Religious education serves a purpose, inculcating religious values and preserving religious traditions.
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When religious nationalists invoke "religious freedom," it is typically code for religious privilege.
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Specifically, the Russell Amendment applies to "any religious corporation, religious association, religious educational institution, or religious society" that receives a federal contract.
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Steve Russell of Oklahoma to exempt "any religious corporation, religious association, religious education institution or religious society" with a federal contract from Obama's directive.
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The question pits religious conservatives against religious liberals, just as it divides the non-religious.
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It allows religious organizations to preserve their religious identity — to hire employees that support their religious mission.
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Parents of students who attend religious schools claim the state's different treatment of religious schools violates their religious freedom.
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While the religious and non-religious both pay into the program, apparently only the non-religious can receive any benefit.
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" On Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose political and religious careers survived public scandals: "His religious space was far from religious.
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In 2017, Uzbekistan found itself a target of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, accused of limiting the rights of all religious groups, attempting to control religious activity and censoring religious materials.
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Religious roots Gratitude is deeply embedded in many religious traditions.
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It affirms religious allegiances and, by extension, it asserts religious differences.
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Religious items: Like hobby craft, there is a separate religious catalog.
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Already, religious "nones" are the largest single religious bloc among Democrats.
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The training sessions focused on topics including protections for religious land use, the religious rights of prisoners, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, protecting places of worship, and the religious liberty rights of employees under federal law.
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Religious freedom Trump signed an executive order on religious liberty that, in theory, allows churches and other religious organizations to become more politically active.
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This time, the objection comes from a handful of religious nonprofits that argue that the government's religious exemption itself infringes on their religious freedom.
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Comer that barring religious organizations like churches from participating in public benefit programs simply because they are religious is inconsistent with constitutional religious protections.
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Zucker says vaccine levels in Jewish schools in New York City look average, although religious schools have more religious exemptions than non-religious schools.
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This is a fundamental issue for many religious and religious nationalist Israelis.
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They are the corollary to special religious exemptions that religious schools enjoy.
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The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief but not religious practice.
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It's been shown to people who are actively religious or recovering religious.
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If religious doctrine contradicts fact, then that religious belief cannot be true.
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One is that it's not about religious freedom — it's about religious exemption.
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Let's call it by its true name: religious privilege, not religious liberty.
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But the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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The Title VII religious exemption already applies to non-military religious entities.
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"Because of his religious authority, equality becomes a religious mandate," Lee said.
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Religious institutions also have a say in art work with religious references.
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In 2016, Jakarta-based Setara Institute, which monitors religious freedom in Indonesia, reported a significant increase in acts of religious intolerance and religious freedom violations.
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But religious institutions employ many people who perform a combination of religious and secular duties — and many of these employees have only minimal religious responsibilities.
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Moreover, the network of hesder yeshivas (which mix religious studies with military service) and religious pre-service military academies is often intended less to create a new national-religious elite than to keep youngsters from leaving religious life.
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Religious tolerance Kennedy wrote that there is room for religious tolerance, pointing specifically to how the Colorado commission treated Phillips by downplaying his religious liberty concerns.
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Whether it be a religious climate change denial, religious fundamentalism, or a quasi-religious racism, once that's in your brain, it's very difficult to get out.
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Religious organizations who engage in child welfare work are certainly entitled to their religious viewpoints, and their religious beliefs are firmly protected under the First Amendment.
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"The Ministry of Religious Affairs disseminates religious materials and monitors mosques, radio religious programs and sermons to project one uniform version of Islam," Mr. Maghraoui said.
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The truth is that religious communities are substantively different than non-religious communities.
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This is not a religious protection, it is a violation of religious beliefs.
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But religious rights groups say the case is about religious freedom, not discrimination.
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Cordelia is religious, but I think ultimately that it is a religious book.
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Religious Jews accept only religious definitions, but they also have their own rivalries.
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Religious organizations argued the requirement is illegal because it violates their religious rights.
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Religious persecution retards economic development, increases social instability and feeds violent religious extremism.
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Violent extremist ideologies may have a religious dimension but they are only superficially linked to religious teachings and their followers often have low levels of religious literacy.
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For religious conservatives, the new protections address long-held concerns that religious people could be forced to comply with laws and regulations that violate their religious beliefs.
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The First Amendment's rights to free speech, religious exercise, and religious expression mean a person cannot be compelled to perform tasks or make products, religious conservatives contend.
