Sentences with phrase «protections for religious organizations»

Representatives of the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox rabbis and other conservative religious leaders fought the measure, and their GOP allies pressed hard for stronger legal protections for religious organizations.

Now that the final text is public, I am proud that I have secured some strong protections for religious institutions and basic protections for religious organizations.

Sen. Andrew Lanza, who has sought greater religious protections for religious organizations, was spotted coming out of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office earlier today and would not comment on the meeting.

The push for a gay marriage equality bill in Albany has moved behind closed doors as Gov. Andrew Cuomo attempts to persuade state Senate Republicans to sign off on the seminal legislation by writing in protections for religious organizations.

Contains religious protections for religious organizations.

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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.

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!»

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.

According to the Pew Forum for Religion and Public Life, individuals and faith - based organizations have clear religious liberty protections.

While there is an exemption for religious organizations, the regulations are so narrowly drawn that the conscience protections apply only to those institutions that primarily employ and serve members of their own faith and seek to inculcate religious teaching.

Meanwhile, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities emphasized Kennedy's nod to the First Amendment, stating the «full protections for religious individuals and organizations to exercise their beliefs privately and publicly are not diminished by expanded marriage rights.»

Carl H. Esbeck, an emeritus law professor at the University of Missouri who gathered the National Association of Evangelicals, the Assemblies of God, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, and other groups for an amici brief, believes that «specific religious - liberty protections» will be needed for churches, religious believers, and religious organizations.

Religious liberty is about more than just the protection for «religious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faithReligious liberty is about more than just the protection for «religious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faithreligious organizations and persons... as they seek to teach the principles that are so fulfilling and so central to their lives and faiths.»

April 2011 — For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law, that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates, without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiriFor the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law, that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates, without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hirifor religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates, without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.

Instead, the order entitled «Promoting Free Speech and Religious Liberty» professes to extend political speech protections for pastors and religious organizations, aiming to let them talk about politics withoutReligious Liberty» professes to extend political speech protections for pastors and religious organizations, aiming to let them talk about politics withoutreligious organizations, aiming to let them talk about politics without penalty.

All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.

The Catholic Conference opposes the chapter amendment option, calling the possibility of its passage in this case «disturbing news» that «gives great cause for alarm among those who seek genuine protections for the deeply held religious beliefs and mission of individuals and organizations in this state.»

TThe group behind the advert is SOS Mata Atlantica, a 23 year old Brazilian non-profit private organization, with no political or religious affiliations, which works for the protection of the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlantica), one of the richest sets of ecosystems in terms of biodiversity, and also considered one of the most threatened with extinction on the planet.