Sentences with phrase «free exercise protection»

The First Amendment's free exercise protection, ruled the court, did not require the military to accommodate Captain Goldman's religious obligation.

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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 seriousness of the problem is revealed by the fact that, although Trinity Lutheran has come before the Supreme Court as a free exercise and equal protection case, the Blaine Amendments most centrally collide with the Establishment Clause.

But Madison advanced this case not in the service of a protection of the free exercise of religion but rather in opposition to the establishment of religion.

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.

But in many recent cases they have tended to agree more readily on another thesis: that the free - exercise clause does not interpose protections of religious obligations and practices that it once did (from 1940 to 1981), and that the establishment clause does not have the, force against government action that it once did (from 1948 to 1985)

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.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:7 7 We believe that rulers, states, and governments have a right, and are bound to enact laws for the protection of all citizens in the free exercise of their religious belief; but we do not believe that they have a right in justice to deprive citizens of this privilege, or proscribe them in their opinions, so long as a regard and reverence are shown to the laws and such religious opinions do not justify sedition nor conspiracy.

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..

America has been remarkably favored — «blessed» if you prefer — by a wise and constitutional policy of non-preferential protection for the free and responsible exercise of religion.

Preparations are already underway to make the case before the Supreme Court that state Blaine Amendments violate the equal protection clause and the free exercise clause of the Bill of Rights.

They produced a diploma of [Hulegu] guaranteeing express protection and free exercise of their religion.

«We support the protection of all Americans including the right to the free exercise of religion, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.»

Choice supporters claim that such discriminatory exclusion violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and the First Amendment's free exercise clause.

With their pro bono representation, I sued several Washington officials, among them Governor Gary Locke, arguing that the state's exclusion of theology majors from the Promise Scholarship program violated my rights to free speech, free exercise of religion, and equal protection under the laws.

If state courts rule that the amendment requires that religious students and institutions be treated differently than secular ones, as Martinez's ruling seems to imply, it could potentially raise a federal challenge under both the First and Fourteenth Amendments as a violation of free exercise and equal protection.

This means that excluding religious schools may violate not one but three separate constitutional provisions: the equal protection clause, the free exercise clause (which protects the free exercise of religion), and the free speech clause.

The equal protection clause and the free exercise clause both prohibit discrimination on the basis of religion unless there is some compelling reason for the discrimination.

Admittedly, there are plenty of ambiguities in how the Court has interpreted and applied the equal protection, free exercise, and free speech clauses.

I think the best (and free) protection is to exercise common sense in protecting your personal information, review your credit report regularly, and follow - up on the FTC's advice and alerts regarding identity theft.

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In addition to the constitutional claims you might expect here — for violations of the students» rights to free speech, free exercise of religion and equal protection — the complaint contains a Fourth Amendment claim based on an illegal seizure of the «rubber babies.»

See Bowen v. Roy, 476 U. S., at 706 - 707; id., at 705, n. 15; Yoder, 406 U. S., at 218; see also McDaniel v. Paty, 435 U. S., at 628, n. 8 (noting cases in which courts considered claims for exemptions from general criminal prohibitions, cases the Court thought were «illustrative of the general nature of free - exercise protections and the delicate balancing required by our decisions in [Sherbert and Yoder,] when an important state interest is shown»).

«The exercise of what amounts to censorship, then, can legitimately be viewed as the stifling of commercial free speech, which has constitutional protection.»

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