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His junta made religious education mandatory, opened new religious schools and continued to populate the state bureaucracy with members of religious fraternities, who were reliable anti-socialists.
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And it is a religious situation going on in Silicon Valley, the tech-religious.
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It's kind of a religious moment for me — spiritual, religious, whatever you call it.
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Her comments came after religious extremists targeted gay activists, atheist bloggers and religious minorities.
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Every religious belief is a minority in some part of America, which is why a majority-rules theory of religious freedom eventually means no religious freedom at all.
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For religious people in America, the optimal environment is a maximum of religious liberty — and minimum of state discrimination along religious lines — alongside voluntary avoidance of state support.
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Religious liberty Kasich said it was time to get over religious liberty laws in the United States that allow businesses to deny service to gay people over religious objections.
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Israeli Jews were asked to identify with one of four religious subgroups, each with varying levels of religious observance: Haredi ("ultra-Orthodox"), Dati ("religious"), Masorti ("traditional"), and Hiloni ("secular").
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Title VII's tried-and-true religious exemption exists precisely so that religious organizations may continue to provide vital support to the government while staying true to their religious identities.
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Religious exemptions Support is building in several states for religious exemptions that would let businesses, government employees or contractors refuse to provide services that conflict with their religious beliefs.
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Last comes religious tolerance: how aggressively do religious institutions object to deviation from sexual norms?
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"Americans are great believers in religious freedom and the right to exercise their religious beliefs."
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"When it comes to religious liberty, religious liberty is something that protects everyone," he said.
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It was the closest to a religious experience that I've seen without it being religious.
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RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Mississippi jumped into the religious freedom debate with both feet yesterday, as Gov.
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While Nadia doesn't need a spiritually religious pillar, religious rituals are deeply important to Saeed.
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Some need religious guidance and are put in contact with an imam and religious scholars.
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Some religious organizations contend Trump's initiatives would impinge on religious liberty rather than foster it.
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But religious experts said mosques typically follow the sermon issued by the state religious authority.
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Religious and human rights advocates immediately attacked the legislation as a breach of religious freedom.
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What senators Cornyn, Cruz and other religious conservatives mean by "religious liberty" is its opposite.
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The Capitol itself is no stranger to religious ceremony or official recognition of religious leaders.
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The Pew Research Center's 2014 Religious Landscape Survey analyzed religious beliefs and habits of Americans.
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And some have parents who are not religious, but others have parents who are religious.
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Congress has passed two pieces of legislation protecting religious freedom with overwhelming bipartisan support: the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
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And he has shown considerable deference to the religious right, naming many religious conservatives to top cabinet posts and pledging to fight for religious freedom protections and restrictions on abortion.
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She was raised religious Like Pratt, Schwarzenegger's religious faith plays a big role in her life.
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Attacks on religious minorities and the murder of minority religious leaders are also becoming the norm.
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Religious organisations, such as the Muslim Lawyers Association, argue for a broad interpretation of religious rights.
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"Some of them are very religious, some of them are not religious at all," she said.
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The 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) reinforced the religious freedoms outlined in the First Amendment.
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Religious liberty: Lost amidst the health care furor yesterday was an executive order on religious liberty.
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Above all, the survey indicates both intra-religious and inter-religious social divisions within the country.
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If you're not religious, you don't have to buy into what some see as religious overtones.
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Research shows that religious people are more likely than the non-religious to oppose assisted dying.
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Unsurprisingly, non-religious people ranked first, and deeply religious people last, including memorizers of the Koran.
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America is a religious country and our religious leaders are in a unique position to help.
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There, he encountered Jewish religious texts, taught by Harry Austryn Wolfson as works of religious philosophy.
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Most religious laws have no statutes that limit religious consequences of horrific behaviors perpetrated against others.
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In a supposed attempt to defend religious freedoms, Mississippi actually violated religious freedoms, according to Reeves.
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There have been a number of policy developments to celebrate, including the president's religious liberty executive order, the Justice Department religious liberty guidance, the HHS contraception mandate exemption, and the USDA religious liberty guidance clarifying religious liberty protections for those like family business owner Donald Vander Boon — not to mention the confirmation of originalist judges who will respect current religious freedom law.
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Consider that while the ban would make exceptions for "religious minorities" fleeing religious persecution in their home countries, it expressly denies entry to Muslim refugees fleeing religious persecution from Muslim governments.
