Sentences with phrase «freedom protections»
The Associated Press reports that lawmakers modeledKansas House Bill 2203 — known as the Religious Freedom Preservation Act — after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which originally provided federal religious freedom protections in state courts.
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«This Executive Order is good, lawful public policy that reinforces existing religious freedom protections in law and affirms that President Trump's administration will respect the religious freedom rights of all Americans.»
It's an argument that courts previously have been hesitant to address, because it means weighing in on a key question, which CT addressed in February: Do corporations have federal religious freedom protection under the First Amendment?
With 1 in 3 states soon allowing gays and lesbians to wed, religious freedom protections get unexpected advocate.
Support The Health Freedom Protection Act - FDA and FTC Censorship robs the American people of health information indispensable to their exercise of freedom of choice.
On the record thus described, it is argued, somewhat faintly, that the acts charged against the defendants were not unlawful because within the protection of that freedom
The far - reaching question underlying the case is whether state constitutional provisions that strictly bar government aid to religion violate religious freedom protections in the First Amendment.
Take, for instance, last summer the State of Illinois revoked Catholic Charity's adoption and foster care licensebecause Catholic Charities didn't comply with the «Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act,» which says gay couples must be treated the same way as heterosexual couples.
Chuang ruled that the agencies were likely to succeed in proving that the travel ban portion of the executive order was intended to be a ban on Muslims and, as a result, violates the U.S. Constitution's religious freedom protection.
This is why robust religious freedom protections have regularly failed almost completely when state legislatures have enacted same - sex marriage laws.