Sentences with phrase «for some religious people religious»

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On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

I won't get into any religious issues or get preachy here, and I'm not even encouraging meditation, but every person on the planet who has to work for a living needs to follow this basic routine.

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for two cases that will decide whether your business is equivalent to a person, and whether companies can also seek exemptions from federal law based on religious beliefs.

In Turkey, more than 32,000 people were put in jail and 100,000 have been dismissed from jobs in the security and civil services for their alleged links to a religious network the government says staged the July 15 military coup.

«Extending the right to religious freedom, clearly designed for an individual person, to a corporation would have repressive consequences to the American workplace,» says Justin Nelson, president and co-founder of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

As the Supreme Court gets ready in June to rule on the issue for the second time in two years, conservative states have rushed to enact so - called Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sexReligious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) laws that would allow businesses to object on religious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sexreligious grounds to serving LGBT people and same - sex couples.

As weddings grew more secular over time, and people weren't limited to dress codes of religious buildings, strapless dresses (for brides, bridesmaids, and guests alike) skyrocketed in popularity.

The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

Indiana's law, for example, allows people and businesses to claim exemption based only on the likelihood that their religious freedom could be infringed, said Katherine Franke, a professor of law and director of the Center for Gender and Sexuality at Columbia University, in New York.

Despite the demonstrable negative consequences in states that have passed laws that undermine LGBTQ equality, the coming months will indicate whether the ascent of Donald Trump to the White House is emboldening religious conservatives to press for more such bills after a series of gains for gay and transgender people at the federal level under the Obama administration.

It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Now, in addition to raising money for things like vet bills, personal emergencies and whatnot, people can also raise money for travel (community trips or for medical needs), family - related causes (adoption, etc), religious events and volunteer supplies.

Walshe also critically flags how — again, at the point of consent — Facebook's review process deploys examples of the social aspects of its platform (such as how it can use people's information to «suggest groups or other features or products») as a tactic for manipulating people to agree to share religious affiliation data, for example.

We will never include home addresses or any other information about any person in our database that is not related to a business purpose, for example, information regarding: race or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or other similar beliefs; trade union membership; physical or mental health; sexual life; or criminal record.

Before 1984, people who worked for nonprofit, religious, charitable or educational organizations did not pay into Social Security unless they specifically chose to take part in the program.

A spokesperson for Facebook directed Newsweek to its community standards on hate speech, which said that the platform «removes hate speech» that directly attacks people based upon «race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, or gender identity, or serious disabilities or diseases.»

Greed for power, control, influence, adulation, etc. tend to define the failings of every religious person as they sublimate their primate instincts behind a mask of delusion.

For years, I watched in horror as most of the most remarkable, honest, hard working, compassionate, productive, contributing & patriotic; people one could ever hope to know in life & have the privilege of calling friends; die a slow, agonizing, disfiguring & vastly premature death, amidst the muted joy & exaltation of conservative religious groups & individuals.

Such a new ecclesiastical body is designed to allow these pathetic human beings, who are so deeply locked into a world that no longer exists, to form a community in which they can continue to hate gay people, distort gay people with their hopeless rhetoric and to be part of a religious fellowship in which they can continue to feel justified in their homophobic prejudices for the rest of their tortured lives.

Even people who aren't particularly religious can still relate to how I see the greater good, positivity and reaching high for it.

And Obama is all for the government not meddling in peoples religious affairs.

To think that some bunch of people, from one particular religious sect, can unilaterally decide to say some dead person is «baptised», and to think that such a declaration means anything at all for the spirit (if any) of the deceased, is bizarre.

They managed to deliver tax breaks for the rich and oil companies, that's indisputable, but not on any of the «moral» issues they've used since the early 70s to get votes from religious people.

You do not have to be a NASA scientist or a religious person to know that there has to be a designer who is responsible for this existence, just walk outside at night and gaze at the stars and ask yourself as to how did our solar system became so perfectly established and how our planets are perfectly aligned.

