Sentences with phrase «funding of any religious organization»

The fears about standing and about funding of religious organizations are important questions of law, but both were satisfactorily resolved under the Supreme Court's traditional standing rules and there is no reason to think RFRA would reopen the issue.

After Blaine's proposed amendment failed to become part of the U.S. Constitution, 36 states passed their own constitutional amendments barring state funding of religious organizations, including religious schools.

The other amendment would repeal a Florida state constitutional provision that prohibits public funding of religious organizations.

The least restrictive Blaine Amendments, such as the one in Kentucky, forbid only direct funding of religious education; the most restrictive Blaine Amendments, such as those in Florida and Georgia, prohibit both indirect and direct funding of any religious organization.

First, some Blaine Amendments forbid funding of religious education while others more broadly forbid funding of all religious organizations.

Not exact matches

This is the 10th edition of the report hailed as the «Bible for socially progressive foundations, religious groups, pension funds, and tax - exempt organizations» by the Chicago Tribune.

Churches, church conventions or associations, as well as religious and apostolic organizations, including corporations and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

Supporters of George W. Bush's faith - based initiatives plan, which would shift some of the responsibility and funding for social services onto religious organizations, often stress that the plan isn't radically new but rather an extension of accepted practices.

Yet another restriction of religious freedom comes in the form of monitoring of or outright bans on foreign sources of funding — the lifeblood of many church organizations and other NGOs in India.

Aggressive and legal fund - raising on the air made possible the creation of huge distribution systems for the televangelists — all with the bonus of being tax free as religious organizations..

On the one hand, language at the beginning of the Charitable Choice provision makes it clear that the rules are intended to protect the religious character and autonomy of the organizations receiving government funds.

In an attempt to give religious groups some guidance in navigating between Charitable Choice's front and back ends, some religious organizations have begun work on a «Code of Conduct» by which FBOs accepting government funds regulated by Charitable Choice would pledge to operate.

That is, if a Jewish FBO runs an hour long, publicly funded computer skills training class that includes a one - minute prayer by the instructor at the beginning of class, that FBO is not engaging in «sectarian instruction»; it is simply being true to its character as a religious organization.

Though they spend a part of each program soliciting funds for their organizations, the FCC has ruled that paid - time religious programs are not commercial - length programs.

Funding under the AFLA went, as Congress intended, to a wide variety of recipients including state and local health agencies, private hospitals, community health associations, privately operated health care centers, and community and charitable organizations, many of them with ties to religious denominations.

The executive order in question, issued by President Clinton and affirmed by President Bush in 2002, states that while religious organizations that receive federal funds can not discriminate against beneficiaries of their programs, they «may retain religious terms in its organization's name, select its board members on a religious basis, and include religious references in its organization's mission statements and other chartering or governing documents.»

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

Americans, these days, give some $ 300 billion a year to charitable organizations, including religious institutions that fund vast networks of education, health care, and social service serving people in real need.

«President Obama should ask Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf where the funding for the mosque is coming from and whether he views Hamas as a terror organization before he tries to deflect the very real security concerns at issue by instead lecturing New Yorkers on matters of religious tolerance.»

Questions during the off - topic portion of the press conference included his opinion of the expected Democratic candidate in the 11th Congressional District special election and whether he'll campaign for Gentile, the prospect of Department of Homeland Security losing funding, religious organizations renting City school facilities for prayer / worship services and the related lawsuit, a NY Post report criticizing a newly - created NYPD training program, reported terror threats against shopping malls, the absence of a Lunar New Year message from the mayor and his non-attendance at the Lunar New Year parade, his reaction to Governor Cuomo's comment that their relationship will be «the best relationship between a mayor and governor in modern political history,» his scheduled trip to Albany on Wednesday and delays in federal funding of Sandy rebuilding.

Councilmember Greenfield, a former vice president of the Sephardic Community Federation, heads an outside organization that is dedicated to securing government funds for religious schools, and he boasts in his online Council bio that he has been successful in securing $ 600 million in tax credits for parents of school children not in the public schools.

The agency would help religious organizations and houses of worship find grant funding.

Borrowing from New York's playbook, Illinois funders, advocates, and parents built an extensive coalition of religious organizations, community groups, and, surprisingly, some blue - collar labor unions (not teacher unions) to advocate for the reform.

Arizona passed a scholarship program funded by tax credits and subsequently found itself sued by the ACLU (and nominal plaintiffs that it rounded up) because many of the scholarship organizations were religious and sent recipients to religious schools.

In an analogous case, it relied on the free speech clause to strike down the University of Virginia's (UVA) refusal to allow a religious organization run by students to receive funds that were made available to secular organizations.

But they are also not accountable to the same public purposes and oversight as our fully public schools, and many of them are religious organizations that are now going to be getting public funding.

It's been gummed up because of a faith - based protection provision that would allow adoption agencies to receive state funding while turning away prospective parents who don't fit with an organization's religious beliefs.

The appeal of neo-vouchers is that the funding for a religious school's tuition doesn't come directly from the state; it comes from the nonprofit «school tuition organization.»

Public funds should be spent on public schools, not private schools state the coalition of public policy, education, religious and civil rights organizations in the joint letter.

We have helped thousands of schools and education organizations, non-profit organizations, communities, humane societies, animal rescues, pet adoption centers, animal organizations, horse, dog, and cat clubs, religious organizations, churches, sports teams, fire departments and police departments raise needed funds.

[4] Identification of a judge's position in educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organizations on letterhead used for fund - raising or membership solicitation does not violate this Rule.

(1) an interest in the individual holdings within a mutual or common investment fund; (2) an interest in securities held by an educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, or civic organization in which the judge or the judge's spouse, domestic partner, parent, or child serves as a director, an officer, an advisor, or other participant; (3) a deposit in a financial institution or deposits or proprietary interests the judge may maintain as a member of a mutual savings association or credit union, or similar proprietary interests; or (4) an interest in the issuer of government securities held by the judge.

A lawyer is often involved in a non-legal setting where contact is made with the media about publicizing such things as fund - raising, expansion of hospitals or universities, programs of public institutions or political organizations, or in acting as a spokesperson for organizations that, in turn, represent particular racial, religious, or other special interest groups.