Sentences with phrase «concerns about religious freedom»

Washington (CNN)-- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops does not support the Obama administration's revised proposal for providing insurance coverage for contraception, saying it falls short of addressing concerns about religious freedom.

«We're deeply disappointed,» Bruce Clemenger, president of the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, told CT. «The office had became a go - to place for us to raise concerns about religious freedom to the government, and it established a level of expertise within the Canadian government.»

CNN: Catholic Bishops not satisfied with Obama's contraception compromise The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops does not support the Obama administration's revised proposal for providing insurance coverage for contraception, saying it falls short of addressing concerns about religious freedom.

Among all age demographics for Christians, millennials are now most concerned about religious freedom.

In some cases, however, it might encourage a wavering legislator to vote for same - sex marriage if he or she is concerned about religious freedom and is persuaded that some token or partial «protection» of it makes that vote easier to cast.

Not exact matches

The European Evangelical Alliance stated it was «extremely concerned» about how the law «greatly restricts religious freedom, and urged Christians to «pray that this new law unites Christians in new ways» and «pray that this time of trial will be used by the Lord to strengthen and grow his church.»

My concern is about sticking to our founding principle of religious freedom in the United States.

Oh, that's right, we can't, because the GOP is all about telling people that Christians are the only people in this country who matter, and that the First Amendment isn't really concerning religious freedom, but the freedom to pick what ever flavor of Christianity you choose.

Marie Harf, a spokeswoman for the State Department, has said the department is «deeply concerned» about the death sentence and called on Sudan to respect religious freedom and «approach this case with the compassion that is in keeping with the values of the Sudanese people.»

A concern to uphold the universal character of the law predominated in pre-Sherbert thinking about religious freedom.

Scientists have complete freedom to investigate, but decisions about the purposes science should serve involve essentially religious questions concerning the meaning of life and the goals of men.

The views of a visiting pope, respected by Catholics and many non-Catholics alike as a moral and spiritual leader of great prominence, will not make persons now unconcerned about global warming suddenly begin to grow concerned, nor even make skeptics of religious freedom begin to take its claims more seriously.

The Pope had expressed support for the English Bishops in their concerns about the planned law, and noted that «the effect of some of the legislation... has been to impose unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.

The Bishop outlined his concerns about persecution being faced by many religious groups across the globe urged the British Government «to continue to support the United Nations rapporteur in moving beyond the issues of defamation or incitement, important as those issues are — for 45 years the aspiration of drafting a convention on the freedom of religion or belief has been on ice.»

According to one source familiar with the effort to pass the bill, despite the unambiguous limits on it, Senate Republican leaders pointed to concerns some religious communities voiced about their freedom to counsel young people unfettered by the state.

«One of my deepest concerns about the imposition of the Common Core is that private, religious, and homeschool educators might be forced into adopting government - dictated curricula and assessments that violate their academic freedom and rights of conscience.

In my last post on Double Aspect, I wrote about the religious freedom issues addressed in the Supreme Court's recent decision in Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), 2017 SCC 54, which concerned the constitutionality of a ministerial decision to allow development on land considered sacred by an Aboriginal nation.

The dissent in the Court of Appeal, assessing the broader justification, concluded that the accommodations offered by the province sufficiently met concerns about interfering with religious freedom, including that the right claimed related to having the photo taken willingly: since it was required by law, one could argue the Hutterites would not be having their photos taken willingly.