Mr. Hawking wins easy battles against uneducated (in science) religious persons, but taking his statement on perspective, He is based on assumptions with serious underlying problems, basically everything from mathematics, to the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and relativity, and the lack of proof and evidence for string theories, he is launching a very aggressive statement, probably his last effort on life to counter the anthropomorphic ideas of God, and this is very common in all scientists.

Religious people and atheists drive me nuts for the same reason: they're certain about the unknowable.

For the cartoon, it takes two people to push someone down with abusive religious language.

@Ralph N, For the record, though no one forces belief in god (except parents), religious folk are endlessly trying to impose their moral beliefs on people who don't share them.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

You religious people have been claiming the end is near for 2,000 years now.

The more educated one becomes the less religious one is... when you see educated politicians and professional people of all kinds talking religiousness it's lip service for the ignorant... it's part of their job... other wise there's trouble from the little people.

I think that our children's children will look back at history and see the cause of the AIDS epidemic in America for what it was... not just the result of unprotected sex between promiscuous gay men... but the result of religious and social persecution of gay people that pushed them into unhealthy lifestyles and expression of their sexuality.

When atheists begin a debate with a religious person, it's because the atheists are bullies who have no respect for the beliefs of others.

Tell me, if the school charged the actual market value for the use of this space and the use of equipment, etc. and if that market value actually reflected the cost to the public, then the issue might become clearer to you because these religious people would scream at having to pay full price and the cost of any damages they may inflict upon the public property they are using illegally.

How much hatred is shown on here for people with religious beliefs, and the hatred is spouted in the name of tolerance and equality.

Mr Farahani also contended that people can not be sentenced on political charges for simply belonging to a religious fellowship.

They would be on much better intellectual and moral ground if they just allowed for the fact that yes, the religious Jews had Jesus killed so that they could protect their authority, but that as much to do with modern Jewish people as the Romans killing the Maccabees has to do with modern Italians — it's utterly irrelevant.

For now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure woFor now there are many religious sects / denominations due to man - made doctrines and people who believe but are too lazy to read the word and seek God for themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure wofor themselves so they hook themselves to a sect / denomination and are taught the leaders belief system instead of the pure word.

This speaks to the «religious» people who do things for show.

With that mix up, religious people judged and condemned the world for immorality that the Lord Jesus Christ paid for with His «Precious Blood!»

Let's not forget what and how America was suposedly started as a place of relgious freedom by the pilgrams (according to so called american history books) these religious people proceeded to rob & kill the Indians who saved their lives, take & kill Mexicans for land & gold & oil enslave a whole group of people as property for financial gain all under the guise of being good «Christians» (WHITE) and now perceive all «Muslims» (NON-WHITE) are evil unless proven otherwise.

Isn't this what so many of us don't like about people who use religious tradition as a means for explaining their behavior... they're not CONSISTENT?

I will no longer temper my understanding of truth in order to pretend that I have even a tiny smidgen of respect for the appalling negativity that continues to emanate from religious circles where the church has for centuries conveniently perfumed its ongoing prejudices against blacks, Jews, women and homosexual persons with what it assumes is «high - sounding, pious rhetoric.»

I think people who are atheist should leave people who are religious the fk alone for once and mind your «god» damn business.

Zeus, Venus, Satan, Sheva, Krisna, Jesus, Allah... all embraceable man - made myths for people too mentally conditioned to honestly consider their own religious brainwashing, too lazy and / or stupid to actually confront and learn the science of mother nature, and too empowered / deluded by sectarian association to relocate their nose an inch away from the ass end of the sheep they follow in single file.

You atheists are doing it because you have nothing to do in this world except for bullying the religious people.

The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

You are absolutely right that they don't belong in the same conversation, but many religious people (Rick Perry, for example) suggest that evolution is an unproven concept and Intelligent Design is an alternative.

The smarter people are, the more likely they are to reject religious beliefs as necessary or healthy for themselves and the world.

Why is it that if someone hears voices other than» from god» he or she is a candidate for psychoanalysis or psychotropic drugs, but religious people are given a pass?