Sentences with phrase «most secular state»

Quebec is now «the most secular state in North America,» Martel says.

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Admittedly, the Constitution makes the United States secular by law, but for most of our history, we have been Protestant by choice.

In most states, people can still be fired from their (secular) jobs just for being gay, or thrown out of their homes if their landlord doesn't like LGBT people.

They suggested three ways in which RFRA might conceivably be interpreted (misinterpreted, really) to create bad consequences: (1) to give a church's opponents legal «standing» (a technical term meaning the right to sue) to challenge the church's tax - exempt status; (2) to allow taxpayers to claim their free exercise rights would be violated if a religiously affiliated organization receives government assistance under a secular program; and, most importantly, (3) to allow pro-abortion plaintiffs to claim a free exercise right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overruled and states enact anti-abortion laws.

Ask yourself: what institutions are most likely to find their religious principles in conflict with the doctrines of the modern secular state?

Church and State, the journal of Americans United, has year after year recorded a succession of triumphs for a totally secular (not «neutral») school; it was in its pages a decade ago that Leo Pfeffer, perhaps the most distinguished of the separationist attorneys, announced «the triumph of secular humanism.»

But various historians, many of them «secular», have stated that based on the various tests for historic reliability, the Gospels are some of the most historically reliable documents of that time period.

Although they want to preserve a «secular state» in the face of Hindu nationalism and Islamic separatism (or Sikh independence), they only halfheartedly support those parties that most energetically promote secularism.

I think more likely that the churches would benefit, and the country would suffer, because the United States is a secular nation and it appears that most citizens want it to stay that way.

Although «secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.secular humanism» is a term used most frequently by Protestant Fundamentalists, it was Justice Hugo Black» in delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in a 1961 case, Torcaso v. Watkins» who distinguished between «religions based on a belief in the existence of God» and «religions founded on different beliefs,» such as «Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism, and others.Secular Humanism, and others.»

Most western states are secular states, even as they accommodate various forms of religious establishment and accommodation.