Sentences with phrase «of religious holiday»

As a result, the division of religious holiday access requires some planning and consideration to ensure that the children's best interests are met.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about whether the dredging of the Hudson River is over and a local town that is taking down all of its religious holiday signs.

There should be NO school days off for observance of any religious holiday, period.

When I was going to school (back in the stone age) teachers were asked to be aware of religious holiday and not schedule tests or teaching of important new concepts.

If your kids have school of your religious holiday take them out stop trying to force others to give you what you want because you don't like the schools to be neutral.

They should ban any kind of acknowledgment of religious holidays, including Christmas, or make sure there are NO school or government events for EVERY religion.

Let's hope they don't celebrate one of their religious holidays and bring one to school or to the new mosque near the World Trade Center in New York City.

Muslims are not unique in that school is in session on certain of their religious holidays — Jewish kids, Hindu kids and Orthodox Christain kids, among others, have the same situation.

The observance of religious holidays should be allowed for and recognized, but not on a «wholesale» basis.

They recommend workshops for educators regarding the appropriate place of religious holidays in the schools.

As the ethnic diversity of Canada's population grows, so too does the religious diversity of its workforce — and the calendar of religious holidays has expanded correspondingly.

Not exact matches

Personal days can cover things like the illness of a child, a death in the family, jury duty, military obligations, or religious holidays.

Of course, things like extended illnesses, a death in the family, or religious holidays can always force an employee to miss work.

Brooks also reminds Schultz that Trump once proposed a boycott of the coffee chain when many claimed that its seasonal red cups weren't merry enough for Christmas — even though the holiday cups have never included the words «Merry Christmas» or invoked any religious imagery.

Any religious holiday runs the risk of doing that, and, no matter how secular it has become, you can't spell Christmas without Christ.

Rather on focus on the holiday's religious origins, the Nazi version celebrated the supposed heritage of the Aryan race, the label Nazis gave to «racially acceptable» members of the German racial state.

Several workers also told the Guardian that they were fired from the factory just before Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that began at the end of May, and rehired a month later in what they believe was an effort to make them ineligible for a religious holiday bonus that is required by Indonesian law.

The religious holidays of all ethnic groups were celebrated, and even small local - language newspapers and TV channels were financially supported by the state.

The demand of gold reflected over the next several months and characterized by the purchase of the metal for cultural celebrations and religious holidays, I refer to as the Love Trade.

Christ, as time has many different names from many different cultures and the christians forcibly converted people to stop them from celebrating THEIR OWN religious holidays that fell at the same time of years millenia ago.

We know from their actions of today how Christians think they're being «persecuted» if they can't festoon their religious holiday decorations all over everybody's property and make everybody else recite Christian prayers at all public occasions or stamp their theology on our money and insert it into our pledge of allegiance.

Some people observe the religious reasons why the holidays exist but there's a lot of people that don't.

The religious also don't want to realize that «Christmas» was stolen from the Pagan holiday of «Winter Solstice».

But people going way beyond the call to do the right thing, nor the holiday of thanksgiving in general, are not religious issues and ought not be on a «Religion Blog».

It has NOTHING to do with Santa and Religion, it has everything to do with the fact that JWs do not celebrate ANY holidays including, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day or their own birthdays - it is part of their religion and they should not be forced to wear ANY symbol of ANY holiday whether secular or religious.

Though the geopolitical makeup of each Arab Spring country is different, Shea and other religious freedom scholars say that a pious holiday like Easter presents an opportunity for anti-Christian groups to seek out worshipers.

Religious folks baffle me sometimes... Wear the darn hat and enjoy the spirit of the holidays.

EEOC is trying to make the case that while the vast majority of Jehovah's Witnesses would never accept employment as a gift wrapper continuously wrapping birthday and holiday gifts, their JW Client's personal religious beliefs allowed her to do so, thus the only legal issue is their client's personal religious belief against wearing the Santa Hat and Apron.

For Jews, a prayer over wine is part of the sabbath service, sabbath meals, all religious holidays and special religious events such as weddings and circumcisions.

Silly old palm Sunday, X-mas, other Religious holidays that require the stripping or destruction of a tree or bush or fruit... what ever.

The traditional versions of both kinds of holidays have usually been associated with religious feasts.

Well, if CHRISTMAS is a religious holiday celebrating resurrection of CHRIST the CHRISTMAS TREE is religious as well...

Trump's promise that «everyone will say Merry Christmas» when he's president appeals to those who think being wished «happy holidays» by a store clerk is a form of religious oppression (and who apparently remain unconcerned about how Trump's mandate will be enforced upon those of other faiths).

how rude of all of us not to observe YOUR religious holiday.

Plato, for example, calls the religious holiday an anapausa, a breathing spell.16 We see it in children's play where a new space and time are set apart for the duration of the play experience — the back yard becoming a jungle or the Western prairie where the Indians and the cowboys are fighting.

There are a lot of holiday customs which are also referred to as pagan even though they lack a religious element, or developed entirely from Christian elements.

In other words, they're dumb enough to get in a self righteous name calling uproar for the simple sake of offending amd being offended over a religious holiday they don't beleive in anyways but still want to celebrate.

Our churches, whose steeples dot every cityscape and small town in the land, are exempt from paying taxes, and unlike many people of other faiths, we don't have to worry about fighting with our employers to take time off to celebrate our religious holidays as they are largely taken for granted.

An atheist hates the thought of Christmas because of its religious inflection but will celebrate the holiday with its Pagan purpose.

Excuse me then of not crying large tears over your atheist plight of wanting to celebratie a spiritual holiday that you don't beleive in, and additionally being upset that Christians actually call it by a religious name.

«I think that we really can provide a positive alternative to religious holidays that are not meaningful because of their religious content.»

The rest of the world isn't going to stop, nor should it, while they're observing their religious holidays.

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If you have problems in allowing religious holidays for one religion, then you can't have holidays for any of the others.

In my experience, school children of non-Christian faiths are excused from school for religious holidays.

We do not celebrate Jewish holidays (except maybe in New York City), nor any of the Indian, Chinese, African, or even other Christian holidays (such as the Eastern Orthodox holidays; there are many more religious holidays on the Christian calendar than Christmas and Easter).

Not to mention Christmas Break is just one of the Christian religious holidays.

The United States is not a christian nation, therefore, we should respect the religious holidays of major minority religions as well as the christian ones.

If you don't think winter break is specifically built for christian religious holidays, then why don't we change the break to be a celebration of the New Year starting on Jan 1.

Many of us have religious holidays that are not recognized by the school boards across America.