Sentences with phrase «church and state despite»

This is why the country's founders were so adamant about separation of church and state despite their own personal views and upbringing.

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Among the points made was that, despite the bishops» declared intention, a statement such as «Political Responsibility,» issued by the United States Catholic Conference (USCC), is in fact a political platform, and it inevitably presents the Catholic Church as but another political interest group.

Its an issue in human rights and separation of church and state and that all people have rights despite the wish of a few relgions to push their personal beliefs on others.

As the budget deficits of the federal, state and local governments increase, the possibility of taxing church property also rises — despite the long history of tax exemption.

«The Vatican did not recognize the scope or gravity of the problem facing the Church in the United States despite many warning signs; and it rebuffed earlier attempts to reform procedures for removing predator priests.»

Despite the much - vaunted disjunction between church and state in America, civic duties to the polis are a binding Christian responsibility.

However, despite the state - sponsored crackdown, the group which «exists to strengthen and expand the Church in the Iran region and beyond», said the intimidation isn't stopping people from embracing Christianity.

Then you have people like Mr. Perry in Texas who uses his office to promote his own religious agenda, despite, as I previously mentioned, the separation of church and state.

The separation of church and state will remain intact despite your little hissy fits, Ronnie.

I «celebrate» christmas because it is a mandatory holiday despite separation of church and state — when in Rome...

Despite formal separation of church and state, the effect of this arrangement over time has been to covertly control religious leaders by making it appear that the institutions they lead are the bulwark of democracy.

The American separation of church and state, despite its flaws, both supports and encourages democratic, religiously inflected efforts — such as the civil rights movement — to advance this process.

Some while back we remarked that The Journal of Church and State is, despite its considerable merits, marred by a tendency toward anti-Catholicism.

Despite Pope Francis's unprecedented visit to a Pentecostal church and apology for past treatment of Pentecostals by Catholics, many Italian evangelical leaders remain concerned about how evangelicals in the United States (and other nations) are cozying up to the popular pontiff.

Each program would honor the letter of the law, keeping church and state separate, despite the fact that most parents would need to enroll their children in both programs to get adequate child care.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

Despite the Lagos State Attorney General's simplistic and foolhardy assertion that the State Government would «pursue the case against TB Joshua and his Church to a logical end», the truth is that what the government is dealing with is a premeditated and well - orchestrated act of terror carried out by highly proficient, skilled and experienced operatives and not one of involuntary manslaughter which came about as a consequence of negligence on the part of the Church authorities or a faulty foundation.

Despite the continuing decline both of those attending church each week and those who describe themselves as belonging to the Church of England, «faith» schools continue to account for over a third of all state - funded schools, and all schools, regardless of whether or not they have a religious character, are still obliged to hold a daily act of wochurch each week and those who describe themselves as belonging to the Church of England, «faith» schools continue to account for over a third of all state - funded schools, and all schools, regardless of whether or not they have a religious character, are still obliged to hold a daily act of woChurch of England, «faith» schools continue to account for over a third of all state - funded schools, and all schools, regardless of whether or not they have a religious character, are still obliged to hold a daily act of worship.

Questions asked included whether Cardinal Dolan supports the income tax surcharge that is part of the mayor's plan, what the 1,700 seats offered by the Archdiocese are currently used for, pending education tax credit bills, how the mayor expects to get his pre-K plan approved despite continuing disagreement with Governor Cuomo, guidelines governing church / state separation, how enough sufficiently - credentialed teachers can be in place for September and whether the pressure over his charter school actions is causing Mayor de Blasio to change his views.

More states are also considering legislation that would permit the carrying of concealed weapons in bars, churches and on college campuses, despite recent tragedies.

The similarities in plight are not incidental, despite the supposed high wall between church and state.

The union argues that — despite the corporate tax workaround — it still violates the separation of church and state because the scholarships allow children to attend private religious school on the public's dime, among other issues.

I recently wrote about how a recent trip to Ireland revealed that despite the faults of the American educational system, one thing we do get right is the separation of church and state.

Critics also argue that, despite the court rulings, the programs do violate the spirit of the separation of church and state.