Sentences with phrase «like voluntary associations»
His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.
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Churches are voluntary associations and if you don't like them you don't have to go to them.
Brigitte August 13, 2011 12:38 pm Churches are voluntary associations and if you don't like them you don't have to go to them.
Like them, it looks to voluntary associations rather than government agencies to carry out a social purpose.
This is not just a logical nicety but an important protection of the freedom of association — a freedom that has been safeguarded in decisions like NAACP v. Alabama (357 U.S. 449, 1958), which held that a state may not compel a voluntary association of citizens to turn over its list of members because that might subject them to governmental penalties.
Here, the church as voluntary association in somewhat like a religious civic club.
Be active and adventurous: Get out of your past and, develop your friends circle by joining group activities like cooking, hiking, voluntary social work, Book clubs and other community associations.
Their participation is very like, but much more onerous than, voluntary involvement in a professional association.
Despite resistance to the change, the result of having a voluntary trade association separate from the regulatory agency seems like a good thing.
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