Sentences with phrase «liberties of other»

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.

Denial of your own meanness and actively engaged in the efforts to deny the liberties of others.

you are however free to believe as long as that belief does not interfere with the liberties of others of this great nation..

There is an incredible need for the world to understand and act to restore the liberty of others.

When policies do not presume or promote objective values, the resulting moral relativism, instead of leading to a society that is free, fair, just and compassionate, tends instead to produce frustration, despair, selfishness and a disregard for the life and liberty of others.

The problem is created when someone attempts to use their beliefs to create legislature that limits the liberties of others.

When a society or a nation tries to direct its course on the basis of aggressive self - interest, denial of the rights and liberties of others, economic greed, lust for power, race prejudice, vindictiveness, and deception, situations are created which if unchecked lead to war.

US Christians concerned to suppress the civil liberties of others are agitating in Wisconsin to burn a novel that is sympathetic to the plight of young homosexuals.

Not exact matches

Cook wrote that the government should drop the legal request and instead «form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties, to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedom.»

«The internet is the salvation for those of us who believe in liberty because it is an alternative way of getting around the system not only in the spreading of our ideas in this instance but in in terms of getting around the monetary system on the whole if they do permit crypto - currencies and other forms of transactions.

Among other pronouncements, he says he plans to return the country to its founding principles of liberty and limited government, should he win the election.

The person who eats 400 pounds of animal meat every year is treading on the environment for others, and so a meat tax could be implemented as a matter of protecting personal liberty.

Second, the image of God entails that men must be allowed freedom in their own minds («soul liberty») from coercion from other men.

It's quite hard to strike the right balance in our distant appreciation of the state, but Locke would likely suggest that it's a sign of poor breeding and inadequate education to complain too vociferously about the constraints on ourselves and others necessary to preserve our liberty.

In other words, his proposal, if it could be executed at all, would produce an individual capable of using liberty well and responsibly, inevitably embedded in a society in which most people would be sorely tempted to abuse their liberty.

However, even with the presence of Tokes and other Eastern Europeans, attention to concerns for religious liberty was minimal.

If you attempt to infringe upon the liberties and actions of others because of your beliefs, I have the obligation to demand that you provide verifiable evidence that your beliefs are based in fact.

The Secretary of State should rally corporate America and multinational companies to consider religious liberty along with other human rights concerns when companies decide where to invest.

Over at Mirror of Justice, though, Thomas Berg sounds a bit more worried: «a possible lesson here for religious - liberty advocates (applicable in other contexts too) is to beware of pushing the envelope too much.»

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

and I took the liberty of chiming in because if a claim has consequences for anyone beside the claimant those other people have the right to examine the claim and demand evidence for its truthfullness.

On a serious note, it pains me greatly to see our high - ranking government officials pandering to and dancing with these religious perverts and other enemies of liberty.

To other Bloomington residents, the sexual preference amendment signaled a victory for human justice and civil liberties in keeping with the spirit of American democracy.

when God sacrifices some interests in favor of others, it is always for the sake of promoting the greatest liberty for all.

There are many variants of this school of thought, one of the best known being John Rawls's conception of justice as fairness: every person has the maximum freedoms consistent with others» enjoyment of the same liberties; and inequalities are permitted only to the extent that such disparities benefit the most disadvantaged.

And they reduce them to slavery, treating them with afflictions they would scarcely use with brute animals... Therefore, We... noting that the Indians themselves indeed are true men... by our Apostolic Authority decree and declare by these present letters that the same Indians and all other peoples — even though theyare outside the faith... should not be deprived of their liberty or their other possessions... and are not to be reduced to slavery, and that whatever happens to the contrary is to be considered null and void.»

Legal academics have argued that this sort of harm strikes at the heart of the common good, and that judges should count it against the moral and religious liberty claims of those seeking to avoid complicity with others» sins.

Liberals generally are for the killing of babies and other horendous ideas that war against the sanctity and liberty of human beings... Giving men with this kind of a world view «equal time» isn't what I think God desires.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

One antecedent to this claim comes in the essays of Lord Acton on the origins of the idea of liberty, and other antecedents in the political writings of Jacques Maritain, Thomas....

On some Israeli causes they will find their best allies in dispensational premillennial fundamentalism, while on issues of civil liberties and other causes they will coalesce with moderate - to - liberal Protestants.

Your sense of liberty and freedom is what I have experienced as well, and so many thousands of others who are on the same path.

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

The result, as Pierre Manent and others have observed, is a paradoxical coincidence of absolutism and libertarianism, indeed an absolutism that grows in proportion to the increase in liberty.

The orders are also, in the Lutheran view, a school in which all citizens are educated to care for each other, to do their duties even against their egoistic drives, and to use their «liberty and ability to achieve civil righteousness,» as Article XVIII of the Apology of the Augsburg Confession puts it.

It will insist that any version of Christian faith that does not grapple with war and peace, human equality, hunger, civil liberties, the hard decisions posed by medical technology, and a host of other social challenges is not a version of faith worth the time of either pulpit or pew.

According to the Hartshornean understanding of perfect love, we might interpret the scriptural command — «Be ye perfect» — to mean that we are commanded to act from a social awareness that is perfectly responsive to the interests of all others, and for the purpose of promoting the greatest liberty for all.

The KGB could restrict Sharansky's diet to bread and water, and could impose a series of other punitive measures, but it could not alienate him from his fundamental liberty.

These senators take seriously the sentiment of George W. Bush's Second Inaugural Address: «The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

Within that sphere of liberty the individual has the freedom to express any opinion, to develop any tastes, to live life in his own way — a political philosophy which found its way, through Jefferson and others, into our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

According to Hartshornean and to biblical theism, then, what may appear to be God's failure to sympathize with the interests of the oppressed is never that; and furthermore, when God sacrifices some interests in favor of other interests, it is always for the sake of promoting liberty for all.

Neither religion clause should be subordinated to the other; each protects an important aspect of religious liberty.

The world would take note of what the gospel makes possible for those who confess their dis - ease with each other but still keep going, strangers locked in covenant, toward the better country of diversity and harmony, liberty and love.

This is not the mere expression of one's belief while giving other people the liberty to live their life as they see fit.

To be sure, the argument that Novak makes is relevant to the Americas south of the Rio Grande, but it is equally relevant to the experiences of all other nations, including those in Eastern Europe, presently engaged in the task of building institutions of liberty.

My relatively nonpartisan definition of JUDICIAL ACTIVISM has to do with an objection to «natural rights» or any other kind of «rights / liberty» jurisprudence — whether it flows from Randy Barnett or Rawls or Hadley Arkes.

I find her willingness to convert even though she questions the catholic church's positions on contraception, hom.ose.xuality, and «other aspects of religious liberty» a little bothersome, and I really hope she's not just caving in to pressure in order to get married.

It shows Washington clasping a walking stick in one hand, with the other reposing on a bundle of fasces (the Roman symbol of republican liberty).

Should they come to power, all other religions as well as other Christian denominations would be disenfranchised, and what kind of liberty would we have then?

It is the first in the First Amendment, and, many would argue, it is the source of all other liberties.