Sentences with phrase «law against freedom»

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Faced with boycott threats from giant businesses, including Nike, Apple, Angie's List and Salesforce.com, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has vowed to alter the language of a controversial, religious freedom bill he signed into law just last week, to ensure businesses can't use it to discriminate against LGBT customers.

Even if the religious freedom laws aren't intended to allow discrimination against LGBT people, the point is, with the state RFRA laws it's possible.

While supporters say the law protects small business owners» religious freedom, critics say it will allow for discrimination against gay customers and drive business out of the state.

A couple of years ago, Benioff famously went to bat against several state laws that would allow business to refuse service to people based on sexual orientation under the umbrella of religious freedom.

And yet, without Christ, the divine gift of freedom is misused to rebel against God and reject his law.

Given the global backlash against the restrictions, any American influence — whether Clinton or Trump had been elected — would have offered evangelicals hope for easing the laws and improving religious freedom, Yoder said.

is simply too ingrained, too much a part of what sin is all about, for us not to feel vexed when reminders come of the opposite reality, which it is precisely the office of religion to provide: «Accordingly, it has always been the office of Religion to protest against the sophistry of Satan, and to preserve the memory of those truths which the unbelieving heart corrupts: both the freedom and the responsibility of man, the sovereignty of the Creator, the supremacy of the law of conscience as His representative within us, and the irrelevancy of external circumstances in the judgment which is ultimately to be made upon our conduct and character.»

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.

Again, anyone who supports Iran, Turkey, Syria or Pakistan's use of Islamic laws against non-Muslums in this country can leave now, and don't let the good lady holding the torch of freedom kick you on your way out the doors of freedom.

Atheist don't wan't the catholic church scorning / insulting them and they will try to use the law to prevent them however they want to attack the catholic church which is against the bill or fights in freedom of religion to do so publicily.

This is the assertion of the freedom of the Gospel over against the bondage of the law.

Thus it appears that in the debate between the customary liberal view3 that stresses man's freedom in the willful breaking of known moral laws and the neo-orthodox emphasis on unconscious sin as derivative from man's basic pride, anxiety, and rebellion against God, the truth may lie between.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has been at the forefront of the fight against the Johnson Amendment, initiating the annual Pulpit Freedom Sunday in 2008 in open defiance of the law.

Postmodernity claims the right to exercise one's freedom against the law of nature, against traditions and against divine revelation.

All we have in the USA is the Constltution to give us a tendency towards equality under the law, but the laws are unequally enforced, biased against non-believers, and a very shaky crutch upon which to rest our freedoms and rights.

Someone can not be a Catholic and be pro-choice and pro other wicked forms of «freedom and rights» which are not only against God's teaching but are also against laws of nature.

Never mind that you are de facto criminalising a wide range of perfectly law - abiding people, never mind that you are going against the centuries old notion that an Englishman's freedom should only be taken away in very precise and well - understood circumstances.

It's also useful to have laws against harassment or abuse, which limit the freedom of the person the messages are intended for.

Laws based on that misguided assumption have resulted in an almost open - ended campaign against basic freedoms that have drawn the ire of journalists, humanitarian activists and leading Muslim intellectuals who have had their rights infringed in the name of protecting national security.

The Empire Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the M.T.A., in an attempt to compel the agency to honor its Freedom of Information Law requests for payroll data.

Our laws if allowed to operate according to its spirit and letter, would have imposed legal limits on government's authority by guarantee us certain rights and freedom when fighting against these evil practices in our institutions but unfortunately for us, certain provisions and attitude of party apparatchiks make our leaders automatic dictators who act without limitations.

The Ledyard town clerk's bid to return to office was cast as a crucial test of balancing the new same - sex marriage law against the right to religious freedom.

Multiple state public authorities hired law firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to represent them amid a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's investigation that led to corruption charges against a former top Cuomo aide and seven other individuals, according to an engagement letter for a separate contract obtained Tuesday by The Alt through a Freedom of Information Law requelaw firm Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP to represent them amid a Manhattan U.S. Attorney's investigation that led to corruption charges against a former top Cuomo aide and seven other individuals, according to an engagement letter for a separate contract obtained Tuesday by The Alt through a Freedom of Information Law requeLaw request.

ALBANY — Calling the Metropolitan Transit Authority's refusal to release payroll information part of a «pattern of conduct,» the Empire Center for Public Policy has filed a lawsuit against the M.T.A., in an attempt to compel the agency to honor its Freedom of Information Law requests for payroll data.

In response to ESD's repeated delays and denials of Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests, Reclaim New York (Reclaim) filed a lawsuit today in State Supreme Court against New York State's lead economic development agency to obtain public records related to how the agency spent $ 246.5 million on advertising initiatives.

The city of Syracuse is taking a stand against Indiana's controversial religious freedom law.

One week after announcing they were exploring the option of requesting a judicial injunction, Assemblyman Ronald Castorina and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis filed a brief against the city, arguing that expunging the files of the IDNYC program would violate the state's Freedom of Information Law — which explicitly forbids the destruction of documents «with intent to prevent public inspection» — and would overstep the city's legal powers.

RWB also fights against censorship and laws that undermine press freedom, gives financial aid each year to 100 or so journalists or media outlets in difficulty (to pay for lawyers, medical care and equipment) as well to the families of imprisoned journalists, and works to improve the safety of journalists, especially those reporting in war zones.

