Sentences with phrase «holiday for every religious holiday»

It isn't possible to allow a national holiday for every religious holiday.

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Sure, there are the major holidays that are celebrated worldwide for religious reasons, such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Easter.

Brooks also reminds Schultz that Trump once proposed a boycott of the coffee chain when many claimed that its seasonal red cups weren't merry enough for Christmas — even though the holiday cups have never included the words «Merry Christmas» or invoked any religious imagery.

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

But as the 140 - mile journey can take four hours by car in traffic, Uber is betting that Romanians would rather fly there, especially this weekend, which is a long weekend in Romania, with banks closed on Monday for a religious holiday.

The demand of gold reflected over the next several months and characterized by the purchase of the metal for cultural celebrations and religious holidays, I refer to as the Love Trade.

Still, even letting non-believers know that they are not alone, especially during the religious holiday season, is beyond the pale for many religious people.

Though the geopolitical makeup of each Arab Spring country is different, Shea and other religious freedom scholars say that a pious holiday like Easter presents an opportunity for anti-Christian groups to seek out worshipers.

Religious holidays have long been a venue for terrorist attacks against all religious groups in the Middle East and NortReligious holidays have long been a venue for terrorist attacks against all religious groups in the Middle East and Nortreligious groups in the Middle East and North Africa.

x / mas is about Santa, Reindeer, gifts, lights, decorations, party's... not a religious holiday for me.

For Jews, a prayer over wine is part of the sabbath service, sabbath meals, all religious holidays and special religious events such as weddings and circumcisions.

Plato, for example, calls the religious holiday an anapausa, a breathing spell.16 We see it in children's play where a new space and time are set apart for the duration of the play experience — the back yard becoming a jungle or the Western prairie where the Indians and the cowboys are fighting.

In other words, they're dumb enough to get in a self righteous name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebrate.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

they're crying for the right to celebrate a religious holiday secularly, where.

They should ban any kind of acknowledgment of religious holidays, including Christmas, or make sure there are NO school or government events for EVERY religion.

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Christmas is more than a religious holiday — it is a time for everyone, not just Christians, and I am happy that atheist group had the balls to put that up.

To something else you said... «Christmas is more than a religious holiday — it is a time for everyone, not just Christians...» I don't think that any Christian would disagree with you.

Weddings, the harvest festivals, and the religious feasts were the only holidays for adults.

If you have problems in allowing religious holidays for one religion, then you can't have holidays for any of the others.

In my experience, school children of non-Christian faiths are excused from school for religious holidays.

You either close school for every religious holiday or none.

If you don't think winter break is specifically built for christian religious holidays, then why don't we change the break to be a celebration of the New Year starting on Jan 1.

Public school should not be let out for ANY religious holiday!!!

I can't believe that we are actually considering this, I'm not fond of all the holidays the schools take as it is, simply because it interferes with the taching schedules, not for any religious reasons, that said, since when do we care what the other countries believe their rights??

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Add to that the fact that Christmas has become less of a religious day, and more of a commercial (secular) day, and we definitely don't take off from work or school for any Christian religious holidays anymore.

For a public school to add a holiday for a specific religious festival (regardless of religion) would violate the the separation clauFor a public school to add a holiday for a specific religious festival (regardless of religion) would violate the the separation claufor a specific religious festival (regardless of religion) would violate the the separation clause.

For example, the school system could build in some flexibility to reasonably accommodate the minority's religious needs by allowing exams to be written on alternative days, or permitting extensions on assignments if the due dates fall on holidays etc..

School is their to teach our kids and get them ready for the real world who cares about religious holidays.

However, most schools are probably in session for most if not all other religious holidays.

I also note that most of us use our «religious holiday» for selfish reasons and certainly not for any purpose unto God.

However, there are a limited number of school days and the children simply can not be off for every religious holiday that comes along.

Give students Thanksgiving off (US holiday — non religious), Christmas, New Years, Martin Luther King day, the two Muslim days and find a Jewish day or two that works best for that religion as well.

So Muslims want days off from school for their religious holidays???, when the moderate Muslims start to profess their outrage at the radical Muslims then we'll think about it.

I'm not saying it's the best solution, but our law provides that all people will enjoy religious freedom and that they will not be penalized or discriminated against for observing their religious holidays at school or work.

I would say that we shouldn't include taking days off from school for these religious holidays.

For that fact, no religious holidays including Jewish ones should be observed in the public school system.

How does less than 1 % of this countries» resdients justify a religious holiday for the other 99 %?

If we who had to give up what was normal for century why should we now allow other religious holidays.

If you ask me, in public schools no holiday should be given simply for religious reasons — this includes Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and all other religions.

But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time off from school for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.

There is no holiday for christian religious days in any middle eastern country except may be lebanon, since it has a good sized christian population.

Guides were published about how to treat religious holidays in the schools, how to teach students about religious traditions, and how to create equal access for organizations, including religious clubs on campus.

The observance of religious holidays should be allowed for and recognized, but not on a «wholesale» basis.

We should not close our public schools for ANY religious holiday.

Muslims do have religious holidays as do Jews but for some reason -LRB-?)

Schools USED TO schedule days (or periods of time) off for religious holidays, i.e. - Christmas and Easter.

Anyone who thinks religious holidays are celebrated in public schools has not been in public schools for a long time.