Sentences with phrase «religious organizations organizations»

It was Christian and other religious organizations organizations that were out there doing all the work.

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On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

With the exception of North Carolina's legislation, the laws and proposed legislation are loosely termed Religious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) bills, and in their current form they give businesses and other organizations the right to withhold services from clientele based on religious obReligious Freedom Reformation Act (RFRA) bills, and in their current form they give businesses and other organizations the right to withhold services from clientele based on religious obreligious objections.

Colleges controlled by religious organizations always have been eligible to seek exemptions from Title IX.

Regardless of how the church managed to win recognition as a tax - exempt religious organization, that prize is worth hard cash.

«Banks and financial organizations — perhaps because that is where the money is — and nonprofits, including religious organizations, probably due to their weak business controls environment, are most often the victims of this type of white collar crime,» said Christopher Marquet, CEO of Marquet International, in a statement.

Amazon lists a number of items it restricts from its website, and there is a category for «offensive products,» which the company describes partially as «products that promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual or religious intolerance or promote organizations with such views.»

This is the most recent salvo by religious organizations against the Affordable Care Act's mandate for comprehensive health care coverage, which includes some forms of birth control.

(«Cash contributions,» which comes in third, is primarily donations to charities and religious organizations.)

More than 100 businesses and religious organizations have sued the federal government to be exempt from the ACA's contraceptive requirements since Obamacare became law in 2010.

«I will make absolutely certain religious orders like the Little Sisters of Poor are not bullied by the federal government because of their religious beliefs,» Trump wrote in October in a letter to the leaders of Roman Catholic organizations.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints is a nonprofit religious organization commonly known as the Mormon Church.

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.

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.

Groups selling filter technologies have often overstated revenue estimates while religious organizations not wanting to legitimize the industry have under - reported their guesses.

Well, it would be just a drop in the bucket, but cutting off their tax - exempt status as a religious organization might mean a few more bucks in the federal coffers.

Anthony Levandowski is the CEO and president of a religious organization called Way of the Future.

This may be somewhat surprising (or not, depending on how you look at it), but religious organizations tend to have the best rate of success after the fifth year.

A 501 (c)(3) is a non-profit with tax - exempt status, covering qualifying charitable and religious organizations.

This is the 10th edition of the report hailed as the «Bible for socially progressive foundations, religious groups, pension funds, and tax - exempt organizations» by the Chicago Tribune.

If you are employed by a not - for - profit organization, any time you spend on religious instruction, worship services, or any form of proselytizing may not be counted toward meeting the full - time employment requirement.

If you work for a religious organization that doesn't pay into the Social Security program, you must pay Social Security taxes if your earnings are more than $ 100 per year.

Before 1984, people who worked for nonprofit, religious, charitable or educational organizations did not pay into Social Security unless they specifically chose to take part in the program.

Churches, church conventions or associations, as well as religious and apostolic organizations, including corporations and any community chest, fund, or foundation, organized and operated exclusively for religious purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

If you donate appreciated stocks that you've held for more than a year to a «public» charity — such as a religious or an educational institution, or an organization that does medical research — you can typically take a tax deduction for the full fair market value of the stocks, up to 50 % of your adjusted gross income for that year.

401 (k) plans are generally offered by for - profit companies, while 403 (b) plans are generally offered by non-profit entities, religious groups, school districts and governmental organizations.

Nonprofit organizations, including hospitals, religious organizations, charitable institutions and social welfare agencies

National Charities: organizations that are independent or are commercially - affiliated and national in reach; not focused on a particular region; do not have a specific religious and / or focus area.

A charitable organization serves broad public purposes in educational, religious, scientific and artistic fields, among others, as well as the relief of poverty and other public benefit activities.

Will Bunch's CNN.com tirade earlier this week against television host Glenn Beck and David Barton - the founder and president of WallBuilders, a national pro-family organization that emphasizes history's «moral, religious and constitutional heritage» - for allegedly creating «pseudo history» reveals more about Mr. Bunch than it does about what Mr. Beck and Mr. Barton are presenting.

Actually, requiring Religious belief is perfectly legal for a religious orgaReligious belief is perfectly legal for a religious orgareligious organization.

Religious organizations are trying to claim a legal right to force scientific organizations to employ people who actively don't believe in science.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

Therefore I will not be surprised if those religious minorities would rally with him disguised as Atheists... It is obvious as well that him being of Jewish family that the Jewish organizations are behind the seen supporting / financing him..

It is completely crazy to think an elite scientific organization should have to employ someone who doesn't believe in science... the even scarier part is I wouldn't be very surprised if the religious side wins this case.

A Hasidic Jew presents problems to any organization since they are bound by a higher set of religious dogma that might not agree with established governmental policies.

Most religious organizations have their own rules that go directly against the teaching of the bible.

It must be incredibly stressful to work in an organization that actively dispels religious myths if that is something you believe in.

This case is about one thing and one thing only: Religious money attacking a scientific organization that actively uncovers information that makes religion less and less relevant.

David Silverman, chairman of the event committee and president of the American Atheists, said the rally is aimed at uniting atheist organizations and letting the religious know that there are nonbelievers among them.

Being a member of a Religious organization does not make you a Christian, in fact, it probably prevents you from being one.

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!»

Unless Vanderbilt holds all clubs and organizations to the same standard (which they're not doing), then it is clear that they are wrongly targeting religious organizations.

They can't fund religious - oriented greek societies in any way, and they can't have policies which support selection for funded student organizations based on religion.

Tax benefits for religious organizations fall into three general categories: tax - free donations, tax - free land and tax - free commercial enterprises.

Another is in gov grants to religious organizations,, that's OUR tax dollar, again not separation.

Given these new rules, the religious organization would have no mechanism for kicking these troublemakers out of their groups.

Religious organizations, like any other human organization, eventually revolve around money and influence, it can not be helped.

Messages of fidelity, monogamy, and delay of first sexual experience can be transmitted in a secular manner» for example, through life - skills programs at schools» and / or these messages can come through religious leaders and organizations.

Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.