Existing literature on infectious disease policy, ethics, and law, outside the context of genomics, describes the potential for stigmatization of individuals or subpopulations, the challenge of balancing individual interests and protections (for example, privacy, autonomy, freedom of movement) against risks of harm to others and to public health, issues of justice, and employer or health professional obligations [27], [28].

You are Sam Fisher, and you've been granted the ultimate license to protect innocents against an array of global terror attacks known as Blacklist - the freedom to use limitless power, to bend or break virtually every law, and to rise to the level of the world's most lethal operative.

The state of nature is, therefore, the state of freedom without external law, that is, no one can be obliged to respect the rights of others also and can not be sure that others will respect their rights and much less can be protected against acts of violence of others.

For this not to happen, and for there to be sustainable peace as well as credible progress against poverty before 2030, then what needs to be in place are «responsive and legitimate institutions» that «encourage the rule of law, property rights, freedom of speech and the media, open political choice, access to justice, and accountable government and public institutions» (UN-High-Level-Panel, 2013: 9).

Contrary to their notions, the reality is that the collegians who fueled the Freedom Rides and the Birmingham youth in the Children's Campaign were arrested, jailed, beaten and hosed down with water canons on the technical grounds of violating laws and injunctions against protests.

If the Bull Connors of the time weren't using laws to engage in suppression of freedom and equality, the civil rights protests wouldn't be called civil disobedience; they would have just been the rightful (and peaceful) protests against government actions protected by the Bill of Rights.

Because how do you tell people, «Well this great device that works really well, and it's the smoothest check - out process of any device or format that we offer here in the library — but it violates your privacy, it jeopardizes your intellectual freedom, and, you know, it might kinda be against state law, but I'm not really sure.»

At that time, the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Smithsonian Institution decided — against advice from 58 distinguished scientists, including Dr Soon's former divisional director, Dr. Eugene Avrett, and a 1993 Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate, Dr. Kary Mullis — that Dr Soon's personal emails, and all related grant proposals and details, should be made publicly available to Greenpeace in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act, from which the Smithsonian is by law substantially exempt.

That perspective is to favour as much personal freedom and independence as possible within an administrative structure that deals primarily with defence against external threats, the assisting of the unfortunate, maintenance of a basic infrastructure and the supervision of a light handed rule of law.

So on Friday the Obama administration stopped fighting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request and released documents showing that Hansen was paid $ 250 an hour by a Canadian law firm for testimony against developing Alberta's oil sands; income which Hansen does not appear to have disclosed.

The case arises in the context of a debate over the relationship between laws against hate speech and the principles of freedom of speech.

In addition to providing good insight into the current state of the law, he makes the argument that it would be good for society, including employers, if they could get over their basically reflexive anti-free speech reactions, while acknowledging there is little current legal basis to require them to do so, and conceding that freedom increases conflict which runs against [an] employer's «enduring goals of employee compliance, conformity, complacency and efficiency.»

· JCCF to argue that the Barristers» Society decision against TWU law school graduates violates Charter section 2 (d) freedom of association

The judge stated that while she felt these two members were sincere in their beliefs about the spiritual power of marijuana, and that the prohibition against pot possession limited their freedom of religion, laws against possession and trafficking were reasonable limits on their religious freedoms (as per Section 1 of the Charter).

Freedom of religion might provide a basis for a special overriding of a law against hate speech.

The reasoning would be that if religion Z teaches that individuals of the protected type Q are evil and must be denounced, then a law against denouncing Q restricts one's freedom to practice religion Z. And thus, if one's motivation for denouncing Q is specifically religious, a religious (and only religious) exception to the law could be created.

According to article 111 of the Constitution every citizen may appeal to the Supreme Court for violation of the law against any decision of the judicial authority, without issuing any appeal in civil or criminal, or against any meas - ure restricting personal freedom.

Immigration Law Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Self - Petitions U-Visa T - Visa I - 751 Removal of Conditions / Waiver of Joint Filing Requirement Naturalization & Citizenship Family Petitions Green Card Renewal DACA (Initial Requests and Renewals) Consular Processing Employment Authorization Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests Change of Status Domestic Violence Restraining Orders Enforcement of Support Orders or other Judgments

Many of the judgments against Turkey have been leading judgments in their field, contributing valuable principles to the corpus of international human rights law in areas as diverse as torture, killings, disappearances on the one hand and freedom of expression, the banning of political parties, the destruction of villages, expropriation of property, fair trial and the death penalty on the other.

Having examined the foundational weaknesses of the Bell coalition's website blocking plan (existing Canadian law, weak piracy evidence, limited impact) and its negative effects (lack of court orders, overblocking, ineffectiveness, violation of net neutrality, vulnerability on freedom of expression grounds, higher Internet costs, privacy risks), the case against the plan enters the final phase with several posts on how it fails to meet the requirements under the Telecommunications Act.

That statement of the law had to be counterweighed against the free speech clause of the First Amendment which provides that «Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech».

Whereas the expressed intent of the law is to add «gender identity and gender expression to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination» as well as amending the Criminal Code to «extend the protection against hate propaganda set out in that Act to any section of the public that is distinguished by gender identity or expression», some have argued that the law, under its commendable purpose, hides an agenda with the potential to curtail fundamental freedoms.