Sentences with phrase «defense of religious»

I attended Catholic schools, and I believe this country's long - standing defense of religious liberty is a hallmark of our democracy.

The sooner this happens, the better — for regional and global security, for defense of religious freedoms and civil rights, and for the self - determination of individuals and nations.

When the defense of religious freedom and other basic human rights meant confronting Soviet power, even when foreign policy «realists» objected, Frank Wolf was there.

When the defense of religious freedom meant confronting Islamist and jihadist terrorists, in the face of the same objections from the same unrealistic realists, Frank Wolf was there.

Davis, a recent convert, framed her refusal as a defense of her religious freedom.

Using secondhand accounts, without a full text of the original speech, Biskupic reported that Scalia «delivered an ardent defense of religious beliefs against the assaults of secular society.»

«That a Muslim immigrant can assault a United States citizen,» it says, «in defense of his religious beliefs and walk away a free man, while the victim is chastised and insulted... is a horrible abrogation.»

The defense of religious freedom, and the encouragement marriage provides to fathers and mothers to have their own children, and not leave them to single mothers.

And so I stand with the young woman in the above video in defense of modesty, chastity, and piety, just as I stand with Muslims like my dear friends Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Dr. Suzy Ismail against the killing of unborn children and the evil of pornography, and with my equally dear friend Asma Uddin of the Becket Fund in defense of religious freedom.

Will those Americans read a Ryan T. Anderson essay in defense of religious liberty or some demented rant about how gay marriage is the final «Obamination» (18,000 Facebook shares).

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks received the award this year in recognition of his outspoken defense of religious liberty in Great Britain and elsewhere.

Heartening also is our common witness and action in defense of religious freedom here and around the world, and an awakened sense of solidarity with persecuted Christians, joined with effective concern for non «Christians denied their rights of conscience.

Catholics have been gratified to find in Evangelicals true brothers in the defense of human life, in the defense of religious freedom, and in the defense of the institution of marriage.

ECT's most recent statement, «In Defense of Religious Freedom,» details the infringements on religious liberty that have taken place around the world, as well as those which have emerged in the United States.

This includes defense of religious freedom and the marriage - based family, resistance to evils such as abortion, euthanasia, eugenics, and coercive population control, and a devotion to justice for all, especially for the poor.

And I find it amazing that the ones in defense of religious extremism left out Hitler when talking about deadliest mass murderers.

As for the «narrow public witness» against which John Murdock rightly cautions, I really don't think «prioritizing» equals «ignoring,» such that to prioritize the defense of religious freedom and the right to life excludes other issues from the Church's social witness and public policy advocacy.

He who stood against king and court in defense of religious liberty, and saw his mother spend thirteen weeks in prison for refusing to pay a church tax.

In Defense of Religious Schools and Colleges.

It's led to especially collegial relations with Roman Catholics, with President Harrison writing a letter in June of last year thanking the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their defense of religious freedom.

Not exact matches

Circular religious logic will still never fully justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

They praise him for his remarkable work in defense of international religious freedom and other human rights.

However, in defense of President Obama's religious beliefs, I suggest that maybe much the same as JFK, President Obama truely believes in separation of Church and State and does not want people to think that his religious beliefs in any way influence his political actions.

I'm always somewhat dispirited by the tendency to answer criticisms about the coherence of religious belief with a sort of watertight defense of its rationality.

This article presents an in - depth defense of the conjugal view of marriage, and I included it on the reading list as part of my efforts to expose students to a range of viewpoints — religious and secular, progressive and conservative.

SGM evoked a religious freedom defense in 2013 when the confidentiality of its pastoral counseling was challenged, stating, «SGM believes that allowing courts to second - guess pastoral guidance would represent a blow to the First Amendment that would hinder, not help, families seeking spiritual direction among other resources in dealing with the trauma related to any sin including child sexual abuse.»

While defense contractors say that there is no moral or religious dilemma for their employees, church leaders say that there is a problem, but one that can be solved by refusing to participate in the development or production of nuclear weapons and technology.

’42 Indeed, women from all three continents, Africa, Asia and Latin America, say that «In the person and praxis of Jesus Christ, women of the three continents find the grounds of our liberation from all discrimination: sexual, racial, social, economic, political and religious... Christology is integrally linked with action on behalf of social justice and the defense of each person's right to life and to a more humane life.43 This means that Christology is about apartheid, sexual exploitation, poverty and oppression.

I'm not trying to take the side of religion here but in defense of most religious billboards I've seen, they are mostly benign «come to our church» kind of signs.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

I am a spiritual person not religious, but in defense of Raison I must state the a black church is not something that was choosen by black people.

Much of the defense of Rushdie comes from writers who have argued that it is only religious naïveté that prevents Muslims from being able to distinguish between fact and fantasy.

These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

Seeking to cloak their fear of reprisals for naming real root causes, progressives trumpet phony diversions depicted as earth shattering crises (namely, global warming), missile defense, homophobia, protecting our borders, the religious right, abstinence education, prayer in schools, animal rights, biblical creation, etc..

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

They also might not be the kind of men and women equipped to defend religious life, often a heroic defense.

So my post is not any kind of defense of the «spiritual but not religious» camp.

Morrison's modernist approach to religion in 1912, tinged by both cultural and religious anti-Catholicism, still had room for a spirited defense of Bible reading in public schools when the Supreme Court of Illinois banned the Bible from the classroom.

A substantial sector of religious America, for example, sees the firefight in Waco as an attack on radical religion and places the cutting edge of religious freedom in the defense of cults» free exercise rights.

I offer this refinement, rather, in the interests of intellectual clarity and so that religious organizations don't confuse their constitutional defense of cults with some broader sense of commonality with them.

Most important to me was Freud — not his diagnosis of religious belief as an infantile longing but his list of defense mechanisms (sublimation, projection, reaction formation among them).

Sometimes these are reminiscent of the tensions to be found in the relations of states and provinces to nation as a whole, sometimes to the more acerbic dissensions among the branches of the armed forces, all equally pledged to the defense of the country; sometimes they seem very similar to the tensions found among Roman Catholic religious orders; sometimes they seem like economic competition.

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

It's always amusing when a religious person has to fall back on insults because he can't muster up an intelligent defense of his beliefs.

With federal judges in two highly conservative states striking down «defense of marriage» laws as unconstitutional this January, more church - state experts are advising same - sex marriage opponents that the marriage battleground should shift to religious freedom.

For example, religious conservatism during the 1980s may have grown partly through reinforcement from a regime that championed a strong military defense, the protection of domestic markets through low taxes and limited social services, and the values of small - town America, even though this same administration was also firmly committed to free trade and international markets.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.

Finally, an invitation to the Al Smith Dinner in no way indicates a slackening in our vigorous promotion of values we Catholic bishops believe to be at the heart of both gospel and American values, particularly the defense of human dignity, fragile life, and religious freedom.

He instituted a vigorous religious reform, always in the ancient Near East a gesture of independence under such circumstances; and he undertook elaborate defense measures, including the strengthening of the outer fortifications of Jerusalem and the construction of the Siloam tunnel.