Sentences with phrase «religious liberty of»

Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible - based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.»

Thus, the stage is already set for the creation of a positive right to die here that could, one dark day, subsume the religious liberty of doctors not to participate — as is occurring now in Canada, and afflicts pro-life doctors in Victoria, Australia regarding access to abortion.

Moral Majority and other groups for what they call «voluntary prayer» in the public schools threatens the religious liberty of the minority that will oppose prayer in general or particular prayers.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act's «contraception mandate» — the requirement that employers provide employees health insurance that covers contraception and abortifacients — impermissibly infringes on the religious liberty of religiously motivated corporations.

What about the religious liberty of religions that want to have safe, legal abortions and religions that want to be able to marry gay couples?

At the same time, the Free Exercise Clause safeguards the religious liberty of individuals, imposing a ban on coercion or discrimination by government.

Unfortunately, contemporary culture presents us — all too insistently — with issues which require a determined biblical and theological response: the continuation of the abortion regime; the intensifying pressure to acknowledge the legitimacy of same - sex «marriage»; the attacks on the religious liberty of Christians, forcing them to support practices offensive to their faith; and, most recently, «assisted suicide» now masquerading under the name «the right to die with dignity.»

Massachusetts and others among the founding thirteen states, while protecting the full religious liberty of citizens under their new constitutions after Independence, maintained an established church and entrusted important moral and educational tasks to church communities with state support, direct or indirect.

Then they will get busy constructing a Bible - based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.»

Schools respect the religious liberty of students in prohibiting religious exercises.

Both Judaism and Christianity, despite historical sins and failures, cherish the religious liberty of even those who say No to their revelations.

You would think it would be a hard sell given the fact that the real estate mogul and reality star has boasted about his extramarital affairs, profited off casinos and strip clubs, said he doesn't need to ask God for forgiveness, called for targeting innocent civilians in war, mocked a reporter with a disability, threatened the religious liberty of minority groups in the U.S., and gained wide support among white nationalists for consistently lying about and demeaning blacks, Mexican immigrants, Muslims, and Syrian refugees.

WHEREAS, this year marks the 1,400 th anniversary of the Charter of Medina, a constitutional contract between the Prophet Muhammad, God's peace and blessings be upon him, and the people of Medina, which guaranteed the religious liberty of all, regardless of faith;

Christian Solidarity Worldwide works for the religious liberty of persecuted Christians, those suffering repression and children in need.

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.

Look at what they're doing through Obamacare with respect to assaulting the religious liberties of this country.

«The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people,» said Rubio, a Florida Republican.

Virtually every law is coercive, and care must be taken not to violate the religious liberties of individual citizens.

Not exact matches

Will flirtations with anti-gay laws under a guise of «religious liberty» (and anti-trans «bathroom bills») hurt the causes of the large metro areas in North Carolina, Georgia and Texas?

The Trump administration has consistently been a champion of religious liberty, particularly insofar as it pertains to evangelical Christian causes.

According to the Religion News Service, it's also charged with informing the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

President Donald Trump presided over a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden for the second year, pledging at the Thursday morning gathering to protect religious liberty all across America.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

«We are proud of our religious heritage and as president I will protect religious liberty.»

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

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:

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

However, even with the presence of Tokes and other Eastern Europeans, attention to concerns for religious liberty was minimal.

Further I demand that my view be taken seriously and to question it is to belittle my beliefs which is an infringement of my religious liberty.

(And since we are entering an era in which conservatives may be forced into considering, at all levels of government, the use of more dramatically intransigent constitutional resistance options to various budget - destroying, Constitution - eroding, and religious - liberty threatening trends of liberal «governance,» a Lincoln - like precision about what we intend to do, and about what enormities we are constitutionally obliged to put up with, is all the more necessary.

This administration is dedicated to abortion and indifferent to the sanctity of life — and that is why it is also indifferent to religious liberty.

I won't take the «christ» out of «christmas» (like that is somehow possible) if you will vote to ensure the religious liberties for everyone are not infringed.

In that respect, Matt struck a modest blow on behalf of religious liberty and of reasonable public discourse.

Perhaps the best part of Secretary Clinton's speech was when she took on arguments against religious liberty made by authoritarians in places like Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and China.

If the courts are to be taken seriously on questions of religious liberty, they can not whitewash theological prejudice and the resulting discrimination.

The Secretary of State should rally corporate America and multinational companies to consider religious liberty along with other human rights concerns when companies decide where to invest.

Over at Mirror of Justice, though, Thomas Berg sounds a bit more worried: «a possible lesson here for religious - liberty advocates (applicable in other contexts too) is to beware of pushing the envelope too much.»

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

There are a number of organisations that specialise in promoting human rights and religious liberty, three of whom contribute to this column inChristianity:

What is the libertarian understanding of religious liberty at the present time?

The bishops are distancing themselves from Catholic groups that have expressed satisfaction with the «accommodation» offered to them by the president: Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association, for instance, told reporters she was «pleased and grateful that the religious liberty and conscience protection needs of so many ministries that serve our country were appreciated enough that an early resolution of this issue was accomplished.»

The boundaries of religious liberty are shrinking or being challenged on many fronts.

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

Do we need to be a Christian society to sustain religious liberty, as R. R. Reno argues in his splendid Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society?

Wesley J. Smith on the Obama administration's attempt to strip entrepreneurs of religious liberty:

On a serious note, it pains me greatly to see our high - ranking government officials pandering to and dancing with these religious perverts and other enemies of liberty.

At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restorareligious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom RestoraReligious Freedom Restoration Act:

But the argument over the motive for Cochran's firing and its effect on civil and religious liberties obscures a deeper disagreement over Christian conceptions of sin and the consequences of those ideas in a public work environment.

We need a definition of constitutional religious liberty that preserves the protection of separation without stifling religious choice.

In an important sense it is a greater violation of religious liberty to ban a ritual that is at the theological heart of a faith than to ban a peripheral celebration.