Have a religious
objection to same - sex marriage?
Matthew then goes on to address three common
objections to same - sex marriage: procreation, gender hierarchy, and gender complementarity.
The court will also hear an appeal from a Colorado baker with religious
objections to same - sex marriage who had lost a discrimination case for refusing to create a cake to celebrate such a union.
Chris Jobe, president of the Kentucky County Clerks Association, said he has heard from several clerks who have religious
objections to same - sex marriage, so they have decided to stop issuing any marriage licenses.
Not exact matches
I actually think these are essentially the
same objection: Mike wants
to know why he should listen
to a guy who is accountable
to no one.
The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners
to use religious
objections to deny
same - sex couples wedding.
Its hard
to respond
to an article if you never read it, the
same goes with the Bible, Its difficult for most Christians
to take seriously atheist
objections, when they most of them have never read the Bible
to begin with.
Any
objection you might make is rebutted in the
same manner you attempt
to rebut challenges
to your view, i.e. mysterious ways, unknown plan, etc..
We couldn't, and the
same people who raise the
objection that we can't know what was in the originals because we don't have them, would be claiming we can't know they are really the originals if we did claim
to have them.
(By the way, if you have a presentation of the Gospel which never gets the Romans 6:1
objection, then I submit
to you that you are probably not teaching the
same Gospel Paul was.
Yet Whitehead's own treatment there is highly vulnerable
to that criticism, and Religion in the Making does not entirely escape the
same objection.
Is our re-interpretation of Christianity in existentialist terms open
to precisely the
same objection?
For example, the Pew Research Center found this fall that 48 percent of Americans believe that owners of wedding - related businesses should be able
to refuse services
to same - sex couples if they have religious
objections, while 49 percent of Americans believe those owners should be required
to serve
same - sex couples.
Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined
to spend eternity in hell
to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful
to be spared the
same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent
to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my
objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation
to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.
He has other
objections of this
same sort
to traditional theological interpretations —
objections with which one must have a large measure of agreement.
When Muslims or Hindus or Rastafarians or White Unicornists start
to try
to rule this country with their fantasies, you will hear the
same objections.
The
objection to the claim that all religions are the
same is that «Christianity isn't a religion; it's a relationship!
Officially removing that stigma is a step toward normalizing certain actions, or at least delegitimating
objections to them, which is much the
same thing.
The
same is true in Sweden, where the Swedish parliament voted 271
to 20
to condemn a resolution passed by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe that supported the right of conscientious
objection for physicians.
And that impossibility illustrates several Catholic theological
objections to the notion that
same - sex couples can marry.
Teaching imprisoned blacks
to be silent could sound suspiciously like teaching women
to be «vulnerable» — and might draw
objections from the
same crowd.
But of course this
same objection could be put
to Jews and Muslims.
The general trend of Americans becoming more socially liberal has not translated
to the abortion issue in the
same way, and a major cause of that, it seems, is the emotivist
objection to abortion.
• In Texas, clerks who have religious
objections can refuse
to issues marriage licenses
to same - sex couples, with support from that state's attorney general.
• In North Carolina, the state legislature passed a new law allowing magistrates and other officials
to turn down gay couples, if those officials have a religious
objection to performing a
same - sex wedding.
In much the
same way that Martin Luther had posted his 95 Theses on the church door in Wittenberg on October 31, 1517, for the purpose of stating his
objections to the abuses he saw within the Roman Catholic Church and inviting church leaders
to gather and discuss these items, so also, the Five Articles of Remonstrance were an invitation by the followers of Arminius
to the followers of Calvin
to gather for the purpose of discussing these issues.
(3) Ambassador
to the Holy See: The administration rejected various
objections and forged ahead
to appoint an ambassador
to the Holy See, at the
same time granting full diplomatic status
to the pope's envoy in the United States.
Carried
to the extreme, this
objection renders utterly irrelevant the question of whether Christians and Muslims worship the
same God (which, it should now be clear, is not the most helpful way
to pose the issue).
