Sentences with phrase «religious liberty case»

The state of New York recognized, in the landmark religious liberty case People v. Phillips (1813), that compelling a priest to testify about matters heard during confession would be a fundamental violation of Catholics» religious liberty:

Thus the particular question that has been at the heart of a lot of our religious liberty cases in the past few years — the question of whether institutions in the corporate form are entitled to religious liberty — is not a new question for our political tradition, and the answer that tradition has often offered it is not always friendly to the cause of contemporary traditionalists.

Earlier this year, I accepted an invitation to respond in a public forum to Kyle Duncan, a Becket Fund lawyer involved in the religious liberty cases currently addressing the provisions of the ACA.

Not exact matches

Amid the flurry of essays on religious liberty occasioned by the Supreme Court's hearing arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, these two sentences from Rick Warren's otherwise excellent op - ed in the Washington Post stood out to me:

If the Supreme Court focuses too narrowly on drugs in this case and misses the larger issue of religious ritual, it could create a devastating precedent for religious liberty.

For one thing, to articulate that case above all in the parlance of religious liberty is to approach our society defensively.

If understanding our case as above all a matter of protecting religious liberty rights means that social conservatives don't think or talk that way anymore, then we are in great trouble.

The legal arena is where the case for religious liberty seems most straightforward and securely rooted.

The emphasis we are compelled now to put upon our first freedom risks distorting the moral message of religious and social conservatives in a number of important ways, and in the process undermining our case for liberty and tolerance.

And those who care about religious liberty should know at least as much about that case, McCullen v. Coakley, as they do about the more narrowly decided case with which the Court ended its term.

RFRA ensures that religious liberty is taken seriously in such cases.

The case represents the latest volley in a culture war of sorts as courts and academics — not to mention employers and employees — try to reconcile the law's fundamental commitment to two principles increasingly emerging at loggerheads: religious liberty and women's health.

These cases all raise the following: Does the law provide religiously - motivated for - profit corporations religious liberty protections?

«I am optimistic that these cases will eventually snake their way back up to the Supreme Court and given a full hearing on the merits of the case, I am confident that the Supreme Court will rule in favor of religious liberty,» Ferguson said.

Religious liberty groups like hers are watching the Hobby Lobby case closely.

While the case was decided 5 — 4, the opinions that accompanied the court's decision also signal that seven of the nine justices agree that businesses can make religious liberty claims in court — an important ruling, said Joshua Hawley, senior counsel for The Becket Fund for Religiousreligious liberty claims in court — an important ruling, said Joshua Hawley, senior counsel for The Becket Fund for ReligiousReligious Liberty.

The Masterpiece Cakeshop case is expected to offer more clarity to both sides of the debate over religious liberty vs. same - sex marriage.

In that case, Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for himself and four other members of the Court, knocked religious liberty off its rightful pedestal as the «first freedom» and relegated it to the position of a dependent afterthought.

Some of the most high - profile religious liberty fights in recent years, as Laycock mentioned, have been issues of accommodation for LGBT individuals, such as cases involving wedding photographers, caterers, and bakers.

Justice Harry Blackmun himself cited the Founders» intentions in his dissent in the 1990 Smith case: «I do not believe the Founders thought their dearly bought freedom from religious persecution a «luxury,» but an essential element of liberty.»

While sympathizing with her position on marriage, I also find Ryan Anderson's argument, that religious liberty is not in itself absolutely decisive in such a case, to be compelling.

There were 220 specific violations of religious liberties in 2014, but 2300 last year, many of which «involved entire churches or, in the cases of arrests, dozens of victims.»

But on the constitutional issue of balancing the allegedly competing considerations of religious liberty and equality rights, the Court gets it quite right when it concludes that «[t] his case demonstrates that a well - intentioned majority acting in the name of tolerance and liberalism, can, if unchecked, impose its views on the minority in a manner that is in itself intolerant and illiberal.»