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Since the 235s, however, the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has conducted periodical censuses of religious bodies in an attempt to get a complete picture of American religious life.
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Imam Abubakar Abdullahi, along with four religious leaders from Sudan, Iraq, Brazil and Cyprus, were awarded the 2019 the International Religious Freedom Award, which is given to advocates of religious freedom.
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With Christian evangelicals and Catholics opposed to abortion, contraception and gay rights now headlining religious-freedom cases, and tiny religious minorities off centre-stage, liberals regard religious accommodations with increasing suspicion.
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The court has judged any official religious practice unconstitutional, but there are still some public schools where overt religious activity persists, and many others where religious beliefs inevitably play a part.
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The bill would allow religious institutions and officials to deny performing same-sex marriage ceremonies, and allow organizations with a religious affiliation to refuse hiring potential employees with differing religious beliefs.
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The Cloisters is this cobbled-together suite of religious buildings, and it feels like a religious space, but it's meant to be experienced strictly aesthetically, with religious belief in the background.
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Religious instruction, which certainly is an important religious activity, would be recognized as the responsibility of the religious community to which it is accountable, and not the responsibility of the secular government.
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Any word or action that is seen to cause offense to any religious group — in fact, anything construed as insulting a religious figure — can make you an open target for religious zealots.
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Those challenges concerned a federal law meant to protect religious liberty called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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The local government has taken measures to prevent and combat religious extremism and protect normal religious activities.
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Religious-National Settlers: The religious-national settlers tend to live in the West Bank for ideological reasons.
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This, again, should resonate with religious conservatives concerned about courts restricting Christian religious displays by local governments.
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With more religious education, it's perhaps not surprising that Israel's best demographers foresee an increasingly religious Israel.
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Mere incidental burdens on one's religious practice are inevitable and cannot be considered infringements on religious liberty.
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Within the religious world, making the Talmud digital, searchable, and replete with hyperlinks will revolutionize religious study.
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Each player belongs to one of two teams: a majority religious group or a minority religious group.
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Within this deeply religious community, families send children to yeshivas, where they are taught traditional religious texts.
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Let's not worsen the problem by creating a legal distinction between the religious and the non-religious.
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Shackelford's vision of "religious freedom" is the ability to promote his personal religious beliefs using our government.
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Religious groups and conservatives insist that such a ban would infringe on their rights to religious freedom.
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This omission has led to governmental failure when it comes to protecting religious minorities from religious-harassment.
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What's being hijacked is not the religious objectors' insurance plans, but the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself.
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For years, religious progressives have attempted to match the outsized political influence of the religious right movement.
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Religious beliefs or a person's membership in a religious body preventing completion of the survey are exceptions.
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William James, "The Varieties of Religious Experience" — for anyone curious about the emotional power of religious experience.
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Religious freedom is hurt, not helped, by more direct entanglement of religious leaders in the political process.
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It offers exemptions for religious groups from participating in activities that they say violate their religious convictions.
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But religious dissenters put up a fight, arguing that it would impinge on freedom of religious expression.
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To investigate this, we use the 2010 US Religious Census to measure religious diversity in Iowa counties.
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In principle, however, none of these social commitments require religious faith or a religious form of organization.
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By eliminating parents' ability to use scholarships at religious schools simply because those school are religious, this rule had the effect of severely restricting families' options in a way that constitutes religious discrimination.
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Zeh sees her work at the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice as a continuation of her religious tradition.
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He has shown remarkably little interest in the religious conservatism of the Religious Right, despite picking Indiana Gov.
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But in Zubik, the employers have attacked the religious accommodation itself as a substantial burden on religious liberty.
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But some observers were skeptical that the religious left could equal the religious right politically any time soon.
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But haven't religious people often condoned racism, and even marshaled religious texts to legitimate and intensify their hate?
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Conversations on religious freedom and tolerance often take place with senior, well-known religious leaders in capital cities.
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Intellect and religious feeling can co-exist, because that religious feeling springs from a place intellect doesn't reach.
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"It suggests that the president has no real interest in religious persecution or the tenets of religious freedom."
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This was a straightforward application of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed by Congress to protect religious liberty.
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It's not just that our religious beliefs affect our politics — it's that our politics affect our religious choices.
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Private schools are allowed to request religious exemptions from civil rights laws that conflict with their religious tenets.
