Sentences with phrase «against religious use»
Without admitting the charge, the employer changed its absolute rule against religious use of drugs, and it paid Smith and Black some of their lost pay.
http://www.religion-online.org/ Not exact matches
Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.
You also ignore the fact that Christians have done just as bad things as those living in the Middle East and those you would call doing the work of the devil: killing those who do not share their faith, using their religious position to gain wealth and discriminate against those who have different beliefs or lifestyles.
Your little «on second thought» dig clearly insinuated something about my own religious commitments; your sarcasm was too weak to warrant recognition; and your choice to decry me as «emotional» is a really tired tactic which mean who don't respect women use against women when they've been cornered.
Where all groups, religious or not, have the same ability to use the property, no bias in favour or against, is apparent.
He has made threats, annoyed, pestered and used religious slurs against me me because of my belief in Jesus Christ.
State sanctioned rights must not be influenced by religious beliefs and a company which uses consumer money to donate to causes that continue to oppress and discriminate against those we «love» should be exposed.
As soon as religious beliefs are no longer used to discriminate against disliked groups, or to impede science and education, a lot of atheists will probably cease fighting them.
Governmental use of force against religious groups was up also: 42 percent of countries used force against a religious group between 1 and 200 times in 2015, up from 30 percent in 2014.
If an atheist politician can not get elected because of a religious angle being used against them and counter it successfully... maybe they don't need to be elected.
Secondly, the search for a new social contract where Jean - Jacques Rousseau will be dug out of his grave to help them find new inspiration, and finally, the use of the voluntary NGO organisations, the Church and religious people, to battle against poverty.
But that this should be interpreted as freedom from religion, and used as a means of sealing our culture against the imparting of religious knowledge, has no justification in fact.
But he would not use the «sword of steel» against the Quakers or other religious groups.
These texts also cover the origin of law, whether religious laws governing prayer, religious tax, and fasting, or prohibitions against such acts as manslaughter or attacks on the chastity of a woman, and laws governing the use of property.
A federal judge will hear arguments Monday on a temporary restraining order against an Oklahoma referendum that would ban the use of Islamic religious law in state courts.
They are not really against birth control, as they are against using tax - payer dollars to pay for birth control, or the government requiring churches and religious organizations to offer birth control as part of their group medical insurance plans.
Religion has been used to justify discrimination against Native Americans, African Americans, minority religious groups, woman and interracial couples.
Nowhere does Bingham give careful attention to how soul and immortality have actually been used by religious communities, nor does he admit explicitly that Churchland's remarks on germs versus demons and the pitting of Ptolemy against Galileo amounts to saying that religious terms are comparable to pre-Copernican astronomical theories.
Joe, people have used their religious teachings to justify discrimination against Native Americans, African Americans, minority religious groups, woman and interracial couples.
You may believe the Bible tells you gays should be able to marry or maybe even that blacks should not be able to marry whites (another thing people have used the Bible to protest against); however, that does not mean that US civil equal rights laws should be based on your personal religious beliefs.
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.
American Conservatives are used to their religious leaders stirring up hatred against... everyone not like them.
Why is it that all such religions have to threaten those who don't believe... Because, religion is a delusion, prayers, rolling beads around, hymn singing, bible / koran reading do not work... so the only thing that religions have left is to use punishment, blackmail, extortion, and threats against those who refuse to buy into such religious delusions.
Well unless I'm thinking of the wrong sam, this particular tag is used by someone who is, if not an atheist, someone who defintely goes against the religious morons.
FBOs must not use governmental funds for purposes of «Sectarian worship, instruction, or proselytization,» and they must not discriminate against beneficiaries on the basis of religion or require them to participate in religious practices.
(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.
Reverend Felix Omobude, national president of PFN said: «We are aware of orchestrated plans to subtly use this policy as a means of forceful religious indoctrination and we maintain our stand against it.
Thus, with an extreme irony, and an arrogant inconsistency, an exaggerated version of «gay rights» is being used against the right to religious freedom - a concept that lies at the very heart of any coherent concept of rights at all.
The abortion issue was just used to manipulate religious groups into a voting block, pre late 70s the church wasn't even against abortions.
What is unique in the present conflict is the psychological maneuvering on both sides to gain public sympathy, one making use of moral categories of «just retaliation» and the other appealing for religious or moral duty of every Muslim to be engaged in jihad against the infidels and their ways.
To suggest, then, that religious believers (much less majorities who, qua majorities, also have a second claim on shaping public policy) are «wards» depending on the Constitution for their religious freedom and its scope is, to use Posner and Segall's words against them, «to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.»
We must remember that Paul, the narrator, is a biased party in the dispute and that he uses the event to bolster his argument against persons in Galatia who would like gentile converts to adopt such Jewish customs as circumcision, religious holidays and dietary restrictions.
Most God - believers in the rooms don't use their religious views to state an oppositional argument against atheists.
I live near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where some government officials tried to use this same strategy to ban the building of a mosque in the area, and I spoke out against such a blatant infringement on religious liberty.
Too often, self - righteous religious leaders use their power to promote actions that go against the core values of their religion and religious texts.
It is interesting that people who use Leviticus against the gay community forget the part that talks about religious sacrifices, making women sleep in tents outside during their period, the dietary restrictions placed on them and how to cleanse a leper, all of which appear in Leviticus.
The issue here is that the owners of a company should not be able to use their personal religious views to discriminate against their employees.
Instead of telling people that their interpretation is wrong, you can remind them that other religious texts have been used in the past to justify atudes and laws that are recognized today as morally wrong and unjust — such as discrimination against women, people of color and religious minorities.
They don't mind using some religious person's ignorance and delusions against them, nor do they mind using «token» blacks and other minorities despite a large number of clear indications that they are racist, h.om.ophobic sociopaths.
People speaking out against bigotry and hate by people who use their religious beliefs to justify depriving others of the human rights the religious claim for themselves by virtue of their beliefs.
I applaud a company that was built on religious ideas, if they do not discriminate or use company profits to discriminate against anyone.
You maggots are attempting to undermine our religious liberty by using our own values against US.
So, if an employee of these organizations feel that its is immoral or against their religious conscience to use contraceptives they can simply choose not to ask for prescription or choose not to be sterilized.
I urge all Evangelicals to stand up for the truth, and not to be intimidated by the religious war of the hypocrites who likes to use the Word of God as a cloak of maliciousness against you during their lip service!
Using secondhand accounts, without a full text of the original speech, Biskupic reported that Scalia «delivered an ardent defense of religious beliefs against the assaults of secular society.»
You republicans, the bible toting ignorents are what's wrong with christianity, religions because you're using it as a leverage devise for, against your political agendas... What ever happened with seperation of church and state and its consequences if you religious freaks stuck your nose in politics too deep and IRS paid you and your churches a visit!!
Quite often, as I like to be armed against people who use biased interpretations of religious works to advance an agenda of hatred.
At Erfurt the Occamists gave Martin a confidence in logical processes and the use of argument and dialectic which never left him, however much he thundered against it as a way to religious faith.
This is the face of a star athelete, future politician, and fella whose 100 % against condom use strictly for religious purposes baby, he dosent wan na go to hell.
School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.