Sentences with phrase «on religious organizations»

The House tax reform bill fulfills a longtime goal of Christian conservatives by eliminating the ban on religious organizations making tax exempt political donations.

He afterward cited the federal health care act's mandates on religious organizations as an example.

These cycles might be expected to have their own effects on religious organizations.

Beyond this, we can readily make a great deal of headway toward understanding the social influences on religious organizations by focusing on familiar attributes of the national society.

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

A focus that is only on the religious organization and its mission, without regard to how it is manifested in the particular job in issue, would deprive the final element of s. 24 (1)(a) of the Code of any meaning.

So many people depend on your religious organization — and you can choose coverage that helps you spend your time and energy addressing their needs.

Not exact matches

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.

With the exception of North Carolina's legislation, the laws and proposed legislation are loosely termed Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) bills, and in their current form they give businesses and other organizations the right to withhold services from clientele based on religious obReligious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) bills, and in their current form they give businesses and other organizations the right to withhold services from clientele based on religious obreligious objections.

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.

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.

If you are employed by a not - for - profit organization, any time you spend on religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing may not be counted toward meeting the full - time employment requirement.

National Charities: organizations that are independent or are commercially - affiliated and national in reach; not focused on a particular region; do not have a specific religious and / or focus area.

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!»

They can't fund religious - oriented greek societies in any way, and they can't have policies which support selection for funded student organizations based on religion.

The whole concept of a non (insert religion here) person actually being in a position to lead a (same religious) organization on a campus is fanciful in the extreme.

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?

(xiii) the prohibition on little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, based on the religious views of their parents.

The project includes access into the Vatican's case files, as well as interviews with the organization's top exorcists - religious experts who are rarely seen on television.

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.»

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.

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.

The government has created the State Administration for Religious Affairs under its United Front Work Department to keep a close eye and a short leash on practitioners, effectively installing itself as the high priest presiding over the internal affairs of religious organReligious Affairs under its United Front Work Department to keep a close eye and a short leash on practitioners, effectively installing itself as the high priest presiding over the internal affairs of religious organreligious organizations.

I'm atheist and part of me thinks the organization's time could be better spent countering the religious hellbent on forcing their beliefs on instead of trying to prevent them from practicing peacefully.

If they make a profit on their organization, they do not have a stand on not paying for meds based on their religious beliefs.

Second, most of this article focuses on the social and interpersonal aspects that religious organizations provide to / for their members.

The policy goes into effect on August 1, but U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced in a statement January 20 that religious organizations that do not provide contraceptive coverage based on religious belief will have until August 1, 2013, to comply.

WHEREAS, hundreds of Muslim scholars and intellectuals from over 120 countries, along with representatives of Islamic and international organizations, as well as leaders from diverse religious groups and nationalities, gathered in Marrakesh on this date to reaffirm the principles of the Charter of Medina at a major conference;

Jehovah's Witnesses can no longer practice their faith freely in Russia, where the Supreme Court on Thursday declared the pacifist religious organization an «extremist group» and banned all of its activity.

«[N] on - state actors, including rebel and terrorist organizations,... committed by far some of the most egregious human rights abuses and caused significant damage to the global status of respect for religious freedom,» according to the 2014 IRF report.

The controversy pits leaders of religious groups that sponsor about 1 million Boy Scouts against activists who want the organization to end its ban on openly gay Scouts and Scout leaders.

AA is a religious organization built on a cult structure.

The Jewish organization alleges religious discrimination and unfair business competition, on the basis of several California statutes, including the state's civil rights act, which prohibits the refusal to engage in a business transaction on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin or sex.

Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.

Reports circulated over a draft of an executive order designed to expand protections for individuals, organizations, and corporations» religious convictions — including traditional beliefs on gender, sexuality, and marriage.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on IslaOn February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islaon House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islaon Islam.

Yet another restriction of religious freedom comes in the form of monitoring of or outright bans on foreign sources of funding — the lifeblood of many church organizations and other NGOs in India.

Under the order, organizations fighting the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate on religious grounds, including the Little Sisters of the Poor, would be granted accommodations.

Among other things, if the bill forbids colleges to engage in discrimination based on religious belief, they will be the only belief - based organizations barred from demanding that their employees commit to that underlying belief (an institution based on a secular ideal would not face the bar).

In the future, this may increasingly become the legislative and judicial compromise in religious - exemption disputes: The organization will be permitted to demand uniformity of belief but forbidden to discriminate based on any other ground.

It goes on to call for recognizing the legitimacy of a religious worldview «as a basis for socially significant action (including those taken by state) and as an essential factor which should influence the development (amendment) of international law and the work of international organizations.»

@cw You've just committed a genetic fallacy by discrediting and organization based on its religious background rather than the substance.

This research has sparked a growing movement on behalf of marriage supported by religious and secular organizations committed to helping families.

Adds the former president of a national environmental organization, who has looked in vain for support from religious groups in efforts to protect wilderness and wildlife: «The Unitarians occasionally let us meet in their buildings; that's been our primary contact with churches on this issue.»

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Aggressive and legal fund - raising on the air made possible the creation of huge distribution systems for the televangelists — all with the bonus of being tax free as religious organizations..

Inasmuch as the sociologist of religion is confronted with the necessity of accounting for apparently identical or similar patterns in religious behavior, ideas, and forms of organizations on different cultural levels, he is interested in a constructive solution of the apparent dilemma.

A paper presented at an inter-faith Consultation on Religion, State and Communalism» held at Madras from Sept. 21 - 24 under the auspices of the CCA and several religious and secular organizations in India, at a session chaired by Swami Agnivesh.

All IRC section 501 (c)(3) organizations, including churches and religious organizations, must abide by certain rules: ■ their net earnings may not inure to any private shareholder or individual, ■ they must not provide a substantial benefit to private interests, ■ they must not devote a substantial part of their activities to attempting to influence legislation, ■ they must not participate in, or intervene in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office, and ■ the organization's purposes and activities may