Sentences with phrase «religious liberty organizations»

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The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

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

I have proposed one: the government must treat religious people and institutions the same way it treats comparable nonreligious people and institutions, unless special accommodation is needed to protect religious liberty from a facially neutral law that conflicts with religious obligations or forms of organization.

But we will take every dollar from that sale and donate it to an organization fighting to protect and advance religious liberty — organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom, Manhattan Declaration, or the Ethics and Religious Liberty Coreligious liberty — organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom, Manhattan Declaration, or the Ethics and Religious Liberty CoReligious Liberty Commission.

In 1995, roughly three dozen groups representing numerous faiths as well as a secular humanist organization designed a joint statement on religious liberties, showing support for what could be done legally in the schools, and disputing the claim that schools were «religion - free zones.»

Religious liberty and voluntarism thus led to an unusual «separation» of church and state, a situation in which the organizations are perhaps separated but the symbols are not.

«Removing even a nod toward «religious liberty» from the platform puts Democrats at fundamental odds with the many religious organizations whose mission is nonviolence and protection of the most vulnerable,» wrote executive director Kristen Day and Fordham University professor Charles Camosy.

The separation of Church and state and the legal recognition of the principle of religious liberty in both nations have led not only to pluralism through the protection of established religious groups and the encouragement of spontaneity and inventiveness; but have also fostered voluntarism in church organization and made the clergy largely dependent on lay support.

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.»

CNN: After contraception controversy, Catholic Church announces religious freedom campaign The Roman Catholic Church announced a major campaign Thursday aimed at bringing attention to what it said were growing threats to religious liberty in the United States, including the pending White House rule requiring health insurance companies to provide free contraceptive coverage to employees of Catholic organizations.

«Although the memo does not overturn the Obama executive order prohibiting sexual - orientation discrimination by government contractors, it signals a hospitable attitude toward accommodating religious - liberty objections by religious organizations in the context of contracts or grants,» he said.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Ghana believes in the principles that democratic societies provide individuals with the best conditions for political liberty, personal freedom, equality of opportunity and economic development under the rule of law; and therefore being committed to advancing the social and political values on which democratic societies are founded, including the basic personal freedoms and human rights, as defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; in particular, the right of free speech, organization, assembly and non-violent dissent; the right to free elections and the freedom to organize effective parliamentary opposition to government; the right to a free and independent media; the right to religious belief; equality before the law; and individual opportunity and prosperity.

She has also done research for the anti-voucher group Texas Coalition for Public Schools and the Texas Freedom Network, an organization fighting for religious freedom, civil liberties and stronger public schools.

As a nonpartisan organization with conservative core values, we find it troubling that a fundamental American principle such as religious liberty became a partisan issue in the Florida Senate.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

They are worried that their religious liberties will be jeopardized and that members of their religious organizations will not be properly protected under our laws.

charitable, religious, civic, community governmental and educational organizations to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties or public rights so long as a substantial majority of such services benefit persons of limited means or organizations that serve persons of limited means