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Advocates argued that some people seeking services at religious organizations may feel pressured to participate in religious activity.
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Certainly, the Court's right flank is eager to tear down any distinction between religious identity and religious action.
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There is no ethnic or religious profile, people from of all ethnicities and religious beliefs commit mass murder.
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One party's candidates support religious freedom, so it naturally follows that the other party's candidates endorse religious tyranny.
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The settlements traditionally vote right-wing, with Likud mainly competing with religious and ultra-religious parties for votes.
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For me, it comes out of a religious conviction and religious desire to be in contact with God.
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The religious should not be forced to choose between their religious identity and equal participation in public life.
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America is much more religious than Europe because political and religious power was fused there for so long.
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But one of America's foremost legal scholars of religious liberty, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, filed a brief on behalf of several religious organisations that aggressively pushes Mr Phillips's religious freedom claim.
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Voters in those states should remember that their Senators have turned their back on the priority of religious freedom and abandoned religious dissidents in China, religious minorities in Iran, and slaughtered Rohingya in Myanmar.
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The sad truth is that the religious right is not defending religious liberty — they are redefining it into a broad license to discriminate against anyone for any reason that is rooted in religious belief.
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A federal judge, however, has just blown up the entire argument for the law, finding that it in fact violates religious freedoms — by favoring explicitly anti-LGBTQ religious views over LGBTQ-friendly religious views.
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" The groups also call for the president and ICE to "immediately provide" those immigrants detained in Victorville "adequate health care, nutrition, out-of-cell time, programming, reading materials, religious diets, religious clothing and jewelry, religious texts, opportunities for prayer and group worship, and other accommodations necessary to practice their religious beliefs.
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In an increasingly fragmented society, where the largest "religious" group in America is the religiously "unaffiliated," where even religious faith is increasingly decentralized, corporations have become the closest thing many people have to religious bodies.
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The document refutes these mistaken assumptions by stating that religious liberty "also encompasses religious observance and practice" in the workplace and public square and that organizations of private citizens also have rights to religious liberty.
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Critics of the FACT Act have argued that religious reproductive counseling causes minimal harm to women and that it is of paramount importance to protect the "sincerely held religious beliefs" of religious organizations and individuals.
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The second contrast lies in the fizzling of the post-1970s religious revival, the defeat of the religious right on practically every issue save abortion and the waning of the religious case for female domesticity.
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Mahsud, 40, studied at a number of religious seminaries in Pakistan to specialize in different fields of religious teaching.
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About 97 percent of non-religious women had heard of HPV, compared to about 90 percent of religious women.
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These commonsense measures ensure that religious institutions are accountable to and dependent on their religious communities, not government entities.
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But, Jackson is now a pretty religious Black Hebrew Israelite -- and playing gay doesn't jive with his religious beliefs.
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" The statement continued: "Our father's life and work meant many things to many people, both religious and non-religious.
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It's been spreading in recent decades among conservative intellectuals, libertarian legal thinkers, religious conservatives, secular libertarians, and religious conservatives.
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The fact of the matter is, this is a trampling of religious freedom and religious liberty in this country.
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A 35-year study of families conducted at USC found that allowing children religious choice can encourage religious continuity.
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There's an element of religious fervor to this film and an element of digging into non-mainstream religious beliefs.
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Religious liberty One of the most controversial cases of the term pits claims of religious liberty against LGBT rights.
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There is nothing innately religious about Syria's war, but its broader political forces have played out along religious lines.
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Religious hardliners forced the closure of cinemas in the 1980s, claiming they were a threat to Saudi religious identity.
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Connecticut and Illinois even have Religious Freedom Restoration Acts on the books to protect religious freedom from government interference.
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And it protects the rights of religious institutions to govern themselves in a manner consistent with their religious missions.
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The country's religious divisions parallel its regional splits, with religious and evangelical white voters heavily concentrated in the South.
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He sided with a religious group, Little Sisters of the Poor, that claimed the law violated its religious freedom.
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By some measures, the wealthy grow more religious and the poor become less religious where there is higher inequality.
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So to most people, you're not black and religious, because to be black in America is to be religious.
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Religious Freedom Restoration Act Mike Pence gained notoriety in 2015 for signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act into law.
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For many leaders from a variety of religious communities, access to health care is a religious issue as well.
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But it shouldn't require that experience to understand that religious freedom for some is really religious freedom for none.
