Sentences with phrase «with religious protections»

By contrast, after the New Jersey Supreme Court denied Gov. Chris Christie's appeal of a judge's overturning of the state's ban on same - sex marriage, an attempt by state lawmakers to later write a bill with religious protections collapsed under pressure from gay - rights groups.

Not exact matches

And they have also tended to allow religious excuses to free people from certain legal claims, such as might arise in jurisdictions with broad protections against discrimination, including minorities such as LGBT people.

According to the Religion News Service, it's also charged with informing the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

The bishops are distancing themselves from Catholic groups that have expressed satisfaction with the «accommodation» offered to them by the president: Sister Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association, for instance, told reporters she was «pleased and grateful that the religious liberty and conscience protection needs of so many ministries that serve our country were appreciated enough that an early resolution of this issue was accomplished.»

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

We should be uncomfortable with governmental bans on minor religious festivals, or with judges deciding which festivals are important enough to deserve full constitutional protection and which are not.

He does not say so, but Mr. Harris seems to believe that the Court, left to itself, might come up with a stronger protection of religious freedom.

Reuters: Preacher alarms many Egyptians with calls for Islamist vice police Many Egyptian viewers were horrified when preacher Hisham el - Ashry recently popped up on primetime television to say women must cover up for their own protection and advocated the introduction of religious police.

Living in a pluralistic society that also grants freedom and civil rights protection to those with whom one disagrees is not the same as religious persecution.

Yet the draft describes wide - ranging protections, saying, «Persons and organizations do not forfeit their religious freedom when providing social services, education, or healthcare; earning a living, seeking a job, or employing others; receiving government grants or contracts; or otherwise participating in the marketplace, the public square, or interfacing with federal, state, or local governments.»

He says it took time to make sure all the criteria were met and that the permit was in accordance with the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which allows bald eagles to be used by Native Americans in religious ceremonies.

When any religion, in this case islam, espouses ideas that are in direct conflict with the Constitution and openly work to impose an alien political / religious system called sharia on the United States, at some point the right to claim constitutional protection is lost.

Such groups have claimed that federal hate crimes laws will silence preachers, ignoring those laws» robust protections for free speech and religious expression, as well as the experience in the many states with such protections already in place.

Azariah who later became Bishop of Dornakal argued that the church in accepting the position of a communal political minority with special protection would become a static community and it would negate its self - understanding as standing for mission and service to the whole national community, that in any case the Indian church is not a single social or cultural community since it consists of people of diverse background, each of whom would have its own political struggle to wage in cooperation with the people of similar background in other religions; and therefore theologically and politically Christians should ask only for religious freedom for its mission and service to all people, not as a minority right, but as a human right (ref.

In the same documents, the museum argues that even if constitutional protections apply, «there is no legal authority for the proposition that a museum is prohibited from displaying an item with historical, cultural or artistic significance merely because that item also has religious significance.»

Examples are 9/11 hijackings, The holding back of stem cell research that could save countless human lives, Aids being spread due to religious opposition to the use of condoms, Christians legally fighting this year to teach over 1 million young girls in America that they must always be obedient to men, the eroding of child protection laws in America by Christians, for so called faith based healing alternatives that place children's health and safety at risk, burning of witches, the crusades, The Nazi belief that the Aryans were god's chosen to rule the world, etc... But who cares about evidence in the real world when we have our imaginations and delusions about gods with no evidence of them existing.

Some religious groups may choose to in - crease their collaboration with government and even compete for public funds; others may determine they are uncomfortable with government funding despite the new protections afforded by Charitable Choice.

«Removing even a nod toward «religious liberty» from the platform puts Democrats at fundamental odds with the many religious organizations whose mission is nonviolence and protection of the most vulnerable,» wrote executive director Kristen Day and Fordham University professor Charles Camosy.

Take, for instance, last summer the State of Illinois revoked Catholic Charity's adoption and foster care licensebecause Catholic Charities didn't comply with the «Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act,» which says gay couples must be treated the same way as heterosexual couples.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

The party that institutionally favors redefining marriage, diminishing legal protections for the unborn, and rolling back religious liberty protections for those who disagree with those initiatives was lacerated on Tuesday night.

