Sentences with phrase «against religious bodies»

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Male and female bodies being forced to provide contraception and abortion pills against their religious convictions, females (Sebelius) rules

Treating his body with respect and in accordance with his religious practices also demonstrates to the world that we are not against Islam.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The divine was driven out of nature not to turn nature into a technological instrument, but rather to make it the habitation of the devil; the religious «man» should shun it and flee from it in order to save «his» soul for a higher spiritual realm outside of and against the body and the visible, created world.

«The old restrictions forced religious bodies to discriminate against same - sex couples, even when they didn't want to.»

The Member of Parliament for Asawase Constituency, Muntaka Mubarak, has cautioned against government's plan to give more control of mission schools back to the religious bodies.

Mike Fox describes a 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding Costco's dress code: The court upheld «Costco's dress policy against a challenge by an employee who argued her right to wear her eyebrow piercing was required by her religious beliefs as a member of the Church of Body Modification.»

Before a public body can take disciplinary action against a public sector employee who fails to comply with the restriction on wearing a religious symbol or clothing, the employer must remind the employee of her or his obligations and encourage compliance.

Moreover, while the majority of the court recognized that it engaged the section 15 protection afforded to homosexuals under the Charter (which, as a public body, the BCCT had to consider), they also noted that those values had to be balanced with the sections 2 (a) and 15 rights also afforded to religion under the Charter and concluded that it was improper for the BCCT of teachers in fail to balance the religious freedoms of TWU graduates against those rights.