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As a corollary to its religious liberty, Pennsylvania soon became a successful political experiment in religious pluralism and toleration.
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A child died at his father's hand during a religious ritual intended to expel religious demons from his body.
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That is why Khamenei issued absurd religious decrees (fatwas) declaring the casting of a ballot as a religious obligation.
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In doing so, we not only failed to take advantage of religious argument, we came across as anti-religious.
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The Trump administration's move was cheered by religious groups who argued the Obama rule violated those groups' religious liberties.
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Moreover, Title VII's religious exemptions are narrowly tailored such that they only apply to a religious organization's employment decisions.
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Furthermore, evidence suggests that the religious mind persists even when we lose faith in traditional religious beliefs and institutions.
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Officials have banned beards, religious instruction of children and even the granting of names with religious connotations to children.
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First is the rise of the religious right, which sees hard-line support for Israel as a religious obligation.
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Azuza has several duties as the town's head of religious affairs, including helping with the revision of religious textbooks.
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Under the guise of "religious freedom," the Trump administration issued a policy in November that gave employers more flexibility to deny coverage for contraception based on religious beliefs and "non-religious moral convictions" against birth control.
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The judges, additionally, said the board could have accomplished its goals without "conveying an explicitly religious message or performing a religious activity" by, for example, having someone read about the importance of religious diversity or pluralism.
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The administration had been accused of dragging its feet over this issue by religious-freedom activists as well as by Christian leaders, from America's religious left as the religious right, who don't agree on much else.
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In 238, 27 percent of Americans said they celebrated Christmas as a religious holiday, including 22013 percent who saw it primarily as a religious holiday and 443 percent who said it was both religious and cultural.
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But my religious freedom — everyone's religious freedom — took a hit when my state decided that instead of slowing down to accommodate religious difference, the execution, which is final and irrevocable, had to go on as scheduled.
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There's stuff made by Islamic women that stood in the face of religious tradition that were destroyed for religious reasons.
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Image by Adam Mignanelli and Lia Kantrowitz Most rappers are religious, but most rap fans are leery of religious rap.
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Some cite religious reasons, claiming religious scripture gives Jews a right to build anywhere in Israel and the West Bank.
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Of the alleged perpetrators, 32% were religious brothers, 30% were priests, 29% were lay people and 5% were religious sisters.
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The MUI is responsible for issuing fatwas, or religious edicts, and providing religious guidance, carrying moral force, but not legal.
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Womanist Theology validates the role of women in religious texts through revising and reconsidering traditional Biblical interpretation and religious practice.
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About 36 percent of religious women were fully vaccinated against HPV, compared to about 60 percent of non-religious women.
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Ultimately, for these religious groups — like for many of Masterpiece Cakeshop's secular critics — religious liberty can only go so far.
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On the religious side, you know I'm a religious Jew, so that means you're almost obligated religiously to say "Moses".
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It appears they'll take the "religious freedom" route, making it easier for employers with religious objections to skirt the mandate.
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Xinhua said this had been accomplished by inviting religious leaders and scholars to talk to prisoners about "correct religious belief".
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While plenty of religious conservatives believe the Constitution should safeguard religious freedom as much as possible, Moore goes much further.
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It's currently unclear just how far religious-affiliated hospitals could take this newly confirmed right to religious freedom in California.
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"It's the spread of religious restrictions and identity beyond the bounds of places we think of as religious," Sepper says.
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The same is true of people who are religious; they're likely to meet other religious people because of their lifestyle.
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Now, companies will be able to exempt themselves based on "non-religious moral objections," instead of expressly demonstrated religious beliefs.
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Until recently, Belgium allowed religious exceptions so that halal and kosher meat production could continue as dictated by religious rules.
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In India, each religious community has their own set of laws based on their religious texts which govern family matters.
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For religious conservatives, culture diverts black migrants from strict religious orthodoxy — even sub-Saharans who are Muslim aren't really Muslim.
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Here is Hill on religious liberty: I believe we must protect the religious liberties and the beliefs of all Georgians.
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The US Commission on International Religious Freedom produces an annual report surveying the state of religious freedoms across the world.
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Their unreasonable demands assert that religious organizations are disqualified from competing for a federal contract simply because they are religious.
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Religious institutions like schools and churches have said that forcing them to comply with that violates the religious freedom law.
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"Their religious beliefs say they don't approve of gay marriage, but my religious beliefs say that we can," he said.
