Sentences with phrase «for religious»

Bill Donohue, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, said all the reaction has been overblown, especially by the mainstream media.

The mess could be cleared up if the government gave a clear exemption for religious nonprofits and «faith - shaped communities» like it did for churches, according to a press release from the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance:

«President Trump might issue an executive order providing for religious liberty protections.

But his victory does not necessarily represent a victory for religious conservatives.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

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.

The language of mythology, or, as I myself prefer to say, metaphor, is the language which religion speaks; it can do no other, for religious faith is neither scientific formulae nor philosophical concepts, but a dramatic, poetic, symbolical way of speaking of the deepest realities and our apprehension of them.

This will be used as another excuse for religious cleansing of the copts from egypt.

That's good news for Hobby Lobby, as well as the plaintiffs in 71 other lawsuits pending against the ACA, says Mark Rienzi, senior legal counsel for The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

We can be encouraged by the work of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which spends time and money defending people of all faiths, including Muslims.

Eighteenth - century Oxford should have been a good venue for religious training.

But advocates for both religious and LGBT rights continue to weigh in on the proposal.

At present this urgently requires a well - argued case for religious freedom; [13] without it Christians will certainly sufferbut society will suffer immeasurably as it loses the spirit of Christianity which has contributed so essentially to the freedoms and values which have benefited it for so long.

In fact, Jesus» harshest words were reserved for the religious elite and self - righteous, who, in many ways, made their religion violent in that they used it to exclude and oppress and marginalize.

The decision in Smith held that the First Amendment provided no special protection for religious liberty claims brought against «generally applicable laws.»

Theological education must prepare persons for religious leadership in those circumstances.

Maybe the only big temptation for religious people (who are the ones who would say such a prayer!)

Adopted two years after the assassination, India's constitution sought to temper religious passions and provide for religious liberty.

It is hard to discern the near - and long - term prospects for religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities in India.

The commission recommended that the United States «integrate concern for religious freedom into bilateral contacts with India... and encourage the strengthening of the capacity of state and central police to implement effective measures to prohibit and punish cases of religious violence.»

«But it is already a significant loss that he is willing to speak of LGBT as a protected class — a legal category inherent in [SOGI] laws that have caused problems for religious liberty all over the country.»

This bill would have limited it to students who were preparing for a religious career, such as ministry.

(UPDATE) Justices don't have a final answer for religious organizations that oppose Obamacare's contraception mandate.

Contraception has been in the news lately in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that closely - held corporations whose leaders object to contraception for religious reasons can opt out of covering contraception as part of their employee health care plans.

James Madison seconded the notion in The Federalist papers: «Security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights; it consists in the one case in a multiplicity of interests and in the other in a multiplicity of sects.»

Indeed, the reason that Congress overwhelmingly passed RFRA in the first place (97 - 3 in the Senate, by acclamation in the House) was a disturbing Supreme Court decision in 1990, Employment Division v. Smith, which lowered the First Amendment's protections for religious liberty.

In Oriental Mysticism, Altizer maintains that the teachings of Jesus and the Buddha exhort one to suspend «the quest for religious ontology and mystical knowledge.

The latter gave way to uneasy toleration that included released time from state schools for religious instruction.

Remember, no one is being forced to work for these religious organizations.

The number they killed collectively for religious reasons is tiny.

So you don't think the religious murdered for religious reason?

CNN: Group: U.S. pastor is shut out of his trial in Iran An American Christian pastor being tried in Iran for his religious beliefs was «shut out» of his own trial Tuesday, a religious group said.

Whitehead recognized, in Science and the Modern World, that metaphysics alone could not go «far towards the production of a God available for religious purposes.»

The emperors and their nobles encouraged education by grants of land and money to mosques, to lodges which served as residences for religious training, and to individual saints and scholars.

Humbly, respectfully and prophetically, she petitioned for a religious freedom to uphold and support the sacredness of every at - risk, unborn child, saying, «I want the child.

This is increasingly evident in contemporary culture, where the search for religious truth is often supplanted by the idolization of supposed tolerance.

This is our starting point: the Bible as source for our religious truths.

For this reason I gladly stand for religious liberty alongside people who do not believe the same gospel that I do.

Why should we have to delay business for a religious display?

While the two clergymen continue to Jerusalem to report for religious duty, the Samaritan sees it as his religious duty to prioritize the human need before him.

Accommodations for religious institutions have been somewhat more rare, and accommodations for private businesses owned by religious people all the more so.

If churches want to to run hospitals, schools and other businesses that, but for their religious affiliation, are no different than any other business, it should comply with the laws that govern them all.

These laws were satisfying to those who for religious or other reasons believed that marriage is a union or a contract for life that can not be dissolved except in the most exceptional circumstances.

A government meeting is NOT the right place or the right time for your religious display.

@ Colin Hitler and Stalin were both atheists who murdered millions, many for their religious beliefs

Stand up for religious freedom.

Same goes for the religious that think they have all the answers... I've seen many of them here on this site.

It is a waste of the peoples time, that government business has to wait for a religious display.

If 60 people attend the meeting and you take 1 minute for your religious display, you wated 1 hour of the peoples time.

But if we look to the Bible for religious truths such as these, that doesn't mean that we also look to it for authoritative answers in the realm of the physical sciences or medicine or astronomy or geography.