Sentences with phrase «religiously affiliated organizations»

The rule in question mandated all employers, including religiously affiliated organizations like hospitals and colleges, provide free contraception to employees through health insurance plans.

(CNN)- The Obama administration finalized rules on Friday that allow religiously affiliated organizations to opt out of a federal mandate requiring that they provide employees with insurance coverage for birth control.

Their range of choice will shrink; the overall level of pluralism and diversity in society will decline; the financial pressure of government subsidies will tempt religiously affiliated organizations to abandon their religious witness in order to serve more of the needy.

They suggested three ways in which RFRA might conceivably be interpreted (misinterpreted, really) to create bad consequences: (1) to give a church's opponents legal «standing» (a technical term meaning the right to sue) to challenge the church's tax - exempt status; (2) to allow taxpayers to claim their free exercise rights would be violated if a religiously affiliated organization receives government assistance under a secular program; and, most importantly, (3) to allow pro-abortion plaintiffs to claim a free exercise right to abortion if Roe v. Wade is overruled and states enact anti-abortion laws.

This decision is grounded in sound medical science and health policy and protects access to affordable birth control for millions of women, including women who are employed by a religiously affiliated hospital, university, or other religiously affiliated organization that serves the broader public.

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Trinity Lutheran sued, arguing that this discrimination against religiously - affiliated organizations is unconstitutional.

The proposal outlined in this paper, asking for religiously affiliated people to work together to face the issues of terrorism, violence and injustice, in not meant to diminish the important role that all other human agencies, state sponsored or voluntary organizations, groups and movements, have to play.

The question is whether sectarian organizations — congregations, not just religiously affiliated non-profits — can use government finds to deliver social services that promote faith - infused transformation.

It would be preferable to consider the ecology of the entire community, and the way different organizations — congregations, governments and secular and religiously affiliated nonprofits — each play a different but complementary role.

Obama is only saying to all religiously affiliated companies / organizations «you MUST cover birth control.

From accounts, ramifications and implications of the new law were anticipated and discussed extensively, especially in the area of protecting freedoms for religious and religiously - affiliated organizations.