Sentences with phrase «discriminate against religious»

That would seem to raise constitutional problems because the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the Free Exercise Clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the government from enacting laws that discriminate against any religious group or activity.

If you are looking for a relationship focused website that doesn't discriminate against your religious or sexual preference but that still uses a personality test to help you find your soulmate, try either Chemistry.com or Perfectmatch.com.

For government to discriminate against religious conduct» and make it the subject of heightened government regulation» would run afoul of the constitutional principles at the heart of America's founding and undermine liberalism's unequivocal commitment to religious autonomy....

However well - meaning the intent, the effect is to discriminate against religious choices.

«Discrimination comes from ignorance» yet this Todd Steifel guys is doing exactly that, discriminating against religious believers.

Likewise, in an interview with RedefinED, Michael Bindas of the Institute for Justice argued that the First and Fourteenth Amendments forbid discriminating against religious schools.

The attorney general's office also warned the DOR that it is their proposed rule, not the scholarship law, that is unconstitutional because discriminating against religious schools would put «Montana's Constitution in potential conflict with the U.S. Constitution.»

[xliii] In a stinging dissent, Judge Andrew Kleinfeld observed, «Discriminating against religious schools in a program of otherwise general availability makes no sense as a strategy for avoiding an establishment of religion, because treating everyone the same without regard to religion is hard to see as «establishing» anything — except equality.»

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

You also ignore the fact that Christians have done just as bad things as those living in the Middle East and those you would call doing the work of the devil: killing those who do not share their faith, using their religious position to gain wealth and discriminate against those who have different beliefs or lifestyles.

Heck, it's not all that different from our strategy when we complain that religious believers are discriminated against in secular universities.

State sanctioned rights must not be influenced by religious beliefs and a company which uses consumer money to donate to causes that continue to oppress and discriminate against those we «love» should be exposed.

Far from merely discriminating between what is religious and what is not, the Blaine Amendments discriminate against Catholic and other ecclesiastical authority and thereby carry out theologically liberal animosities.

These Blaine Amendments discriminate against the Catholic Church and against other relatively orthodox churches, whose attachment to their own distinctive authority and doctrine limits their ability to form institutions in concert with other religious groups.

You and I disagree on a lot of things, but I've said before and I'll say it again, if someone was going to discriminate against you because of what you believe (unless it was a religious organization that had different beliefs) I'd stand with you.

Do students and taxpayer's really want their tuition or tax dollars funding any religious group, especially those that want to actively discriminate against people?

I also hear of religious people seeking to discriminate against others that don't share their religion, primarily atheists, and often Muslims too.

As soon as religious beliefs are no longer used to discriminate against disliked groups, or to impede science and education, a lot of atheists will probably cease fighting them.

The educational system should be organized in a way that offers genuine freedom and treats every religious tradition fairly, neither discriminating against nor benefiting any unequally.

«The government has no place in discriminating against poor religious minorities or in pitting a religious education institution's faith - based identity against its American identity,» continued the statement, which was signed by 145 Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders.

In December the Court of Appeal ruled against her application that she was discriminated against in being compelled to perform civil partnership registrations contrary to her religious beliefs.

Critics say the Indiana law — and a pending religious liberty law in Arkansas — gives religious people a free pass to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Rather, what is happening, is that the religious nutters are demanding that they be allowed to enact legislation discriminating against gay folks.

There is a very simple difference — anti-gay people think they can control other people through law by denying them legal rights...pro - gay people understand that religious people have their rights to believe and worship freely, but not to discriminate against others via the law based on religious beliefs.

Commission chair Patricia L. Gattling said in her official statement that «Today, the NYC Commission on Human Rights settled the cases it had filed in August 2012 against seven businesses on Lee Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn based on gender and religious discrimination — the posting of signs in the store windows that discriminated against women.»

I'm not saying it's the best solution, but our law provides that all people will enjoy religious freedom and that they will not be penalized or discriminated against for observing their religious holidays at school or work.

FBOs must not use governmental funds for purposes of «Sectarian worship, instruction, or proselytization,» and they must not discriminate against beneficiaries on the basis of religion or require them to participate in religious practices.

I am a Christian and I feel I'm being discriminated against by atheists when I'm told I can't celebrate a religious holiday or erect a display.

They aren't even really human so you can't discriminate against them...» The fact that the religious feel this way about atheists is shameful and disgusting but it's true.

Because Jeremy the religious have been screaming in humanities faces for millenia — smashing planes into buildings, killing hundreds of thousands in crusades and inquisitions, blowing themselves up on buses, discriminating against women — dressing them in cloth bags and keeping them from power in their own churches.

One advantage you get out of separation of church and state is that you are allowed to discriminate against non-Christians and Christians you don't approve of in religious workplaces such as Christian schools when secular businesses aren't allowed to discriminate based on religion.

The state is forbidden, they will say, to discriminate explicitly against the religious choice.

In recent years there are encouraging signs that the Court is moving away from extreme separationism to a doctrine of «equal regard,» meaning that institutions and practices can not be discriminated against simply because they are religious in nature.

The issue here is that the owners of a company should not be able to use their personal religious views to discriminate against their employees.

«If the court believes that Christian views on homosexuality can be discriminated against, the state has taken a position on a moral question; namely that such religious belief is morally problematic,» said Andrea Minichiello - Williams, the director of the legal group.

It is supremely hypocritical for anyone in the military, AND against the law, to discriminate or force anyone to participate in a religious gesture as part of a government funded and sanctioned activity.

I have no problem with companies run according to religious beliefs as long as they don't discriminate against anyone and don't contribute millions of dollars to causes specifically desigened to deny rights to any group of people.

Any law that discriminates against gays, that prevents women from having abortions, that prohibits gays from getting married, are all based on Christian beliefs — not scientific, not reasoning, just christian religious beliefs.

I applaud a company that was built on religious ideas, if they do not discriminate or use company profits to discriminate against anyone.

The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain religious terms in its organization's name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization's mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.»

«It's very straightforward that people shouldn't be discriminated against for race, gender, sexual orientation, and — or religious affiliation,» Obama said Monday.

«It's very straightforward that people shouldn't be discriminated against for race, gender, sexual orientation, and - or religious affiliation,» he said.

It opens the door for someone to discriminate against gay people because of their views on the subject, or so any of thousands of religious based nonsense.

I'd sacrifice my life in the name of the freedoms this country was founded on before I'd shed a drop of blood to defend your right to exclude or discriminate against someone for something as fundamental as religious belief.

He argued that a Christian facing problems at work with religious expression needed to consider their position and that they were not discriminated against if they still had «the choice of leaving their job and finding new employment».

Seven states — AL, TX, MS, ND, SD, VA and MI - have passed bills allowing adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ children, youth and qualified prospective parents — as well as other prospective parents who don't pass an agency's religious test.

For example, in case number 87 C 10746, Gutzmacher v. Public Building Commission, in U.S. District Court for the Northern District ofIllinois, Eastern Division, Senior Federal District Judge James B. Parson ruled on Dec. 4, 1989 that the Public Building Commission was enjoined from discriminating against all forms of religious expression and ordered the Public Building Commission to permit Gutzmacher to erect a nativity scene display during the Christmas season,» added Scholten.

In 2013 the ECtHR ruled that a British Airways employee who wished to wear a visible cross around her neck had been indirectly discriminated against, in violation of her freedom of religion, due to her employer's ban on the wearing of religious symbols.

Preventing individuals from discriminating against others on the grounds of their sexuality is not a violation of the right to religious expression.