Sentences with phrase «out of religious conviction»

By proposing a measure that capitalizes on the religious autonomy of parents, allowing them to select the best way to raise their child, the Board of Health aims to ensure that parents selecting this religious ritual have done so out of religious conviction and not medical ignorance.

If you're a missionary in Kenya, please don't vow to go to law school out of religious convictions, unless you're going to a low - ranking religious - affiliated law school.

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On the basis of this thin reed Stevens was willing to impose on protestors acting out of profound religious convictions the same draconian punishments that are ordinarily imposed on gangsters.

I think a lot of agnostic / atheist people would be perfectly content to live their lives without making their personal convictions a crusade if the other side didn't make a crusade out of their religious beliefs.

It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.

We were Catholic, a religious expression that seemed to arise more out of tradition and perhaps superstition than conviction.

We beg you to remember, as we pledge to remember, those who are not free; those who suffer for freedom's cause; those who are poor, out of work, needy, sick, or alone; those who are persecuted for their religious convictions, those still ravaged by war.

Integrity, passion, conviction, vision — indispensable elements of a religious story — all arise out of a context, yet transcend context.

Out of religious and moral conviction we tend to praise people for their high intentions, and to sympathize with their sense of inability to live up to the ideals they hold.

In declaring religion out of bounds, they surely sought not only to protect Romney from the criticism of conservative Evangelicals, but to protect the future Republican nominee, whoever he or she might be, from the religiously based criticism of the left, which has already argued that Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and others are unsuitable because of their supposedly extreme religious convictions.

A teal black ecumenism, necessarily growing out of profound theological conviction, would seek the economic, political, religious, cultural and social uplift of the great masses.

The latter, of course, was the Hobby Lobby 5 - 4 squeaker, allowing HL, a «family - owned» corporation, to opt out of offering contraceptives to its employees through the Affordable Care Act, due to the religious convictions of its owners, who oppose abortion.

Eugene Volokh sorts out some of the issues and notes that the Supreme Court, including some of the most liberal members, have taken the view that elected officials are free to voice religious convictions in public speeches without fear of violating the Establishment Clause.