Sentences with phrase «religious right attacking»

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The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

One might characterize New Atheism as a largely polemical movement that attacks a particular type of Christianity — the religious and political practices of the «far right» — and conflates the part with the whole of Christendom.

Others: Having been sexually abused by a man in our church myself at the age of 12, and having had to endure the consequences for the last 42 years, and having been the target of several righteous / religious attacks over the last few years, the abused have a right to speak and be heard even if it makes you uncomfortable.

Attacking «the religious right» in a column titled «Merchants of Hate,» Anthony Lewis of the New York Times compared Republicans to Joe McCarthy and accused them of worshipping «a God of intolerance.»

In the current culture wars, religious liberals tend to ally themselves with the educational establishment against those on the Religious Right who are attacking the publicreligious liberals tend to ally themselves with the educational establishment against those on the Religious Right who are attacking the publicReligious Right who are attacking the public schools.

The lawsuit described the contraception mandate as «an unprecedented despoiling of religious rights» that both «attacks and desecrates a foremost tenet of the Catholic Church.»

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.»

In recent weeks the GOP frontrunner has signaled he would attack the president over the charge his administration has rolled back the rights of religious individuals and institutions.

Jeff, the religious right is attacking education funding.

Just what has South Africa's religious guardians of political orthodoxy all worked up is revealed in The Road to Damascus» charge that «right - wing Christians» are guilty of «vicious attacks against liberation theology.»

One of the many attacks on our country from the Religious Right is the claim that our country is a Christian Nation... not just that the majority of people are Christians, but that the country itself was founded by Christians, for Christians.

Evangelicals, though not the originators of these measures, have been suspected as being sympathetic, and as a result have come under relentless attack in the mainstream media under the «religious right» rubric.

A substantial sector of religious America, for example, sees the firefight in Waco as an attack on radical religion and places the cutting edge of religious freedom in the defense of cults» free exercise rights.

They are taking care of the Religious Right by attacking women's rights.

While the Religious Right sought in various ways to combat these legacies, creationists specifically attacked the root of the problem, naturalism itself.

@GOPer My hope, though I will never see it, that all crazy religious practices such as the taliban beheading youngstesr because they chose to party, the muslim brotherhood attacking koptik christians, the vicar of christ condemning condoms and the resulting spread of aids, the right o a woman to control her own body, etc. the horror done in the name of religion still goes on.

Scotland has repeatedly come under attack from international bodies, including the UN, for not giving older children the right to remove themselves from religious observation.

Bangladesh has been under intense pressure after two leading gay rights activists were hacked to death, the latest in a series of chilling attacks on intellectuals, writers and religious minorities for which only a handful of people have been convicted.

Mr. Cuomo picked up on that theme — attacking his opponent, GOP Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, for saying he was opposed to a woman's right to an abortion because of his religious beliefs.

Speaking shortly after praying at the Oke Baale Praying Ground, Osogbo, the state capital, Aregbesola said Nigerians should allow the symbolic killing of rams to mark the end of all vices, including corruption, human rights violations, religious intolerance and attacks on government facilities.

Charlotte is also a board member for Kansas Citizens for Science, an organization conceived in 1999 «to combat the radical religious right's attack on quality science standards for Kansas.»

They always discussed the attacks matter - of - factly and were motivated by deep religious feelings and the conviction that what they were doing was right.

Interestingly, if I'm not mistaken, the Pope is now on board the climate change movement, while this «charlatan» Ian Plimer is loathed by both the religious right for his attacks on creationism, and by the lunatic left for his dismissal of climate science.