Sentences with phrase «based moral convictions»

Our protest against «the naked public square» was then a distinctly minority position, whereas today there is a much more widespread recognition that church - state jurisprudence is a shambles, and that the democratic process requires the vigorous engagement of the religiously based moral convictions of the American people.

Not exact matches

Last year, Gorsuch spoke of how he agreed with Scalia that judges should use «text, structure and history» to understand the law, and «not to decide cases based on their own moral convictions or the policy consequences they believe might serve society best,» The Washington Postreported.

Madden's «basic complaint,» as he puts it, is that I believe that people's ultimate moral convictions and commitments can be based at least in part on reason.

This is a case of shift in policy based on convenience rather than on ideological convictions or moral principles.

Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.

The Church's defence of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is grounded on her conviction that this law is not a threat to our freedom, but rather a «language» which enables us to understand ourselves and the truth of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world.

It was the firm conviction of secular philosophy as well as religious teaching in my youth that morals and rational reasoning lead to the same conclusions, and this was the basis of the trust in progress I was brought up with.

Laws forbidding suicide assistance are based on the moral conviction that all killing of innocent life is wrong.

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

2007), which held for the first time that a conviction for sex with minor is not necessarily a crime involving moral turpitude; Camins v. Gonzales, 500 F. 3d 872 (9th Cir 2007) which applied retroactivity principles to find that the grounds of inadmissibility do not apply to returning lawful permanent residents based on criminal conviction sustained before April 1, 1997; and Li v. Ashcroft, 389 F. 3d 892 (9th Cir.

Senator Roy Blunt (R - MO) introduces an amendment that would allow any employer to deny insurance coverage for birth control (or any benefit) based on a so - called «moral conviction.»

This rider would allow employers and health insurance companies to refuse to provide coverage of any health care service — such as abortion — on the basis of religious or moral convictions.