Sentences with phrase «religious right moves»

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in politics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down.

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in politics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down; and, most importantly

(iii) the weakness of human nature (and a basic lesson in civics) as the religious right moves to shut the experiments down.

Not exact matches

It's a slow process but we are moving in the right direction, away from religious control.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

Senate Democrats are moving forward with legislation to fix the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling which interpreted the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA) as guaranteeing closely - held private corporations the right to deny birth control coverage to women.

Those whom I have communicated with, were they elected to the high offices of the land, would first move to rob their fellow citizens of their right to religious freedom leaving only those who are atheist or agnostic free to worship their god..

Progressive religious folks of all stripes tend to share a post-triumphalism (a sense that it's time to move beyond the old triumphalist paradigm in which one religion is The Right Path to God and all the other paths are wrong), as well as an inclination toward reading our sacred texts through interpretive lenses which take into account changing social mores and changing understandings of justice.

«Rather than trying to replicate the exact jots and tittles of what Utah did, we're looking at the idea that if you try to address both concerns on the front end, you can actually get a more comprehensive set of religious liberties than if LGBT rights moves forward on its own and you try to come in later in the game and attach religious liberties,» said LoMaglio.

Rights campaigners fear the move will effectively legalize discrimination, while some conservative religious leaders had called for stronger measures to be taken.

«While many Southern Baptists share my deep commitment to religious freedom and the right of Muslims to have places of worship, they also feel that a Southern Baptist denominational leader filing suit to allow individual mosques to be built is «a bridge too far,»» Land wrote in a letter to the ADL explaining the move.

For the time being, states with RFRAs are making the right move to protect religious liberty.

The Declaration on Religious Freedom provided the basis to move beyond the older Catholic approach of thesis / hypothesis, built as it was on the thesis that «error has no rights,» including the theological errors of Protestantism.

Dannin also introduces what he admits is a «taboo» subject: that a portion of «African - American society has always been unchurched,» that African - American lodges have traditionally been centers of unchurched religious practices and beliefs,» and that since the end of the civil rights era unchurched African - Americans «have been moving more rapidly toward Islam.»

Some religious leaders took up the critical stance they desired by moving moderately to the right and others by moving somewhat to the left.

The move has sparked outrage from many Christians who feel the subpoenas violate religious freedom and free speech rights.

The guidance insisted such a move would be legal if women were not discriminated against, but the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said sex segregation was only permissible in religious premises.

WAKEFIELD — Preachers and politicians summoned Martin Luther King Jr.'s soaring religious language and his moving political rhetoric at a packed church service in Wakefield Monday morning, 83 years after the civil rights leader was born.

You can point the finger at all sorts of participants in this battle, but I believe (and we have been examining and discussing at length on this site for more than 8 years now) the principal drivers of the polarization are coming more from: (1) the corporate energy interests who are protecting their profits against regulation and other policies that would move the system away from fossil fuels, and using their clout in the political process to tie things up; (2) right - wing anti-government and anti-regulatory ideologues whose political views appear threatened by scientific conclusions that point toward a need for stronger policy action; (3) people whose religious or cultural identities appear threatened by modern science; and so forth.