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Plus, any precedent allowing state funds to flow to religious institutions could be used to legitimize discrimination on religious grounds.
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Mr. Bonaparte owned a religious gift store, King Soloman Religious, on Rutland Road, about two miles from the couple's home.
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Religious nationalists dream of a time when most or all social welfare services pass through the hands of religious entities.
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It argues that religious freedom is enhanced rather than threatened by preventing the flow of public money to religious institutions.
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As in most states, the majority of Montana's private schools are religious; in Montana, all the religious schools are Christian.
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The religious affairs directorate, which oversees the teaching of Islam, has trained 70 prison chaplains to work with religious extremists.
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Serena Joy is a young, married, religious zealot who helps author the ideas at the root of a religious revolution.
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He did in fact grow up both religious and conservative, attending a yeshiva (religious school) in a West Bank settlement.
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But some legislators and religious groups have argued that the stricter marriage laws infringe on religious freedom and parents' rights.
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Religious liberty legal precedents lend support to consequential free speech cases, because religious speech has often been targeted for suppression.
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It should keep religious organizations partisanship-free zones, not transform them into houses of political worship or religious Mega PACs.
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And under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the question was first, was this a substantial burden on the religious exercise?
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Both speakers at the event organised this week by Ekklesia, a religious think-tank, saw an urgent need for more and better religious education; they are, after all, distinguished religious educators so that too might be expected.
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Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo convened the first ever Religious Freedom Ministerial in Washington, D.C., drawing religious freedom ministers and advocates from over 80 countries to discuss the vital importance of international religious freedom.
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Four years ago, 244 percent of Americans said they celebrated Christmas as a religious holiday, including 226 percent who said it was primarily religious for them and 220 percent who treated it as both religious and cultural.
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The Cameroon American Council works with the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and George Washington University's Loeb Institute for Religious Freedom, among others, to ensure religious freedom is protected in word and in deed.
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Here is how religious exemptions work: Religious exemptions allow parents to opt their children out of mandated vaccination policies if they object to the vaccine for religious reasons, and if they follow the state's opt-out process.
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Restrictions on religious membership were lifted in 1991, but governmental restrictions on the building of new churches, as well as the importation of religious literature, have in many ways kept religious practice in the private, domestic sphere: "Home churches" are popular, as are syncretic combinations of Catholic and Afro-Caribbean religious practice, including Santeria.
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Religious liberty Reality Check: Abdul-Jabbar on religious liberty laws By Jasmine Lee and Karl de Vries, CNN NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says recent religious freedom acts are the "opposite" of what founding father Thomas Jefferson wanted.
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The Little Sisters of the Poor, or any religious order for that matter, will always have their religious liberty protected on my watch and will not have to face bullying from the government because of their religious beliefs.
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This week, a group of faith leaders, religious and human rights organizations launched the Coalition to Advance Religious Freedom in China to provide a unified front of Americans of all faiths in support of religious freedom in China.
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People are more likely to give to charitable and religious causes when they have parents who were givers and partners who are supportive of giving, and when religious affiliations regularly expose them to religious-based calls to give.
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The order also states that the U.S. would provide preferential treatment to religious minorities facing religious persecution in the seven countries.
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You have your more religious bungalow colonies and your less religious bungalow colonies, your Hasidic bungalow colonies and your Sephardic ones.
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They were both raised in cultures of religious repression, and cultures of religious repression can lead to messed-up sexual experiences.
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Religious violence is as old as religion itself, but the dynamics that lead to clashes between religious groups are remarkably complex.
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The polling shows that both people who identify as religious, and those who don't, believe the problem lies with religious ideology.
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It doesn't even have to mean you're religious — I met plenty of passionate pro-life students that weren't religious at all.
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This seeks to prevent the state from interfering in citizens' religious lives, and to free the state itself from religious influence.
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Child welfare providers can also require children under their care to receive a religious education, including putting them in religious schools.
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This does not apply to employers that are religious institutions or religious non-profits; they have their own set of exemptions.
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But, unlike other religious communities, which were mainly teaching the Koran and performing private religious prayers, Gulen's group became increasingly politicized.
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Last week, during a visit to Hong Kong, the U.S. ambassador for religious freedom called on Beijing to end religious persecution.
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Nothing but insults and degrading comments about Muslims — a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty.
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Among its broad conclusions: On all the standard measures of religious commitment examined...Christian women are more religious than Christian men.
