Sentences with phrase «infringe on religious practices»

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to decide the constitutionality of a federal law that makes it far more difficult for the government to infringe on religious practices.

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Today the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released what it claims to be the first quantitative worldwide study on how governments and societies infringe on the religious beliefs and practices of individuals.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

However, safety concerns were not sufficient to outweigh a Sikh student's right to wear a kirpan (ceremonial dagger) to school in the case of Multani c. Marguerite - Bourgeoys (Commission scolaire).31 In upholding the student's claim, the Supreme Court emphasized that religious tolerance is important in Canada and that measures that might infringe on religious adherents» beliefs ought to be tempered, to the extent possible, in order to accommodate the free exercise of those beliefs and religious practices.32