rest of us have to change so these others don't have to.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

It will not be easy to stop accommodating Christendom and start accommodating both bothersome faith movements — which are the enemy of complacency — and nettlesome, nonconformist leaders who pursue vision quests and new religious practices with passionate intensity.

But as a result of its willingness to comply with any secular authority which would protect its own religious practice, Christianity ended by accommodating itself through history to everything wicked and degrading in the social existence of human beings.

The state could have accommodated the church and modified their procedures, but they chose to do otherwise, thus removing the church from equal rights to participate in civic matters on account of religious beliefs.

Removal of all headwear is recommended, it said, but the rules are meant to accommodate passengers who may not want to remove the items for religious, medical, or other reasons.

Lawyer Li Guisheng told China Aid a group of his clients have been «accused of being cult leaders, gathering secretly in different regions of Yunnan, doing missionary work, recruiting new members, spreading apocalypse rumors, rebuilding Three Grades of Servant's buildings, accommodating secret gatherings, and fostering new religious leaders».

With political prospects increasingly out of reach, Smolin predicts traditional theists with political interests will be forced to abandon their religious beliefs and accommodate themselves to an amoral, libertarian regime.

If, then, Whitehead's thinking bears this association of the ethical and the religious, can it accommodate the revolutionary impulse which it needs if it is to serve political theology?

In March 2001, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided with the employer, ruling that the employee's religious beliefs could not be accommodated without causing undue hardship to the company.

The legal forms that accommodate religious liberty completely underdetermine the content of the law.

And yet, the very grounds on which these controversies have been fought — arguing for the «scientific» basis of creationism, making use of the «rational - legal» procedures supplied by the modern court system, and drawing on social scientists for «expert testimony» — all point to the considerable degree to which even religious conservatives have accommodated to the norms of secular rationality.

«Although the memo does not overturn the Obama executive order prohibiting sexual - orientation discrimination by government contractors, it signals a hospitable attitude toward accommodating religious - liberty objections by religious organizations in the context of contracts or grants,» he said.

People who think their few years of experience, and access to human knowledge are enough to dismiss the thousands of years of culture and religious beliefs that accommodated development of morality and led man to this democratic point need to challenge their pride and open their mind.

We would never, for example, forbid parents from sending in a home - packed lunch, we typically offer kids a choice of two entrees, and many schools offer non-pork options to accommodate religious dietary restrictions.

Qualified child nutrition professionals will provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that will meet the health and nutrition needs of students; will accommodate the religious, ethnic and cultural diversity of the student body in meal planning; and will provide clean, safe, allergy aware and pleasant settings with adequate time for students to eat.

Our religious school leaders have always gone out of their way to accommodate the needs of our children.

Ensure that school meals provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that meet their health and nutritional needs while accommodating the religious, ethnic, and cultural food preferences of the student body.

Most western states are secular states, even as they accommodate various forms of religious establishment and accommodation.

Because in parts of Europe there have been misguided beliefs that in order to accommodate people from other backgrounds, we must somehow become less religious or less Christian.

Given that religious dietary requirements are recognised and accommodated in the detention centres it does not make sense that medical dietary requirements are not treated with the same level of importance.

The Alliance Defense Fund has released a legal memo defending the right of municipal clerks to refuse to officiate and / or issue licenses for same - sex marriages, arguing the NY law «requires employers to accommodate sincerely held religious beliefs.»

Ghanaians were outraged over the decision of the erstwhile John Mahama administration to accommodate the two in the country as many feared their stay would undermine Ghana's internal security and expose the country to attacks from religious extremists.

The Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, Kwaku Asomah - Cheremeh, has assured the people of the region of his resolve to accommodate all, irrespective of their political or religious affiliation or socio - economic status.

In other words, internet dating sites accommodate Christian singles, Jewish singles, Asian singles, Black singles and many other people of different religious communities.

School leaders must carefully consider reasonable requests to accommodate religious or other beliefs, but weigh this against the aim of creating a unified school ethos or for the safety of pupils.

Today, religious views of all kinds abound in Arlington Heights, and there are plenty of churches to accommodate your specific belief system and great schools for the kids.

Overall, Unholy Night is an accommodating read for any fan of history, religious or otherwise.

It is the intent of The Cooper Union to accommodate reasonably individual student and faculty religious obligations and practices without penalty, based on good faith effort and due notice to those relevantly concerned of the anticipated religious observance date.

On the other hand, its approach towards the balance between religious freedom and non-discrimination is problematic because it does not offer the degree of clarity and guidance that is needed to accommodate horizontal conflicts of rights under the Charter framework.

Schools must consider their obligations to accommodate the religious practices of students to a point of undue hardship.

As such, the Court affirmed a school's obligation to accommodate religious beliefs, as well as a school's role in emphasizing the importance of multiculturalism and promoting tolerance and respect for diversity.

According to the Ontario's Human Rights Commission website, «employers have a duty to accommodate an employee's creed to the point of undue hardship, including by providing time off for religious holidays.»

To accommodate the religious beliefs of marriage commissioners, the province is considering implementing a system similar to the one in Ontario where couples go to a central office instead of contacting an individual commissioner.

15 months after its creation by the Quebec government, and after extensive public hearings in all regions of the province on the issue of how far society should go to accommodate requests for religious and cultural adjustments from individuals from minority groups, the Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences finally released its report and recommendations.

The Ktunaxa claimed that by approving the project the BC government violated the guarantee of religious freedom in section 2 (a) of the Charter and the Crown's duty to consult and accommodate under section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982.

Should the religious beliefs of someone on the public payroll be accommodated at the expense of the human rights of the people they are paid to serve?

While governments in traditional countries of immigration, such as Canada and the United States, perceive their role as one of accommodating all forms of religious expression in a neutral manner, more recent countries of immigration often apply a more restrictive and formally secular approach.

Accommodating Ron's religious needs would not create any of these hardships, according to the Division of Civil Rights.

2015)-RRB- and the reversal of a town zoning board decision that lechis were signs that could not be placed on utility poles under a municipal ordinance, with the Court holding that, since lechis are not even discernible, it is unreasonable not to accommodate the religious practice (East End Eruv Association, Inc. v.

The law requires an employer or other covered entity to reasonably accommodate an employee's religious beliefs or practices, unless doing so would cause more than a minimal burden on the operations of the employer's business.

In the case of Syndicat Northcrest v. Amselem, the court established that the standard to be used in determining whether the religious belief must be accommodated for is subjective.

For instance, if an employee refuses to use a biometric scanner on the basis of a religious belief, then an employer may have to accommodate.

and require private employers to reasonably accommodate the religious practices of employees unless to do so would cause undue hardship to the employer's business.