Sentences with phrase «nonreligious individuals»
«And the best social scientific research shows that religious and nonreligious individuals are, overall, quite similar in their orientation to science.
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Religious individuals or groups are quite free under our Constitution to advocate or oppose policies on religious grounds or nonreligious grounds.
None supported ending the special status religious individuals enjoyed under the Free Exercise Clause in favor of a new rule that treats religious and nonreligious citizens equally.
Employment v. Smith 494 US 872 applies this to criminal acts, holding that «The Free Exercise Clause permits the State to prohibit sacramental peyote use» and «the [Free Exercise] Clause does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a law that incidentally forbids (or requires) the performance of an act that his religious belief requires (or forbids) if the law is not specifically directed to religious practice and is otherwise constitutional as applied to those who engage in the specified act for nonreligious reasons».