Sentences with phrase «religious conscience»

Accommodation of religious conscience is left to the wisdom (or the whim) of the majority.

But having one's religious conscience protected from intrusion by one's fellow citizens is a much less compelling need than having it protected from the government.

This pattern is consistent with the widespread assumption that, because the individual religious conscience is free, religion itself is entirely private.

«I can not, as a matter of religious conscience, follow that instruction because I may not trim my beard even temporarily to complete the academy,» he wrote.

But Keith Porteous Wood, of the National Secular Society (NSS) warned that a victory for the four would be «bad news» for employers and gay people, adding: «Any further accommodation of religious conscience in UK equality law would create a damaging hierarchy of rights, with religion trumping all.»

Under Trump, federal policy keeps shifting away from abortion rights in favor of religious conscience protections.

If that is true then he got pre-empted by 28 governors of individual states who enacted this mandate at various times in their states, several with no exemptions for religious conscience at all.

«Exemptions for small vendors from providing personal services directly for a wedding when other vendors are available would protect providers» religious conscience without undermining access.

Such is the kind of reasoning that needs to be advanced in the public square: not an argument from sectarian exceptionalism or the unique privileges of a private religious conscience, but arguments from the inalterable structure of things.

August 2011 — The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers, in the areas of abortion and contraception.

How many human beings have become the victims of religious wars, how frequent the oppression of other religious consciences, how numerous are the martyrdoms suffered in courageous confession of individual faith!

Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the NSS, said: «Any further accommodation of religious conscience in UK equality law would create a damaging hierarchy of rights, with religion at the top.

And if only «religious groups» are given protection, we are a long way from full, robust protection for religious conscience, which belongs to everyone who can be a moral agent: individuals, groups, churches, ministries, nonprofit - sector corporations, and for - profit corporations too (as in the case of Hobby Lobby in the HHS mandate controversy).

My own conclusion... is that the Free Exercise Clause does not require a State to conform a neutral secular program to the dictates of religious conscience of any group... [A] state could constitutionally create exceptions to its program to accommodate religious scruples.

They too have religious consciences.

The question is whether someone should be required to provide something that violates their religious conscience.

Pursued with the right kind of arguments and with sufficient vigor, an escape from the «exemptions ghetto» can bring us out into an open field of religious freedom in full — and of moral freedom in full for all, thanks to the indispensable leadership role of religious conscience, and the recognition of the duty of men and women to obey God before any authority of the state.

So long as those companies are sincerely motivated by the religious conscience of their management, they should have identical religious liberty protections.

And if providing health insurance coverage that includes contraception violates the institution's religious conscience, then it should not be required to do so.

A s the cases challenging the Health and Human Services mandate make their way through the courts, the main claim is that those who object to the mandate on the basis of religious conscience should be exempted from the law's requirement of providing objectionable drugs and services.

And the cost of participating in the for - profit world is that you must comply with the rules of the marketplace, including providing insurance plans even when they contravene your religious conscience.

While the Kansas bill explicitly allows businesses and individuals to deny services to gays and lesbians, Arizona's law is worded more broadly to apply to anything that could violate a person's religious conscience.

Speaking in Loveland, Colorado, on Tuesday, Romney said the rule was «in violation of the religious conscience of (Catholic) organizations.»

So, if an employee of these organizations feel that its is immoral or against their religious conscience to use contraceptives they can simply choose not to ask for prescription or choose not to be sterilized.

Another lawyer representing Daniel and Amy McArthur, who own Ashers, has argued that the state is penalising the Belfast baking firm, with the courts effectively forcing them to make a cake whose message they disagree with as a matter of religious conscience.

As the cases challenging the Health and Human Services mandate make their way through the courts, the main claim is that those who object to the mandate on the basis of religious conscience should be exempted from the law's requirement of providing objectionable drugs and services.

Religious conscience.

So, you can become exempt from the individual mandate by impoverishing yourself, getting yourself thrown in prison, renouncing your citizenship, etc., but you were particularly interested in the religious conscience exemption.

Lord Parekh responded to the Bishop's proposition by offering two «critical footnotes» to balance the debate: «First, when we talk about religion and conscience, there is a danger — I do not think that the Bishop made this mistake — of equating conscience with religion as if a non-religious conscience does not have the same rights as a religious conscience.

In particular, if an individual claims that adhering to a workplace policy would violate their religious consciences, the individual simply has to show that the religious belief is sincere.