Sentences with phrase «with issues of religious freedom»

Not exact matches

The Military for Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group that has waged repeated battle with the armed services, took issue with the last clause of the sentence, saying that no cadets should be forced to make a promise to God.

Second, evangelical Protestants will benefit immensely from listening to Roman Catholic thinkers engaging with the pressing public square issues of abortion, sexuality, and religious freedom.

We wish to express our deep concern that the commission has issued a report, «Peaceful Coexistence: Reconciling Non-Discrimination Principles with Civil Liberties,» that stigmatizes tens of millions of religious Americans, their communities and their faith - based institutions, and threatens the religious freedom of all our citizens.

I usually begin by confessing that marking and honoring the date of my baptism hadn't really occurred to me until a quarter - century or so ago, when I began working with evangelical Protestants on pro-life and religious freedom issues and noted that some of them had an interesting way of introducing themselves at a meeting.

George Weigel calls for the Church to «discipline itself» into a narrow public witness addressing religious freedom and life issues only, what he sees as «the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

George Weigel urges the Church to focus its «primary attention on two key issues: the life issues and religious freedom [because] these are the points of maximum confrontation with the dictatorship of relativism.»

As Arizona's controversial SB 1062 lands on the desk of Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, the exclamation mark this outgoing politician will leave with her pen underscores whether she believes the bill is a distraction from core issues or a necessary step to protect religious freedom.

There is very little about the free - exercise clause in Hamburger's book, and the seeming equation of the disestablishment / separation issue with «American religious freedom» more generally seems to leave out one half of a complex and at - least - two - sided constitutional reality.

Whether one deems this cluster of questions the third part of an expanded just war tradition or an extension of «right intention,» one of the classic deontological ad bellum criteria, this is obviously an area in which considerable criticism of the Iraq War has been focused» whether the issue at hand involves the scandals at Abu Ghraib prison, interrogation methods, de-Baathification policies, counterinsurgency strategies and tactics, or the provisions of the new Iraqi constitution with respect to religious freedom and the role of Islamic law in post-Saddam Iraq.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the pope's vicar for Rome, it is said, is one of those who hold this view: what is needed, he is thought to believe, is (in the words of John Allen Jr of the American National Catholic Reporter) «good relations with Islam, but also a more robust capacity to challenge and critique Islamic leaders, especially on issues of «reciprocity» — the idea that if Muslim immigrants benefit from religious freedom in the West, Christians should get the same treatment in Islamic states.»

This state of affairs not only fails to engage with the core issue at the heart of the culture of death, it also tacitly encourages agnosticism about life after death, human freedom, the ultimate nature of evil and the human need for prayer and religious practice.

The secondary issue that the judge pointed out, did have to do with religious freedom and liberty of conscience.

The central issue in that case was whether a provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which required employers to provide employees with health coverage for contraception, infringed on Hobby Lobby's rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), which prohibits Congress from enacting a law that burdens a person's exercise of their religion.

The issue of religious freedom and how the right to religious expression interacts (and conflicts) with other rights is very complicated.

«Although the sincerity of a person's belief that a religious practice must be observed is relevant to whether the person's right to freedom of religion is at issue, an infringement of this right can not be established without objective proof of an interference with the observance of that practice.

Also, as so many of your comments have stated, I am not a xenophobic, a islamophobic, an ignorant, or in a direct email sent to me: a lesbian because of my photo, nor am I a non-expert on the issue of religious freedom or freedom of expression because I do not disagree with bill 94.

Last week, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Ktunaxa Nation v British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), 2017 SCC 54, which held among other things that the guarantee of religious freedom under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not prevent the state from interfering with the object of one's worship.

In its 2012 decision in L. (S.) v. Commission scolaire des Chenes, [9] the Court again engaged with conceptual issues related to religious freedom, but within the doctrinal framework of section 2 (a).