Sentences with phrase «like quakers»

«It was petty and authoritarian to ban faith organisations like the Quakers from holding civil partnership ceremonies, when they clearly expressed a wish to do so.

Iain McLean has again entered the fray, arguing that the upcoming consultation on same - sex marriage will make it necessary for minority religions like Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews to defend the right of other denominations and religions to refuse to participate in marriages of same - sex couples, which they object to on moral grounds, in order to protect religious freedom.

This is a cross-party question of policy that addresses a felt need by LGBT people and religious freedom for minorities like Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews, as well as for those, like the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England, who disagree.

It was also seen in smaller denominations, some old, like the Quakers, and some new, like the «Plymouth Brethren» (who preferred the simple designation of «Brethren»).

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.

And while later, radical groups like the Quakers embraced silence and the promptings of the Spirit, most of the others got a lot of verbiage.

Like Quakers or Jews, they will feel strong needs to provide defensive islands for their youngsters.

Not exact matches

Quakers (like Nixon) don't consider themselves to be Protestant, and Agnew was raised Greek Orthodox and later converted to the Episcopalian Church, a church that dropped «Protestant» from its name starting in 1964 due to the church members» opposition to identifying themselves as Protestant.

This can take various forms (including «Fighting Quakers» like Major General Smedley Butler), but the basic idea that the core of the gospel and the core of the Quaker mission is ultimately peace, both spiritual and worldly.

So it seems like anyone who is a Christian should be doing exactly those things, and I am utterly at a loss for why Quakers are peculiar in enacting this strong Christian witness in the world.

They still occassionally suffer from violent attacks upon them — like other children in this country unfortunately do when at school — but they are allowed to live as they please — and probably would have no trouble getting a passport and yes — they might have that they are a quaker on their headstones — but if they were a christian quaker — they could say that too.

Forms of church government differed; but nobody except the Quakers challenged the notion that a religious local community needed a general overseer, no matter whether he lived in (like the Baptist preachers who farmed during the week) or out (like the circuit riders of Methodism).

At the global level, Quakers like to think of it as «creating the world that ought to be.»

Some bird species, such as Amazon parrots and Quakers, seem to be predisposed to high cholesterol and triglyceride levels and to coronary artery disease, just like humans.