Sentences with phrase «many religious organizations»

On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

Colleges controlled by religious organizations always have been eligible to seek exemptions from Title IX.

Regardless of how the church managed to win recognition as a tax - exempt religious organization, that prize is worth hard cash.

«Banks and financial organizations — perhaps because that is where the money is — and nonprofits, including religious organizations, probably due to their weak business controls environment, are most often the victims of this type of white collar crime,» said Christopher Marquet, CEO of Marquet International, in a statement.

This is the most recent salvo by religious organizations against the Affordable Care Act's mandate for comprehensive health care coverage, which includes some forms of birth control.

(«Cash contributions,» which comes in third, is primarily donations to charities and religious organizations.)

More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since Obamacare became law in 2010.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints is a nonprofit religious organization commonly known as the Mormon Church.

The protections are expansive and would, for example, allow a religious organization to fire or discipline individuals based on religious belief, a landlord to refuse to rent to LGBT individuals, and a business to refuse to sell wedding goods to a same sex couple.

The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

Groups selling filter technologies have often overstated revenue estimates while religious organizations not wanting to legitimize the industry have under - reported their guesses.

Well, it would be just a drop in the bucket, but cutting off their tax - exempt status as a religious organization might mean a few more bucks in the federal coffers.

Anthony Levandowski is the CEO and president of a religious organization called Way of the Future.

This may be somewhat surprising (or not, depending on how you look at it), but religious organizations tend to have the best rate of success after the fifth year.

A 501 (c)(3) is a non-profit with tax - exempt status, covering qualifying charitable and religious organizations.

If you work for a religious organization that doesn't pay into the Social Security program, you must pay Social Security taxes if your earnings are more than $ 100 per year.

Nonprofit organizations, including hospitals, religious organizations, charitable institutions and social welfare agencies

Actually, requiring Religious belief is perfectly legal for a religious organization.

Religious organizations are trying to claim a legal right to force scientific organizations to employ people who actively don't believe in science.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

Most religious organizations have their own rules that go directly against the teaching of the bible.

Being a member of a Religious organization does not make you a Christian, in fact, it probably prevents you from being one.

Circular religious logic will still never fully justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»

Unless Vanderbilt holds all clubs and organizations to the same standard (which they're not doing), then it is clear that they are wrongly targeting religious organizations.

Tax benefits for religious organizations fall into three general categories: tax - free donations, tax - free land and tax - free commercial enterprises.

Another is in gov grants to religious organizations,, that's OUR tax dollar, again not separation.

Given these new rules, the religious organization would have no mechanism for kicking these troublemakers out of their groups.

Religious organizations, like any other human organization, eventually revolve around money and influence, it can not be helped.

If a religious organization wishes to have a tax exemption, it must stay out of election campaigns.

So this «attack on religious freedom» is based on a hypothetical fear that atheists will join a religious organization, work their way up the ranks to leadership, and then destroy the group from the inside out?

♦ Throughout the late and unlamented Cold War, no religious organization so assiduously toed the Communist line as the Prague - based Christian Peace Conference.

Its really becoming pathetic how infantile religion, religious organizations, and their zealots are over such a simple and moral code of NON-discrimination.

After a back - and - forth with a variety of Christian leaders, most notably the Catholic Church, the rule was amended and some religious organizations were given an exemption.

I'm guessing these objections are primarily aimed at gay rights rather than potential atheists running religious organizations.

FFS, she could have joined any other religious organization at that.

I'm also curious to know what religious organization you subscribe to.

Atheists have no more right to intrude on a religious organizations as religious persons have to intrude on atheist organizations.

Mr. Kurtz, as is usual in these discussions, makes no complaint about black churches that are much more overtly political, nor about other religious organizations on the left that frequently come much closer to «electioneering.»

Let's tax religious organizations once and for all.

The law, in fact, applies not only to religious organizations but to charitable organizations of a maddeningly wide variety.

So let me get this straight... religious organizations fight for their «right» to run schools like BYU that virtually write discrimination into their so - called «honor code», but when a school has a policy that forces them to NOT discriminate, that's when they have a problem?

Furthermore, your post speaks as if a few posts on a blog can equate all the hate and division that billboards and churches and presidential candidates and religious organizations have been «spewing» since time immemorial which you continue with your post.

It is reassuring that many of our current religious organizations understand that our nondiscrimination policy poses no threat to their religious freedom,» Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Richard McCarty said in a press release.

give your money to religious organizations and do not give your money to NOT FOR PROFITS in expensive, luxurious office spaces for example, like UNITED WAY..

The problem the religious organizations have is that the new anti-discrimination rules will encourage athiests to join religious clubs just to cause trouble.

You and I disagree on a lot of things, but I've said before and I'll say it again, if someone was going to discriminate against you because of what you believe (unless it was a religious organization that had different beliefs) I'd stand with you.

thank you for stating what any rational person would consider obvious (but these religious organizations do not)

Drew — Of course it would be wrong (and probably illegal) to fire you for being an atheist... unless you worked for a religious organization.

Why do people feel so compelled to attack any church or religious organization, unless Satan truly is loose in the world?

You don't think that people can be brainwashed into a belief system with the more subtle indoctrination techniques used by religious organizations and have it stick?