Sentences with phrase «liberties of groups»

This narrative seems plausible to many, because we have been deeply shaped and trained to associate the word «liberty» with the freedom of individuals «to pursue their own ends»» requiring, among other things, the liberation of recreational sex from any consequences» and not the rights, privileges, immunities and liberties of groups, societies, associations, even a corpus mysticum like the Church.

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Now, however, Silicon Valley's reduced involvement frustrates civil liberties groups because of a widely held view that Section 702 poses a far greater threat to privacy than the telephone program, which did not harvest actual content.

Liability issues raised by companies and privacy concerns of civil liberties groups contributed to the failure to implement such laws.

(Reuters)- A Muslim civil liberties group said on Wednesday it wants a review of the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida.

They have joined civil liberties groups in demanding more transparency and insisting that information is turned over to the government only when required by law, often in the form of a court order.

After this story was initially published, David Rocah, an attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, said the civil liberties group also would seek a copy of the proposal.

The bishops are distancing themselves from Catholic groups that have expressed satisfaction with the «accommodation» offered to them by the president: Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association, for instance, told reporters she was «pleased and grateful that the religious liberty and conscience protection needs of so many ministries that serve our country were appreciated enough that an early resolution of this issue was accomplished.»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

Prominent academics and civil liberties organizations have raised the prospect of stripping churches of their tax exemptions and pursuing litigation to require private companies and civic groups to be led and staffed by people who pledge allegiance to the moral creed of the left.

The religious groups» reasons — that only they can identify a substantial burden on their exercise of religion and that the government needs to exempt the insurers of conscientious objectors along with churches and their auxiliaries — actually harm religious liberty, he argued.

Groups like the Family Research Council continue to characterize religious liberty and equality for LGBT Americans as an either / or proposition, willfully misrepresenting our nation's historical experience and ignoring the realities of a nation of many faiths and beliefs that has dealt with such questions for centuries.

Groups like the Family Research Council, screaming for preservation of their privilege to discriminate, are not defending liberty.

, destroy several places that are the only locations hudreds of thousands of women can get a general health and wellness check - up done, single out and destroy the civil liberties of a minority group of people in America, oh and start a new war.

Thus, if the commands of one with authority are perceived to lie within what might be called a «circle of permissibility» recognized by the church (or nation), those demands ought not to be considered infringements of liberty even if individuals or entire groups within the church disagree with particular decisions.

If there is any group of people that should be opposed to war, torture, militarism, the warfare state, state worship, suppression of civil liberties, an imperial presidency, blind nationalism, government propaganda, and an aggressive foreign policy it is Christians, and especially conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist Christians who claim to strictly follow the dictates of Scripture and worship the Prince of Peace.

Even today, as countless studies show, greater political activity characterizes those Protestant groups with the more «republican» religion; groups asserting «the church should stay out of politics» are those whose Christianity rests less easy with religious liberty or the democratic regime generally.

In April 2016, Christian groups including the Evangelical Alliance said plans for Sunday schools to be forced to register with Ofsted and undergo inspections amounted to an «unjustified restriction of religious liberty».

With strong emotion he called us» Americans searching for the roots of liberty, Eastern Europeans so lately liberated» to the authentic path of freedom and holiness, centered in the sacrifice of Christ, and raised the host to unite our group in a bond far stronger than argument.

Two groups of prominent religious liberty scholars (one led by Robin Fretwell Wilson, the other by Douglas Laycock) have written letters (such as this one from Wilson's group) to state legislators and governors considering same - sex marriage bills, imploring them to include various statutory provisions that would afford some protection to religious freedom.

The separation of Church and state and the legal recognition of the principle of religious liberty in both nations have led not only to pluralism through the protection of established religious groups and the encouragement of spontaneity and inventiveness; but have also fostered voluntarism in church organization and made the clergy largely dependent on lay support.

But we also need to reacquaint ourselves with our «grand tradition» of religious liberty, and with an equally grand tradition of political conciliation — of putting the common good of our nation above the special interests of whatever groups we favor.

Religious liberty has very quickly become of intense concern for religious groups across the country, especially for those that will be directly affected by the HHS mandate.

Since my aim is to defend a view dialectically rather than contribute to minutiae of scholarship, I take the liberty of combining his writings into an early group, ending with The Principle of Relativity, and a later group, including everything afterwards.

Carl H. Esbeck, an emeritus law professor at the University of Missouri who gathered the National Association of Evangelicals, the Assemblies of God, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, and other groups for an amici brief, believes that «specific religious - liberty protections» will be needed for churches, religious believers, and religious organizations.