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The conference inspired religious liberals, including Jews, to address "hitherto forbidden sexual topics," adding further religious authority to sex-positive attitudes.
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To be sure, America remains one of the most religious nations on earth and the most religious in the Western world.
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Unlikely. If the regime wants to boost its religious credentials, it could reverse course and unleash the religious police on society.
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The Indian government is actively capturing citizens who dare to exercise their religious beliefs and Nida happens to be actively religious.
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"Barring religious organizations because they are religious from a general historic preservation grants program is pure discrimination against religion," Kavanaugh wrote.
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Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, he said the question was whether this represented a substantial burden on their religious exercise.
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Even though Kavanaugh has been called a "warrior for religious liberty" by conservatives, he voted against religious liberty in this case.
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The Russell Amendment protects the abilities of religious organizations to make staffing decisions in keeping with their religious identity and mission.
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The religious right lobby sees religious freedom not as tolerance for all, but about privileging one set beliefs over all others.
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It also recommends visa bans against violators of religious freedom, as provided for in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998.
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Most nation-states arose out of ethnic and religious identities, and many conflicts among nations were, at their heart, religious wars.
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Supporters call it a religious liberty law that protects the sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals and businesses.
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And it turns out that the happiest of all wives in America are religious conservatives, followed by their religious progressive counterparts.
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It's worth noting that not all evangelicals support Trump's wider efforts to court the religious right through similar "religious freedom" initiatives.
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Ironically, one group that might wind up discriminated against by the religious exemptions case is — wait for it — religious groups themselves.
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Trump's standing with all religious voters -- and, in particular, nonwhite religious voters -- is considerably weaker than it is among white evangelicals.
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"Many devout families are required by their religious status to place their children in full-time religious schooling," their brief claims.
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O'Connor also found that the rule violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because it substantially burdened the healthcare providers' religious rights.
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He left after 15 minutes for the religious freedom event, where he announced US funding for protecting religious sites and relics.
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It involves elements of religious instruction, but it does not concern a targeted exclusion of state support for vocational religious instruction.
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Price has said in the past that the contraception mandate is 'trampling on religious freedom and religious liberty in this country.
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Religious attacks Two separate violent attacks shook religious communities on a weekend that was supposed to be about celebration and togetherness.
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The religious group, Priests for Life, argued it was being forced to provide health coverage for contraceptives despite its religious objections.
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The best cure for religious trauma may be a deeper dive into the spiritual core of religious teachings, Dr. Koenig says.
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Even in recent years, "deregulation" of religion has boosted religious participation, though not enough to offset a less religious cultural milieu.
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In a remarkable amicus brief for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, he explains why the plaintiffs' request would have the ironic consequence of radically curtailing religious liberty: "Opponents of broad religious exemptions would be forced to oppose even narrow religious exemptions", Mr Laycock reasons, "because any narrow exemption would inevitably lead to a much broader exemption".
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According to a government notification circulating on Weibo, China's popular microblogging site, the three mosques were targeted because local authorities considered them illegal religious sites that had organized illegal religious education in violation of China's Regulation on Religious Affairs.
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Religious institutions encounter real difficulties Religious freedom bills have actually been growing since the U.S. Religious Freedom Restoration Act became law in 1993, which was designed to prohibit the federal government from "substantially burdening" a person's exercise of religion.
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Once we concede that anything must be accommodated in the name of religious freedom, we will be forced to define what constitutes a "valid" religious belief, a question that by its very nature undermines the point of religious freedom.
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Religious liberty laws promoted by some Christians seek to protect or withhold services to conservative Christians under the guise of religious liberty, when in fact this has nothing to do with religious liberty and everything to do with oppression.
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The political rise of the religious right The rise of the religious right as a political force would prove a boon for Ronald Reagan, which in turn offered a reciprocal and lasting boost to the religious conservatives' political fortunes.
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But you don't need to be religious to think that way, and you don't need to be religious to enjoy 53 Sundays.
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Turkish Shiite women take part in a religious procession held for the Shiite religious holiday of Ashura on Sept 20, in Istanbul.
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And that's why religious groups from a variety of faiths support the no-aid rule as an essential protection for religious liberty.
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Our country's experience for more than 200 years demonstrates that religious liberty is best protected when the government avoids funding religious exercise.
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In college, it was a marker of religious affiliation; if a student made time to pray, that meant she was truly religious.
