Sentences with phrase «because of religious values»

Some couples choose separation because of religious values that forbid divorce.

Gresh encourages young people to abstain from sex because of her religious values but also presented a neuroscientific case against casual sex:

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Coalition personnel and their local partners have a database of «category - one structures» that they will avoid targeting because they have infrastructural or historic value, including religious centers or hospitals.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

Well, it's because no religious value, rule, law, tenet, or bit of dogma EVER trumps this nation's laws and we all agree on that, otherwise you might as well make the sleazy pope President and let the Ayatollah Khomeni be Vice President and we will live under religious sharia law with death for anyone who speaks blasphemy or who «dishonors» any religious figure whether real or not.

First, its premisses concerning society and modern man are pseudoscientific: for example, the affirmation that man has become adult, that he no longer needs a Father, that the Father - God was invented when the human race was in its infancy, etc.; the affirmation that man has become rational and thinks scientifically, and that therefore he must get rid of the religious and mythological notions that were appropriate when his thought processes were primitive; the affirmation that the modern world has been secularized, laicized, and can no longer countenance religious people, but if they still want to preach the kerygma they must do it in laicized terms; the affirmation that the Bible is of value only as a cultural document, not as the channel of Revelation, etc. (I say «affirmation» because these are indeed simply affirmations, unrelated either to fact or to any scientific knowledge about modern man or present - day society.)

In fact, I see the decision as a victory for religious freedom in the sense that people whose religion supports and encourages same - sex unions will no longer be prohibited from practicing that important religious value simply because some of their neighbors hold a different view.

The picture above the article is displaying a group of Catholic sisters (Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist) that never belonged to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, but instead started the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious because they disagreed with the values of the LCWR.

Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the Liberal values match Christian values more closely.

Those of you who will not patronize Chick Fil - A because of their right to express their religious beliefs are the very people who would impose their immoral values on us.

Once all the disclaimers have been made — that many religious beliefs are supremely difficult to test for truth because they refer to the supernatural or to that which it is beyond our mental powers to discern, or because (in the case of faith) they are values and not truth - claims — once all this has been said, we still have to admit that yes, of course the question of truth enters in here.

Because religious conservatives sense this conflict between general television and their own values and beliefs, their viewing of religious programs is both an act of protest against general television and an expression of support for the beliefs associated with religious programs.

These differences between the «mainstreams» cultivated by religious and general television are significant because for many years general television has been functioning as a powerful, and perhaps even the major, cultivator of our society's values, attitudes and behavior.

I hope that you are actually one of those who just ignores the fact that atheism is amoral and chooses to follow our society's religious values anyway and not one of those who secretly uses people because they realize there's nothing wrong with it.

A religious ritual without a relationship with God is of little to no value at all... she feels uncomfortable with explaining her kosher / non kosher because there is no God in it... just rituals.

Many religious people have more refined version of their beliefs because of their moral value they may have.

This is at first glance an anomalous position to find Habermas taking, because he generally appears to be skeptical of religion, treating it as a form of ideology that systematically distorts communication by virtue of the fact that religious people generally seem to be unable to abandon their own suppositions long enough to truly consider the interests and values of others.

He has taken on the monumental task of rethinking the principles of humanitarian intervention within an ethical framework based upon «universal» religious tenets — universal because they are core values in all these religious traditions.

It is the opinion of this author that this model is of significant value for the religious communicator because of its empirical basis, its comprehensiveness, its clarity, and its applicability in understanding the religious television situation.

Even so, such people are often accused of having a «hidden religious agenda» because of the remnants of the Hebrew - Christian tradition in the schools» religious values, holidays and customs.

«Because of that, we have to develop narratives, frames of reference, language, and tools that connect climate change to people's religious values and identity.»

This partiality is unjustified, because Cruise's religious affiliation is not germane to his acting abilities or the entertainment value of his movie.

Contrary to the assertion that these programs focus on «values» — the «Gospel message» is about salvation, and contains no «values lesson» — it is a religious doctrine, and because of this, belongs to religion — and not in our public school classrooms.

Because religious schools violate your personal sensibilities, you are telling low - income families — often single mothers, often people of color — that you want to deny them a choice they want for their kid, because of your Because religious schools violate your personal sensibilities, you are telling low - income families — often single mothers, often people of color — that you want to deny them a choice they want for their kid, because of your because of your values.

We have uplifted shared values of justice, responsibility, and stewardship in numerous rounds of public comments and hearings about this proposed coal terminal because our religious traditions tell us that we have moral responsibility to protect and care for God's creation and our communities.

People of faith are in favor of I - 1631 because it aligns with our shared religious values of justice, responsibility and stewardship.

Apart from being unreasonable because it isn't linked to actual discrimination by TWU grads (which discrimination might justify the need for protection) it also fails to give weight to the charter values of religious freedom and freedom of association reflected in sections 2 and 15 (1) of the Charter, to say nothing of the provincial protections afforded to TWU's conduct under section 41 of the BC human rights code (and similar provisions in other provinces).