Sentences with phrase «equal dignity of»

Recognition of the intrinsic and equal dignity of human life underlies any plain reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The British Institute of Human Rights (BIHR) has led in this call and all the signatories to the letter to David Cameron and Nick Clegg are united around a fundamental belief in the equal dignity of all people and the legal protection of basic human rights.

Gender equity or equality: generally speaking there is a desire in Africa that the equal dignity of man and woman given to them by the creator be more fully honoured on that continent.

The equal dignity of all human beings, the freedom of the act of faith as the root of all the other civil freedoms, -LSB-...] are likewise central elements of the Christian Revelation that continue to model the European Civilisation.

But the conference fundamentally reinterpreted the meaning of the equal dignity of male and female recognised in the UN Charter in 1945 (see charter preamble which refers to the «equal rights of men and women»).

Abusing their trust, global governance agents of change use the fuzzy expression «gender equality» in the developing world allowing it to be understood as a policy enhancing a greater recognition of the inherent equal dignity of the woman, while in fact it hides their own agenda.

Acts of sodomy do not reflect the equal dignity of the participants.

In this sense, the equal dignity of each participant is respected.

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It is identical to racial issues: civil and church laws need to protect the truth about the equal dignity of all races because that truth allows us to treat others as persons.

Carroll largely agrees with Wills on the concrete achievements of the council — especially its affirmation of the equal dignity of the entire people of God and its view of Judaism — but goes still further in interpreting its «spirit.»

«Assimilating what is of undeniable value in secular modernity's embrace of religious pluralism, freedom of conscience, individual autonomy, and the equal dignity of men and women requires genuine discernment....

Not exact matches

This policy describes how the Institute works with its employees to ensure that its activities respect the dignity, independence, integration and equal opportunity of persons with disabilities.

Hence, although we are not God's equal, we are of equal dignity with each other.

Parents are not reproducing themselves; they are giving birth to another human being — equal to them in dignity and bound to them in ties of kinship, but not created for their satisfaction.

Devoting several chapters to Vatican II and its aftermath, Wills locates the council's fundamental achievement in its conception of the church as the «people of God» in which the laity and hierarchy are equal in their baptismal dignity.

One must make a reasoned decision about these truths, and in that sense the United Nations Charter and the Declaration reaffirm «faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, and in the equal rights of men and women.»

The Preamble of the Declaration recognizes that the truth «of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world.»

It is, I think, necessary to question what it takes for one to stand truly equal among one's fellows; to explore the limits of a rights - oriented approach to the problem of inequality between racially distinct populations in our contemporary national life; to deal with issues of dignity, shame, personal responsibility, character and values, deservingness.

human beings, «born free and equal in dignity and rights,» are entitled to human rights «without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

In ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, as also in encounters with those of no religion, all participants are of equal human dignity but their beliefs are not equally true.

It asserts that «recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world.»

Not all born of human parents, not all who share in the bond of human generations over time, will seem equal in dignity — if and when those practices become accepted among us.

Those who rejoice in Niebuhr's fulminations against Stalinism, or Russian betrayals of human dignity, usually hear him with only one ear, and fail to listen with equal seriousness to his insistent reminder that the sins we see so clearly in others are likely to be the sins we most subtly replicate in ourselves.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

For in the teaching of the Gurus, as in the teaching of Jesus, women are of equal dignity in the eyes of God.

If I am right, however, a reconsideration of liberalism's two main commitments will not compromise but instead be the preconditions for securing equal human dignity and ordered liberty.

Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way.

Because «each person has a more - or-less articulate conception of what gives value to life,» a government does not treat each person with equal respect and dignity if it prefers one conception of the good life to another.

Or again, he saw the black citizens» human rights fight making a wise use of social and political power to gain equal dignity and redress old grievances.

An effort to make church a place where socioeconomic distinctions are broken down — where blue - collar and white - collar, rich and poor, are equal before their Creator — advances the double objective of building authentic communities and recognizing the dignity of every person.

«Fullness of life» may mean many things; but what is meant here appears from the fact that it is something which other faiths also offer in an inferior or equal manner and that it is elsewhere declared that «our dedication... is to the progressive realization of the dignity and worth of man in every area of life — political, economic, social and religious.»

Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples «ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

It took me some time to gain my self - confidence, my own personal sense of dignity and worth and value, to be able to talk to whatever person was talking down to me as though I was their equal.

Its warrant for this claim is that social changes, including recognition of the equal dignity and rights of women, «have worked deep transformations in the structure of marriage, affecting aspects of marriage once viewed as essential» (2, my emphasis).

And because of this, every person has innate value and is worthy of equal dignity and respect — regardless of race, gender, wealth, ethnicity, immigration status, background or any other factor.

And there is nothing controversial in the documents commitment to freedom and democracy throughout the world, to peaceful cooperation in international relations, and to «the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity; the rule of law; limits on the absolute power of the state; free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; respect for women; religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property.»

This argument» in the mouths of death penalty opponents committed to the sanctity, or at least equal dignity, of every human being» comes perilously close to suggesting that we should use an execution of one of our fellow citizens as a means to desired ends.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

The Defense of Marriage Act decision used rather sweeping language about equal protection and human dignity as they apply to the recognition of same - sex unions.

They have not conjured up a vision of an alternative society based on «dignity» and «community» that would include the now - excluded poor as equals.

To reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and...

The principles of justice Rawls devised require that any person's «life plan» be accepted as equal in dignity to anyone else's.

The term is used to justify a social injustice both in terms of denying gay and lesbian individuals equal treatment guaranteed by our Constitution and also denying them human dignity.

Whatever we perceive to be the truth about God, I think there is some things we all can agree on, believers and anyone who doesn't believe in the existence of God and that is that it is self evident that all are born equal and with dignity and it's best if everyone relate to each other as part of the human family.

However, Endeavour Forum's principles adhere to the binary human division of male and female: we maintain that men and women are equal in dignity, but different and Vive la différence!

We are unwilling to let the mystery of personhood — equal in dignity to our own — unfold in the lives of our children.

If it was not for the followers of Jesus, who tried to live his teaching, we would be living in a society were terms like equal dignity would have no meaning.

Our changing domestic and global circumstances require solidarity, a commitment to institutions and policies that advance the common good of equal dignity and freedom for all, Hollenbach argues.