Sentences with phrase «civil institution of»

That includes their option to participate in the CIVIL INSTITUTION of marriage.

Imaginary religious arguments, like those used by the sentencing judge in Loving, should not be used to bar faithful couples, of whatever race or gender, from the same civil institution of marriage that the majority enjoy.

Not exact matches

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the country's president, has been turning Turkey into an Islamist - tinged autocracy, purging the military and other state institutions of perceived internal enemies and jailing thousands of journalists, professors, civil society leaders, and political opponents.

These include: itinerary details; the name of the person or organization paying for the trip; the names of every country the applicant has visited in the past 10 years (99 for me); the applicant's current and two previous places of work; every educational institution the applicant has attended; all the professional, civil, and charity organizations of which the applicant is a member or with which he has «cooperated»; the names of all the applicant's relatives in Russia; the details of any training in firearms, explosives, nuclear weapons, and «biological and chemical substances» (which arguably would include everything from acidophilus yogurt to Drano); and details of the applicant's military service, including rank and occupation.

Democracy depends on a wide range of institutions: political parties; courts, police, and media; non-partisan civil servants and arms - length regulators; and universities with experts who pursue truth wherever evidence may lead.

In short, Canada's staggeringly powerful oil industry wants «oversight» (their word) of political, civil service, and regulatory institutions in both the Alberta and federal governments.

I have also written critically of blacks» continued reliance on civil - rights - era protest and legal strategies, and of the propagation of affirmative action throughout our employment and educational institutions.

Leaving aside the manifold ways in which stay - at - home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to be sure — can be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?

He is a convinced and convincing proponent of classical liberalism, which means he is today what is called a conservative, and is especially effective in urging that we recover the role of the institutions of civil society» most importantly the family» in constructing a democracy less troubling to the common good.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

It is for these reasons that civilised states, in recognising the foundational place of the family, have made the public, life - long commitment of marriage as a civil institution.

But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

• The focus on the autonomous individual to the neglect of institutions of civil society, especially family.

Even apart from the Papacy, although in practice that separation was not made, the Church in the West remained the most stable institution in an age of disorder when civil authorities came and went and violence was rampant.

Yet even as conservatives in the last two decades have made notable strides in access to influential cultural institutions in entertainment and the media, the influence of civil society and nonpolitical leaders on public opinion is still underappreciated.

First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated into an ideological crusade against cultural institutions and habits essential to a genuinely free society.

We wish to express our deep concern that the commission has issued a report, «Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Non-Discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties,» that stigmatizes tens of millions of religious Americans, their communities and their faith - based institutions, and threatens the religious freedom of all our citizens.

The chapter on the civil rights establishment, and its fulfillment of Eric Hoffer's maxim that every cause eventually becomes a business and then a racket, is also effective, as is his critique of the «world citizenship» fantasies surrounding the UN and cognate institutions.

The whole idea of civil society was to distinguish sharply what is public and what is governmental, and thus to make government more accountable to the «people - sized» institutions of society.

In contrast to suburbia, the traditional city is a complex institution designed to address and transform the unpleasant aspects of human life by means of community, culture and civil society.

Civil unions (providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name) are better, because a «separate but equal» institution is always constitutional.

Current enthusiasm for civil society is usually traced to the arguments of Vaclav Havel, the Czech president, and others who posited the claims of civil society against the totalitarian claims of communism, and, earlier than that, to the To Empower People manifesto authored by Peter Berger and myself in order to lift up the crucial role of non-governmental «mediating institutions» in public policy.

I personally believe that the helpers (pastors, employees, civil servants, clients, etc.) usually become the victims, and for a lone victim to stand up to an entire institution for the sake of his or her own health is often quite costly.

The institutions of civil society are potentially strong enough to foster some level of personal, social and cultural healing.

I suspect that it would strengthen both the civil and the religious aspects of marriage — preserving the tension inherent in what is a hybrid state / religious institution without resolving things too definitively towards either side.

It would be more accurate to say certain ideas found institutional roots in the Protestant soil of America that they did not find in Catholic Mexico, and these institutions — not just the ideas — were also necessary for a civil religion.

Mexico, though it entertained some of the same ideas, failed to create comparable institutions; so it did not develop a civil religion.

The American civil religion is thus a product of certain ideas, but those ideas have been filtered through particular social institutions.

On the basis of the foregoing analysis of Mexico and the United States, perhaps this explanation can be offered: Civil religion depends for its existence upon circumstances allowing persons and institutions to be «religious» and «political» at the same time.

Leading up to the issues of birth control and abortion he declares that marriage is a natural right of man rather than a religious or civil institution.

Back in 1975 when Peter Berger and I wrote To Empower People, the little book that is credited (or blamed) for launching the now widespread interest in the role of «mediating institutions» in civil society, we proposed a «minimal proposition» and a «maximal proposition.»

I of course would still get married and people would still be crying foul about terms since I have the support of my church and would still want the religious institution of marriage, even if the civil were something entirely separate.

In this essay I have argued for greater legal attention to the spontaneous institutions of civil society.

Surrounded by such places, and steeped in the principles of Catholic social teaching, the participants of the Seminar grapple with the monumental questions of our day: How, after a half - century of degradation, can the institution of the family, the bedrock of civil society, possibly bear the weight it must bear if freedom is to serve the common good?

It can also be argued that there are class interests involved in this: the new class staffs the welfare - state and civil - rights institutions, the major putative beneficiaries of which are the racial minorities of America.

A similar invasion of civil rights is implicit in the initiative to require doctors to report to the Department of Health persons infected with the AIDS virus, and in the proposed restrictions that would prohibit any family planning institution receiving federal funds from informing clients of the availability of abortion services.

When the aforementioned shopkeepers hear Bush's message, they imagine a world full of mediating institutions — some religious, some secular — that link civil society with government, the former getting larger while the latter gets smaller.

Ninety per cent of the presidents of colleges before the Civil War were ordained ministers.42 In the post-War period these men were rapidly replaced, especially in the larger and more influential institutions, by members of other professions.

Evangelical Protestant institutions partook to a much lesser degree in either the academic enhancement or the secularization of their mainstream cousins during the period between the Civil War and World War I.

If civil government is a divine institution, then God perforce authorizes government officials to use violence or the threat of violence in certain situations.

Since this unconditioned love is impossible of practice in a world where unredeemed sinfulness must be considered the general characteristic, common civil society and its individual members as well as institutions like the family, the economic order, nationality and the State necessary for the preservation of humanity are to be ordered according to the Moral Law inherent in their nature.

In the Protestant tradition sin has perverted the moral law of creation more radically and therefore takes a more pragmatic approach to the laws needed in different historical situations for the preservation of civil society, its individual members and its basic institutions.

«The president made clear that his support is for civil marriage for same - sex couples, and he is fully committed to protecting the ability of religious institutions to make their own decisions about their own sacraments,» the letter said.

Then, «the power and divine virtue of Christian wisdom had diffused itself throughout the laws, institutions, and morals of the people, permeating all ranks and relations of civil society.»

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

And I wish especially to emphasize that in the framework of civil unions already in place in France, there is no reason that our concern for protecting partners would cause us to put in question the institution of marriage in the radical way implied by the authorization of homosexual marriage.

If one thinks of synonyms for «civil religion» — for example, belief in the good intentions of one's nation, optimism about the future of that nation, faith in the legitimacy of its historic institutions, conviction that its errors can and will be corrected — then it is obvious that many events could and did trivialize the American civil religion.

In an action that seems very ahead of its time for any institution, the case was reported to the civil authorities in 1973 though these did not bring it to court.

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