Sentences with phrase «held religious conviction»

More was voicing his fundamental objection to being compelled to accept the king's new title of being the supreme head: it was an invasion of prerogative of conscience of that in part of the divine law of God since it applied man - made law to the deeply held religious conviction of the individual.

In Greenawalt's words: «With some uncertainty and tentativeness, I hold religious convictions; but I find myself in a pervasively secular discipline.»

Do strongly held religious convictions inevitably conflict with our system of public education?

When you attack somebody for their deepest held religious convictions; is that not a form of fascism?

«But the government should not penalize law - abiding people, especially those who are American citizens, simply for holding their religious convictions, however consistent or inconsistent, true or false, those convictions are.»

With a.271 average, Thomas had been one of the better players on the team despite holding religious convictions that caused him to miss games between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday.

Not exact matches

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

«Today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions,» the statement said.

And the real kicker is that the photographer who refused to take pictures at the gay wedding, for a couple who may have held deep religious convictions, would happily grab my money for the same service even though I think their religious beliefs are coo - coo for cocoa puffs.

Issue after issue, Charlie Hebdo mocks, not vice and folly (which are fair game), but many people's most deeply held and cherished beliefs, including their religious convictions.

To force doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and others in the health field who hold pro-life or orthodox religious views to choose between their careers and their convictions.

Christian's year of living «gay» leads to dramatic change, sparks controversy Timothy Kurek's motivation to spend a year pretending to be gay can be boiled down to a simple conviction: it takes drastic change to alter deeply held religious beliefs.

Out of religious and moral conviction we tend to praise people for their high intentions, and to sympathize with their sense of inability to live up to the ideals they hold.

Achieving that goal will require coercion; that is, forcing doctors (and other medical professionals, such as pharmacists) to participate — even when it violates their religious beliefs and deeply held moral convictions.

The regulations exempt employers who object to treatments like birth control pills, emergency contraception, and sterilization due to «sincerely held religious beliefs» or «moral convictions.»

(c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or

On Tuesday Mr Scoffield said the case, a simple transaction, raised an issue of principle since those with deeply - held religious or philosophical convictions could be compelled to act against their beliefs.

They crafted a constitutional order that intended to make a person's religious convictions, or lack of religious convictions, irrelevant in judging the value of his political opinion or in assessing his qualifications to hold political office.»

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

They are also anchored by deeply held convictions — be they around behavioral standards, educational models, or religious practices — even as the school changes in other ways.

TPM Muckraker reports that SB 137, also called «Matt's Safe School Law» now includes language stating that the bill does not prohibit First Amendment rights, and «does not prohibit a statement of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil, or a pupil's parent or guardian.»

There is so - oooo much fuzziness regarding what was actually decided: What constitutes a «closely held» corporation; how is a «sincere» religious belief determined, and by who; who speaks for the convictions of the corporation; and Obamacare aside, what if said religious belief calls for discrimination against blacks, gays and / or women?