The First Amendment Defense Act can and should protect the free
exercise of religion without ignoring the freedom of speech, press and assembly for the non-observant as well as the devout.
After Smith, the government would be free to penalize, punish, or prevent
the exercise of religion without serious constitutional scrutiny so long as the law applied to nonreligious entities as well.
Not exact matches
The right to
exercise religion,
without governmental assistance that otherwise tramples on the rights
of minority sects is paramount in his thinking.
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.
The free
exercise and enjoyment
of religious profession and worship,
without discrimination, shall forever hereafter be guaranteed; and no person shall be denied any civil or political right, privilege or capacity, on account
of his opinions concerning
religion; but the liberty
of conscience hereby secured shall not be construed to dispense with oaths or affirmations, excuse acts
of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the good order, peace or safety
of the state.
That through which all
religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance
of the morphology
of the age and
exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence
of the
religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this
religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from
without and an original and unlimited one from within.
None
of the goods humans cherish, including the free
exercise of religion, can flourish
without a measure
of civic peace and security If evil is permitted to grow, good goes into hiding.
Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter
of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated
without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the
religion which, guided by the light
of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form
of the Christian
religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may
exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters
of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction
of public schools in which the youth
of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic
religion should no longer be the
religion of the State to the exclusion
of all other forms
of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»
A federal regulation which requires lenders to promote the availability
of credit to all creditworthy applicants
without regard to race, color,
religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age (provided the applicant has the capacity to contract); to whether all or part
of the applicant's income derives from a public assistance program; or to whether the applicant has in good faith
exercised any right under the Consumer Credit Protection Act.
But the creditor must apply these tests fairly, impartially, and
without discriminating against you on any
of the following grounds: age, gender, marital status, race, color,
religion, national origin, because you receive public income such as veterans benefits, welfare or Social Security, or because you
exercise your rights under Federal credit laws such as filing a billing error notice with a creditor.
Typical, a judge can be informed in
exercising discretion afforded by secular law by an overall religious worldview
without infringing upon freedom
of religion (e.g. in judging what sentence within a range should be imposed) but may not cite to religious sources as authority for that decision.
Most aviation companies are committed to assuring that: All recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, and other employment related programs are provided fairly to all persons on an equal opportunity basis
without regard to race, creed, color,
religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law; Employment decisions are based on the principles
of equal opportunity and affirmative action; All personnel actions such as compensation, benefits, transfers, training, and participation in social and recreational programs are administered
without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law, and; Employees and applicants will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have
exercised any right protected by law.
The States Parties to the present Covenant undertake to guarantee that the rights enunciated in the present Covenant will be
exercised without discrimination
of any kind as to race, colour, sex, language,
religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.