It is possible, for example, that the fundamental Catholic theoretical doctrine of the primacy may continue
to exist as ground for division between Christian denominations but that at the
same time the historical situation will impose on the Catholic Church, with the quiet inevitability of an inescapable environment, an actual practice of the primacy
to which non-Catholics themselves will scarcely be able
to raise
objection.
I would raise another
objection: in the previous chapter I urged that the term «complementary» be restricted
to models which, like wave and particle, are on the
same logical level.
As
same - sex marriage became legal in more and more states and then across the country, evangelicals and others with religious
objections have worried about their obligations
to accommodate gay and lesbian couples.
Against such a view we would have
to raise the
same objections as noted above against the pleasure calculus.
Another version of this
same fundamental
objection states that process thought does not do justice
to the eschatological elements of New Testament faith.
A further, less formal, and more general proof is included
to meet the
objection that my argument depends upon deriving the abstractive set a from an abstractive set and then deriving from a. Under these conditions, it might be objected that it is no wonder that a and should both belong
to the
same geometrical element.
Now the obvious Bergsonian
objection to this whole line of reasoning is that Peirce's arguments are telling only against the claim
to have an intuitive knowledge which is at the
same time conceptual.
But revolutionaries and reactionaries have the
same radical
objections to the capitalist present.
So many critics have made one and the
same objection to the doorway
to immortality which my lecture claims
to be left open by the «transmission - theory» of cerebral action, that I feel tempted, as the book is again going
to press,
to add a word of explanation.
My five - year - old son raised the
same objection early one morning while he was bouncing on the bed where I was trying
to sleep.
Recent developments are not particularly encouraging, as claims
to individual autonomy are generally thought
to trump the conscientious
objections of Christians, Jews, and others who might recoil at, say, funding abortions or issuing marriage licenses
to same - sex couples.
on revising the NRSV
to meet Rome's
objections and report that they have now received official approval for their rendering of the lessons used in Sunday Mass. (A further advantage of the Catholic edition of the RSV is that, unlike the Canadian Revised New Revised Standard Version, it is a complete Bible, meaning the
same text can be used for study and for liturgical purposes.)
The fans that have been protesting have based their
objections to Wenger new contract on the fact that the club has stagnated in the last ten years, with us practically scoring the
same amount of points in the League every year, and getting knocked out at the Round of 16 in the ECL.
Earlier in the
same week, Colin Barrow, Leader of Westminster Council, said that the Prince's involvement had acted as a «lightning rod» for other objectors, enabling more residents
to come forward and register their
objections.
The
same assertions you make opposing those of us who oppose
same sex «marriage» (sic)-- that we have «religious
objections»; that we're «bigots», etc. are equally applicable against
to our opposition
to polygamy, for example.
But Republican leaders withdrew their support of him after Conservative Party leaders raised
objections that the mayor had officiated two
same sex marriages (in keeping with the law, by the way) and refusing
to endorse repeal of the 2011 Marriage Equality Act.
In a CNN interview, Ball said he did not think the bill went far enough in extending religious protections for «individuals and businesses with religious
objections»
to marriage equality for
same - sex couples.
In any case, the
same low - profile
objection applies
to them, Murphy in particular, as
to Jowell.
The County Legislature will hold a Public Hearing on the Assessment Rolls at 2:30 p.m., local time, on November 9, 2016, in the Chambers of the Erie County Legislature, 92 Franklin Street, 4th Floor, Buffalo, New York,
to hear all persons interested in the subject, including any
objections concerning the
same
In a decision
to specific
objections, the signatures of Kimberly, Frank and Antonio Sparaco appeared
to be in the
same hand yet only one was invalidated.
It also adjourned the hearing of the state government
objection and the application for injunction
to the
same date of February 22.
That would seem
to be a good test of whether the method produces a good estimate of TCR independent of the uncertainty in E. I tried such a thing, and my main
objection to the Shindell (2014) paper is that when I test the «simple» Otto method vs. the Shindell method on the
same model set in the paper, the Otto et al (2013) method still seems
to perform better.