Sentences with phrase «because of their religious convictions»

Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

The parents refuse to allow the procedure because of their religious convictions.

Our major tradition is one in which men have had the courage to be free and to uphold the sacredness of individual personality because of their religious convictions.

Joel Northrup of Linn - Mar, the boy who refused to wrestle any girl because of his religious convictions, won one match Friday in the consolation round but then lost and was eliminated.

Lillian Ladele, an employee in a government post in Islington, asked to be excused from registering same - sex marriage licenses because of her religious convictions.

Not a tough concept to grasp, but because of your religious convictions, understandable.

The high court's decision will impact wedding vendors across the country who do not want to service same - sex celebrations because of their religious convictions on marriage.

But people do not get to pick and choose which laws they will follow because of their religious convictions.

It can serve as a temporary solution for couples desiring a «trial» divorce, or as a permanent arrangement for couples unable to divorce because of religious convictions or financial affairs, such as the need for one spouse to continue on the other's health insurance.

Not exact matches

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

They would like to be relieved of that compulsion, but that can't happen, they are told, because the larger society's understanding of the moral life overrules the understanding prescribed by their religious convictions.

We both believe that it is pointless simply to shout Bible verses louder, or to base arguments on the private religious convictions of the Founding Fathers, or to huff and puff that we must be taken seriously because Christianity was important way back when.

They did so because they recognized the unique fervor of religious convictions and the remarkable tenacity of religious institutions.»

In Vermont, the federal court is now hearing a case in which a man is refusing to enroll in Vermont Health Connect, a state exchange, because a portion of his premium paid for abortion services and this violates his religious convictions.

He identifies and clearly articulates three subcategories: cultural Christians (those who identify themselves as Christian because they view it as synonymous with being American), congregational Christians (those who identify themselves as Christian because they or a family member have some loose connection to a church), and convictional Christians (those who identify as Christian because of the fervency of their religious conviction).

I'm going to walk into my business to day and give my employes an announcement, that even though my religious convictions are against the idea of western medicine and the supreme court has allowed me to refuse you medical insurance because of it i wont.

The judge obviously changed the name because of her own (personal) religious convictions, and her ruling will be overturned (and rightly so).

In declaring religion out of bounds, they surely sought not only to protect Romney from the criticism of conservative Evangelicals, but to protect the future Republican nominee, whoever he or she might be, from the religiously based criticism of the left, which has already argued that Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and others are unsuitable because of their supposedly extreme religious convictions.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

Oswald Chambers wrote something that I always keep before me: â $ œBeware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to Godâ $ ¦ There was never a more inconsistent being on this earth than our Lord, but he was never inconsistent with his Fatherâ $ ¦ It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to him.â $

52 (1) Where the Board is satisfied that an employee because of his or her religious conviction or belief,