Sentences with phrase «passing laws»

Our chapter played a key role in passing laws allowing school nurses to keep rescue medications on - hand for children with asthma.

The first amendment prohibits congress from passing any laws that establish an official national religion (e.g. Islam in Saudi Arabia, or the Church of England in colonial times), or from passing laws that prohibit you from getting together with those of like mind and faith.

«Bible Clown © «rarely, if ever, does one see attacks toward budda, the hira krishna, allah, or gosh - forbid mohammed... «Yeah, but we don't have Buddhists passing laws to make us all pretend to adore Buddha.

They do, however, try to stop religious folks from passing laws that would limit the freedoms of the US just because they think god doesn't like something.

Yeah, but we don't have Buddhists passing laws to make us all pretend to adore Buddha.

Of course, passing laws will not solve the conflicts.

Don't know where you got that from... the founders (men and women please) did not block religion but blocked the government from passing laws to restrict religion.

Would Jesus support the government passing laws against his Church?

It seems to me that if the Republican Party was serious about appointing judges to overturn Roe v. Wade and passing laws that would make abortion illegal, they would provide voters with some specifics about how this would work out practically.

As a pastor, I know that simply passing laws isn't going to end all violence.

Then they try to manipulate our Gov. into passing laws designed to increase their groups power... that's why no live and let live.

I see no sense in passing laws if nobody pays them any mind.»

We have states passing laws that ban Gay marriage seems like each year.

It involves passing laws and spending sometimes scarce resources to promote and protect a view of what it means to live an honorable and dignified life.

There is little doubt that the WTO will in time be encouraged to give corporations analogous rights to punish nations for passing laws that are unfavorable to them.

They trash us at every turn, even going so far as to use hate speech and blatant lies to scare people into bashing or even murdering us, passing laws that make our existence illegal, etc., yet when we speak up against this treatment and push back, those same Christians accuse us of intolerance and bullying.

Numerous states are passing laws legalizing same - sex marriage.

People refusing medical treatment because they think they can pray disease away, The demoralizing way religion makes you feel about yourself (I am a wretch, a sinner, a bad person by nature), the religious wars that have been fought for millenia, the self righteous passing laws based on THEIR beliefs (change to the pledge of allegience which now excludes anyone who does not believe in a fairy godfather, the change to the national motto that turned it into the lie «in god we trust», the bigotry that «my religion is the right one and you are wrong so I'll pray for you» kind of crap... don't you realize that it is insulting to me when someone says they will pray for me... its the same as saying I'm going to do something for you but there won't be any effect, so it is just a waste of time.

But, today's modern evangelical fundamentalists, going back to the days of Abraham Vereide founding of the religio - business - political cabal The Family / The Fellowship / C Street / National Prayer Breakfast, chooses to ignore Jesus» comments about his ministry and are bound and determined to have our government controlled by theocratic politicians who are passing laws to further their goal of turning this country into an theocracy.

You must not be paying attention to not only how people will be voting, but / and even more importantly the people (especially the hyper - religious) that are running for and getting voted into office are with zealotry... attempting, and in some cases passing laws that are based on their «religious beliefs.»

Passing laws saying that you can't discriminate anymore would tell anyone that their discriminatory practices will not last very long.

If you don't believe me, then you have never tried to live or work in a Mormon - dominated area — they have no compunction whatsoever against lying or by - passing laws to get ahead at the expense of what they refer to as «gentiles» and shamelessly promote their own members (they literally keep a book of apostates and people like me who are unhireable, etc. once listed there).

In the 1890s, Congress addressed this impasse by passing laws permitting the states to ban imported liquor and making it a federal offense to transport lottery tickets across state lines.

Right, if he's happy and his life has improved, and he's not out passing laws to try to make me worship his book or a fish or spaghetti or something, who cares?

What people don't realize is that you can't think «so what, I'm not gay» because eventually these people will decide you're doing something they don't like and they'll start passing laws that actually effect you.

Stop passing laws based entirely on your fairy tales without rational justification and we can get along.

Same arguments we heard when states started passing laws that decriminalized interracial marriage, when the federal government rejected «separate but equal», and when people realized the President did not always tell the truth.

But even if we succeeded in passing these laws and implementing them, we'd have to go further than that.

Let's set aside cases of unscrupulous legislators passing laws simply to benefit themselves or their friends.

The bill, passed on March 23, prevents local governments from passing any laws to protect LGBT citizens from discrimination, precluding a Charlotte ordinance that would have allowed people to use public bathrooms based on the gender they identify with rather than the one on their birth certificate.

When Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn called Orban a «dictator» for passing laws that could obstruct organizations helping asylum seekers from operating in Hungary, Szijjarto hit back by calling his counterpart an «idiot» who wanted to «flood Hungary with migrants.»

Even cities in red states, where until recently marijuana legalization appeared to have very little support, are passing laws to make sure fewer people are prosecuted for weed - related violations.

«I don't feel an urgent need to pass that law until you show me a reason Mr. Mueller is in jeopardy,» Graham said.

The bill, which is backed by Bird, would allow scooters to be ridden on sidewalks unless local municipalities explicitly pass a law preventing it and only require riders under 18 to wear helmets.

Some argue that the country at large has a tendency to pass laws that produce no substantial effect.

Making matters even more confusing is the fact that 26 states have passed laws defining business opportunities and regulating their sales.

In fact, the strategy was so successful that Nevada passed a law banning such machines in 1985.

In the past year, for instance, Berkeley, California, passed a law taxing sugary drinks, and San Francisco now requires warning labels on bottles.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters)- Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.

Los Angeles passed a law in June to also raise its minimum wage to $ 15 from the current $ 9.

Sandberg's visit to Germany comes after the country's parliament passed a law in June to introduce fines of up to 50 million euros ($ 59 million) for social media networks if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly.

That same year it passed a law giving digital signatures equal weight to handwritten ones.

WASHINGTON, Feb 27 - Supreme Court justices on Tuesday wrestled with Microsoft Corp's dispute with the U.S. Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas, with some signaling support for the government and others urging Congress to pass a law to resolve the issue.

Back in 2005, Congress passed a law saying TSA gets to keep that unclaimed cash, and spend it on any sort of civil aviation security efforts it deems fit.

Even if these families had the means, suing wouldn't be worth the legal fees because state legislators passed a law barring citizens from winning compensation for damages related to health, quality of life, enjoyment of property, or lost income caused by factory farms.

By March the Nazi Party controlled 44.6 % of the Reichstag and managed to pass the infamous Enabling Act, which allowed the German cabinet to pass laws without the legislature or the president.

He gave the example of California passing a law allowing one to make a right - turn at a red light after stopping first.

Wisconsin and Ohio last year passed laws stripping most public sector unions of collective bargaining rights.

These problems would be solved if Congress were to pass a law that gives all workers access to choose their 401 (k) plan providers, regardless of who their employer is.

The federal government, for public safety reasons, will withhold some federal highway funds from states that set their drinking age younger than 21 but Congress has never tried to pass a law setting the drinking age nationally at 21.