If it is true that, bound by the collective interaction of its liberties, the human social group can not escape from certain irreversible laws of evolution, does this mean that, observed along its axis of «greatest complexity» (i.e. increasing liberty) the World is coiling upon itself with as much sureness as it is in other respects radiating outwards and explosively expanding?

Moral Majority and other groups for what they call «voluntary prayer» in the public schools threatens the religious liberty of the minority that will oppose prayer in general or particular prayers.

On the other hand, some groups have been suspicious of Sabbatarianism so strict that it might seem legalistic («If anywhere the day is made holy for the mere day's sake, then I order you to work on it, to ride on it, to feast on it, to do anything to remove this reproach from Christian liberty,» Martin Luther declared) or have emphasized, like the Quakers, that all time is holy with God.

A number of Protestant, Catholic and civil liberties groups challenged this special nod to one faith, declaring that such recognition jeopardizes the rights of other churches (and of individual Catholics) by creating a direct government link with the Vatican.

I am simply saying, without leaving the physical field, that the greatest discovery made in this century is probably the realisation that the passage of Time may best be measured by the gradual gathering of Matter in superposed groups, of which the arrangement, ever richer and more centralized, radiates outwards from an ever more luminous fringe of liberty and interiority.

We have become known as a group of people who sees themselves perpetually under attack, perpetually victimized, and perpetually entitled, a group who, ironically, often responds to these imagined disadvantages by advancing legislation that restricts the civil liberties of other people.

Yet the groups pushing the RFRA want to enact that test into law and leave its interpretation and application to those same «officers of the government» who have thus far shown no preference for religious liberty.

Terming the protections of RFRA as «extreme religious liberty rights,» the Foundation and associated groups go beyond even what the Obama administration requests, asserting not only that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood don't qualify for the law's protections, but rather that RFRA itself is unconstitutional.

One was McIntyre's insistence on total abstinence from alcohol, an issue the Machen group considered a matter of Christian liberty, while the Holiness and pietist traditions had long emphasized the importance of a Christian life separated from the world» no alcohol, tobacco, dancing, cards, or theater, along with no short skirts or bobbed hair for women.

Take any war, any struggle, or any fight by any nation or any group of people in the history of the world, in which their goal was liberty and freedom, and you will find countless atrocities, murders, and crimes, all committed in the name of liberty.

Beecher spoke for a vast majority of the American Protestants when he said that these groups «constitute a sort of disciplined moral militia, prepared to act upon every emergency, and repel every encroachment upon the liberties and morals of the State.

Rather, they are interested in protecting the security of their ethnic group and continue to maintain, often with great vehemence, that eternal religious invisibility in our public places is the «price of liberty.»

The group therefore insisted that «the work and mandate of the committee» set up by the Energy Minister to investigate the scandal continue, adding that «the alleged report at best be considered as one of the materials that the Committee may consider, and with liberty, based on evidence that it might recover, to agree or disagree with what is contained in the BNI Report.»

The Liberal Democrats said today's figures highlighted the need to use intercepot eivdence in court - a key proposal of civil liberty group Liberty.

An online poll by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch also suggested that as few as 12 % of people thought the bill would represent good value for money at a cost of nearly # 2 billion over ten years.

Today, civil liberties group Liberty sent a van around the capital attacking the Home Office for the «dog whistle» nature of the campaign.

Big Brother Watch, a UK civil liberties pressure group, said several of its online services were run via the US, meaning its website fell under US law.

The violation of this solemn place, the symbol of our liberty to have a government by the representatives of our people for our people by a group of mobsters and criminals can not simply be ignored.

Furthermore, it is a matter of religious liberty that the rights of religious groups to perform and recognize these unions not be hampered by civil law.

Confronted by terrorism, drugs and illiberal groups, how willing and able are the governments of the Philippines and Indonesia to balance national security prerogatives and popular demands with respect for civil liberties?

These peers have ignored the rather definitive findings of a cross party groups of MPs and peers in 2012, who found a snoopers» charter would disproportionately infringe civil liberties and be prohibitively expensive.

«There is no more important effort than the protection and expansion of the rights and liberties of the people,» said Richard Brodsky, a political scientist at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a former assemblyman who is working with other groups supporting a convention.

The move will be a massive relief to civil liberties groups and privacy campaigners, who had long opposed plans to hand details of users» internet use to intelligence agencies and police.

«This is of particular importance when the civil liberties of minority groups are threatened, as they are now by the repressive actions being taken by the Trump administration against LGBT people, women, religious and ethnic minorities, and immigrants.»

«Britain has a policing model much admired around the world and the police's political independence is as important as that of the courts,» civil liberties group Liberty's director of policy Isabella Sankey said.