Sentences with phrase «respect to religion»

Yet neither can the state be neutral with respect to religion.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist explained in the majority opinion that voucher programs are «neutral in respect to religion because they provide assistance directly to a broad class of citizens, who, in turn, direct government aid to religious schools wholly as a result of their own genuine and independent private choice.»

It's hard to «grow up and expand my mind» with respect to religion when many priests are giving up child molesting for lent.

as an atheist and democrat, I always saw Obama as basically a non-believer, who uses religion or pays respect to religion when it is politically appropriate or expedient.

Fourth, the law was neutral with respect to religion because parents could opt to use the vouchers at religious or secular schools.

The purpose of this brief summary of the modern situation in respect to religion and to reason as science is primarily to draw attention to the tension which exists in their relationship to one another.

The charter and associated proposals indicate a concerted effort to ensure the Quebec government and its employees remain neutral with respect to religion in the performance of their duties and obligations.

If burying Osama binLaden at sea with a brief ceremony that pays respects to his religion is the most peaceful solution for all of society, than I am all for him being buried at sea.

How can anybody truly be gnostic with respect to religion?

With respect to religion and public life, Leon Wieseltier and his like are proposing to Eastern Europe the Swedish model with respect to religion and public life.

And it must be admitted that there are also friends of religious freedom who favor the idea that government should adopt a «neutrality rule» with respect to religion.

You need to understand there is more than one definition assigned to athiesm in respects to religion.

Again with all respect to all religions — The issue of DEAD LANGUAGE verses ACTIVE AND LIVING ONE, the issue of A SINGLE SOURCE LANGUAGE rather than HUNDREDS OF TRANSLATIONS, is a very important one.

The ACLU went after the state's new universal Educational Savings Account program on religious grounds, but a judge ruled that it was «neutral with respect to religion» because parents — not state actors — decide where the money is spent.

v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872, 877 (1990)(upholding a law criminalizing possession of peyote because it was neutral with respect to religion and emphasizing that «government may not... impose special disabilities on the basis of religious view or religious status»).

Konaté sees this as akin to the ambiguous position heads of governments take with respect to religion.

Calling those people «Islamophobes» because they have a general philosphy with respect to religion and the «public sphere» that they manifested before niqabs and prayer rooms and halal foods were even an issue is stupid IMHO.