Sentences with phrase «beliefs in a free society»
There's no place for his extreme beliefs in a free society....
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Facing weak and scattered criticism for expressing your beliefs is not persecution, it's part of living in a free society.
Unlike many global religions with theocratic institutions or faiths that weave intricately into personhood and national identity, Christian belief and adherence is virtually impossible to assume of anyone in a free society.
There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19
In a free society people have to have the freedom to be wrong, Legislating and punishing belief would never work.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.
The British Humanist Association (BHA) has called the ruling «completely ridiculous», and argued that the ASA is «chilling the free mockery of beliefs which is vital in a free society».
The ASA have shown themselves to be absurdly hypersensitive to the possibility of religious offence and are chilling the free mockery of all beliefs which is vital in a free society.
In short, social liberalism is the belief that a fairer society is a freer society.
Feminists in Iceland ride the Free the Nipple wave in the belief that society has become engulfed by pornography.
While there is no doubt that the Covenant's refusal to accept LGBTQ expressions of sexuality is deeply offensive and hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and we do not in any way wish to minimize that effect, there is no Charter or other legal right to be free from views that offend and contradict an individual's strongly held beliefs... Disagreement and discomfort with the views of others is unavoidable in a free and democratic society.
He maintains that «all of the invective and hyperbole about anti-semitism is really a smokescreen for imposing an officially sanctioned religious belief on society as a whole which is not the function of Courts or Human Rights Tribunals in a free society».