Sentences with phrase «exercise of religion even»

(a) Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, except as provided in subsection (b).

Congress passed RFRA in 1993, which required that» [g] overnment shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the government demonstrates that application of the burden to the person --(1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest».

The 1993 federal statute states, «Government shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability» without compelling government interest.

Not exact matches

Never mind that these words appear nowhere in the Constitution, nor even in the First Amendment («Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof»), nor in the debates over its framing, nor in the documents that were its source and inspiration.

If we are serious about the free exercise of religion, we should protect free exercise whenever we can, by protecting sincere religion in most cases even if we realize that human error will prevent us from protecting it in all cases.

You know — every time I see religion debated on a public forum, the whole thing is an exercise in mental futility as both the atheists and even some of the Christians make the same type of mistakes over and over again and just yell back and forth at each other.

Even though the cosmic process is hopeless, the absurdity of the universe as a whole provides each of us with the opportunity to exercise a kind of courage to create our own meanings and values that would be impossible if we thought, with religion, that the universe were itself inherently purposeful.

But even if that bastion were, regrettably, to fall, a further protection should be maintained to safeguard the free exercise of religion on the part of organizations seeking to carry out what members believe to be the duties of conscience required by their religious obligations; i.e..

In fact, one could make the case that anyone attending the dinner, even the two candidates, would, by the vibrant solidarity of the evening, be reminded that America is at her finest when people, free to exercise their religion, assemble on behalf of poor women and their babies, born and unborn, in a spirit of civility and respect.

It is difficult to imagine a more obvious violation of the ban against laws «prohibiting the free exercise» of religion than a law that specifically allows such restrictions, even if there are some limits to the authority of governments to enact them.

When a one has naturally achieved, by one's natural capacity of reason, a metaphysical / epistemological system that has determined that to live a life of reason then one by necessity must exclusively exercise one's natural free volition to exclusively use man's natural capacity for reason exclusively on the natural world then one does not even reject religion's supernaturalism / superstitionism... one then has achieved the capability to say religion's supernaturalism and superstitionism is irrelevant to their metaphysical / epistemological system.