Equal protection under the law means * equal * not asterisk, special pleading if you're a closely held company with specific religious views.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

The memo makes clear that religious protections are not just guaranteed to a narrow slice of groups, like churches, nonprofits, and organizations with solely religious work.

With these interim final rules, Trump follows through on his promise to secure religious liberty protections for employers forced to cover medicine they oppose on religious grounds.

An earlier draft of a religious liberty order, leaked in January, focused on balancing religious convictions with LGBT protections.

What exactly does that have to do with the debate over whether their religious beliefs have Consti - tutional protection?

Indeed, even the religious liberty guaranteed by the First Amendment combined with the parental rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment may not provide enough protection against a circumcision ban that does not specifically target religious conduct.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Nevertheless, while principles of religious equality and religious freedom must be protected by all those concerned, religious establishment is no longer viable: the protection offered to the Church of England must be uniform with that offered to all religious faiths.

Unlike the other three GOP senators to vote for the same - sex marriage law, Saland was involved in the crafting of the measure itself, negotiating an amendment that carved out religious protections (one could argue that the protections weren't really needed in a realistic aspect, but it gave some protection to the GOP conference in allowing a vote to begin with).

A Wichita - based tea party group is attempting to revive a Kansas bill that would allow religious - based discrimination against gays, with the group saying the bill is as much a protection of LGBT rights as it is a protection of the rights of Christian... Read

Ball famously flirted with voting in favor of the same - sex marriage, attracting significant media attention, before announcing that the religious protections in the final product weren't good enough.

Both Saland and Lanza have met with Cuomo to develop a chapter amendment to the bill for broader religious protections.

I was part of a trio of Senators that negotiated with the Governor and his staff for greater religious protections in this legislation — vastly in excess of the prior defeated version and substantially more than this year's earlier version.

During the Equality Act 2010's passage through Parliament, we worked closely with a range of organisations as well as our supporters in Parliament to have amendments made to the Equality Bill which sought to increase protection against discrimination for humanists and others, and to minimise the exceptions from the law granted to religious organisations.

In a CNN interview, Ball said he did not think the bill went far enough in extending religious protections for «individuals and businesses with religious objections» to marriage equality for same - sex couples.

But Gov. John Lynch, a three - term Democrat, said last week he would sign a same - sex marriage bill only if it provides «the strongest and clearest protections for religious institutions and associations, and for the individuals working with such institutions.»

I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

«We have staff people and members discussing with the governor religious protections.

He wants protections that will allow a religious group to observe its principles without conflicting with a gay marriage law.

He says the capital cities of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait «have been used as a base by wealthy individuals and religious foundations to channel millions of dollars to radical Sunni elements fighting Assad in Syria, either with the tacit approval of the regimes, or taking advantage of weak money - laundering protections within those states.»

Janeth Quintanilla works with Mexican artisans to present this bohemian wristband bracelet, decorated with nickel charms that bring protection, including religious symbols peace signs, heart shapes,

Greenfield's bill was intended to add protection for religious schools that feel the threat of terrorism or hate crimes, by staffing them with a school security officers with a direct dispatch to the NYPD.

Though the program includes a protection for religious liberty, «Nothing herein shall require any school or institution to adopt any rule, regulation, or policy that conflicts with its religious or moral teachings,» the effect of this expanded layer of regulatory control is yet to be determined.

It's been gummed up because of a faith - based protection provision that would allow adoption agencies to receive state funding while turning away prospective parents who don't fit with an organization's religious beliefs.

In compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the museum also repatriates objects linked to religious or funerary practice to federally recognized Native American tribes.

TThe group behind the advert is SOS Mata Atlantica, a 23 year old Brazilian non-profit private organization, with no political or religious affiliations, which works for the protection of the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlantica), one of the richest sets of ecosystems in terms of biodiversity, and also considered one of the most threatened with extinction on the planet.

Second, it's also worth noting that the 2004 SCC reference on same sex marriage provides some helpful guidance on how the Court views the interplay of religous freedom with same - sex marriage, concluding that given the protections afforded to religous institutions under the Charter and provincial human rights laws, that it would be unlikely that religious institutions would be compelled to recognize gay marriage — a point that seems entirely consistent with the 2001 TWU decision.