Sentences with phrase «for free exercise»

Religion - State separation is a pre-condition for the free exercise of human rights.

John Paul II in Centisimus Annus (§ 16) writes that the state «must contribute... by creating favorable conditions for the free exercise of economic activity.»

In addition, Berns largely ignores the practice of the founding generation, which accommodated a far more public role for the free exercise of religion than the American Civil Liberties Union now tolerates.

That is a far cry from separation and an encouraging sign for free exercise.

Our first instinct in the legal battles spawned by the progressive excesses of the last few years is to reach for the free exercise clause, which after all exists to protect religious people's ability to live out their faiths in practice.

Not exact matches

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«They're being punished for the exercise of free speech by CNN.

The billionaire investor says a free press is «vital for public debate,» but that journalists must «exercise judgment» when it comes to invading a person's privacy, and should condemn those who willfully cross it.

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Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's most famous religious conservative today, essentially denied the plaintiffs free exercise of their religion.

For precisely the same reasons that I found your statement to be laughable, the government must insure that mechanisms are put in place to insure that the actual persons granted free speech rights by the Supreme Court (the owners of the corporations) are the ones actually exercising their new rights instead of having those rights stolen by fat - cat executives and self - appointed boards.

Just think of all the free time you'd gain back for your family, for exercise, or for reading The Washington Post.

First, the Indiana law explicitly allows any for - profit business to assert a right to «the free exercise of religion.»

Constitutional Amendment 1: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances»

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

Even if you have «exercised free will» it may be chalked up to «god works in mysterious ways» or «god must have some plan for me.»

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

Within the classical liberal tradition, there is desire for a political system to respect the right to live free from physical force, for a government of limited function in the protection of rights, and for powers to be exercised in accordance with laws objective and universal.

The «double taxation» of parents who choose a religious education for their children unjustly burdens the free exercise of religion, and that is clearly a matter that engages the propria of the Church.

The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered.

Since 1972, the year after Lemon, the Supreme Court has rejected every claim by an individual to a free - exercise exemption, with the sole exception of claims for unemployment compensation, which are controlled by clear precedent dating back to 1963.

The reason Mitchell is not on trial for blasphemy is because the first admendment bans both the establishment of religion and the restriction of the free exercise thereof.

The brochure for the latter states that it is open to the free exercise of scholarship in the interpretation of the Qur «an and invites non-Muslims to share in the debate.

If, on the other hand, the new Court majority really does favor Scalia's reading of «free exercise,» religious exemption is out the window for the foreseeable future.

Camus rejects «static,» eternally existing values, for they would remain fixed and unaffected by history; he prefers a «situation ethics» where free men can exercise novel solutions to problems.

Just don't think for ONE SECOND you have the right to stop them from their free exercise NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU WHINE.

The controversy shows «the stakes of a state that imperils the free exercise of religion and the freedom to dissent» and «how important it is for religious freedom advocates to stand together,» he added.

Federal court rules that secular, for - profit corporations do not have a right to free exercise of religion.

«It is unusual, to say the least, for us to file for the government in a free exercise case,» wrote BJC general counsel Holly Hollman in an op - ed for Religion News Service.

This also precludes free will in that you are again suggesting that a person's exercise of free will is irrelevant given god's knowledge of what's best for them.

Second, these children and infants were expressly judged and executed for the acts of their parents in direct contradiction of the basic Christian tenet of divine judgment based on an exercise of free will to choose evil or reject god.

It is not unusual therefore to find pastoral care «overlooking what was mildly wrong,» in order to take seriously what matters more urgently.7 Effective pastoral care must be free to exercise a kind of tolerance for vice, allowing a certain compulsion to continue while deliberately reducing another more dangerous one.8

We need to face the facts: The Obama administration and many legal scholars advanced arguments for curtailing the free exercise of religion that draw upon central tenets of liberalism.

The U.S. system of governance is at a tipping point where we have to decide (and are about to) whether we believe in the free exercise of enterprise and good will of the people or whether we will subjegate our freedom for the care of a bureaucracy.

Under the free - exercise clause every person is entitled to respect for her or his religious commitments, and their free exercise should not be burdened by governmental interference except to secure «compelling state interests» (such as protection of public health and safety, not just public welfare or order) that can be served in no less burdensome way.

For you to be «American enough,» as you put it, you must accept the fact that most of us will exercise our free speech and say that I do not believe a word that you posted has any truth to it.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

The court has been whittling back on both free - exercise and establishment - clause claims in favor of wider amplitude for the exercise of the powers of government.

First, the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights has been making free exercise arguments for abortion for twenty years, and these claims were routinely rejected even by pro-choice courts, even before Smith.

(1977), Patricia Kreml's Slim for Him (1978) and Neva Coyle's Free to Be Thin (1979), which sold more than half a million copies and spawned a virtual industry of Coyle - authored diet products, including an exercise video and an inspirational low - calorie cookbook.

One saw evidence of this, for example, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decreed that when religious counseling is informed even in part by secular psychology, it ceases to be religious and is entitled to no free - exercise protection.

And, having devoted much of my time at Princeton to fighting for free speech, I am glad to see you, my friends, exercising your First Amendment rights and voicing your dissent.

For the Jeffersonians and evangelicals a constitution too quickly becomes cold and external, a shell for the pursuit of self - interest rather than a space for the exercise of free initiative in the public intereFor the Jeffersonians and evangelicals a constitution too quickly becomes cold and external, a shell for the pursuit of self - interest rather than a space for the exercise of free initiative in the public interefor the pursuit of self - interest rather than a space for the exercise of free initiative in the public interefor the exercise of free initiative in the public interest.

«The present life is a wholesome discipline, affording room for the exercise of free will and the attainment of goodness, which without our effort would be destitute of moral worth.»

I think we should create a new holiday, and call it parody Mohammad day, in memory of those who died for exercising free speech.

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.

For instance, this: «The free exercise of religion has been called the first freedom — that which originally sparked the development of the full range of the Bill of Rights.

They are there in order to facilitate the First Amendment - guaranteed free exercise of religion for our servicemen and women.

With a subjective interpretation and adjudication of such cases, we need reassurance that such would not restrict the free exercise of religion for our chaplains and military personnel.

IMHO schools should only close for Federal holidays (aside from things like winter / spring / summer break) as that eliminates the risk of First Amendment challenges («establishment of religion» and»... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof»).