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Another 24 percent found the thrice-married real estate tycoon not too religious, and 23 percent found him not religious at all.
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In the new research on religious violence, the researchers had to explicitly describe how people make decisions based on their religious beliefs.
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In her story, a young bride from a religious home insists on waiting until marriage to sleep with her non-religious fiancé.
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These are still the founders, still the original people, which I hate to use a religious term, but I find them religious.
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"The Party's leadership over religious work must be upheld," You said, adding that "the infiltration of religious extremism must be guarded against".
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Cults are especially worrisome because religious and quasi-religious activities give their followers a focus of loyalty that competes with the party.
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This is why we might see a decline in religious participation or an increase in religious doubts over time for porn users.
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That would be a setback, not an advance, for religious freedom in a nation composed of people of many different religious faiths.
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With President Trump expected to sign a controversial order on religious liberty, Canada is facing a religious freedom controversy of its own.
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Studies show that religious freedom can make substantial contributions to democratic stability, economic growth and the undermining of religious violence and terrorism.
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The church was denied funds to resurfacing its playground because of its religious purpose while giving the money to non-religious organizations.
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"Courage House respects religious freedom and works to ensure that every girl has access to opportunities to attend religious services," they wrote.
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These two elements – religious discrimination and Internet access – recently came together in a way that was particularly threatening to the religious establishment.
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Local government officials have been charged by Beijing to closely monitor and close "unauthorized religious gatherings" under the Religious Affairs Regulation directive.
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All other members of both chambers identify as a member of a religious group or have declined to specify their religious identification.
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So it has marshaled the state's religious apparatus to condemn the jihadists and proclaim the religious duty of obedience to the rulers.
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Choice among schools of varied religious and non-religious bents exists in many countries, and numerous states have private school choice programs.
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Since the enactment of the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in 1993, the concept of religious freedom has been grossly distorted.
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I'm not a religious person, but you have to have kind of a religious commitment to things to be positional about them.
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Violent militants strategically adopt religious rhetoric to mobilize followers and retain members, resulting in a cycle of violence steeped in religious language.
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At the same time, millennials are the least religious group of people in America — only about 27 percent attend weekly religious services.
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This language goes beyond the protection for religious actors contained in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the law that fueled Burwell v.
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The Labor Department proposal would apply to self-identified religious groups and companies with a "religious purpose" that receive federal government contracts.
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But religious scholars said that Rutgers was reaching a new frontier where its social agenda in some ways overshadowed its religious one.
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A religious experience Since Europeans first settled this area of "New France," Québec has maintained a strong religious presence rooted in faith.
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" The government responded that the four had simply "recited" religious beliefs "for the purpose of draping religious garb over their political activity.
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Trump described protecting religious freedom as one of his "highest priorities" and called on other nations to halt persecution of religious communities.
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Although not as powerful as the religious right, the "religious left" is now slowly coming together as a force in U.S. politics.
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In 2014, the Pew Research Center conducted a massive Religious Landscape Study, which revealed some striking changes in the American religious landscape.
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The Anglican Communion's decision shows the divisions not just between different religious groups over same-sex marriage, but also within religious groups.
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"After repeatedly informing local residents about the details of the Regulation on Religious Affairs through outreach programs, some members of the mosques continued to organize illegal religious activities at these illegal religious sites," the Weishan County government said in the notification.
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" Moreover, there's nothing to stop religious groups from objecting to the notice as well, a fact Kavanaugh notes in his dissent: "To be sure, some religious organizations claim that" the notice "still imposes a substantial burden on their religious beliefs.
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As Trump's willingness to work closely with extreme religious conservatives becomes steadily more apparent, many secular groups fear we will spend the next four years under the tyranny of religious authoritarians who invoke religious freedom to roll back civil rights.
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Gabbard seems to think, preventing religious coercion is exactly the type of assault on religious freedom that members of the Judiciary Committee have in mind when they ask nominees if they can separate their religious convictions from their judicial discernment.
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As Trump's willingness to work closely with extreme religious conservatives becomes steadily more apparent, many secular groups fear we will spend the next four years under the tyranny of religious authoritarians who invoke religious freedom to roll back civil rights.
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"The free Exercise Clause 'protects religious observers against unequal treatment' and subjects to the strictest scrutiny laws that target the religious for 'special disabilities' based on their religious status," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in delivering the opinion of the court.
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While Trump accurately referred to Buddhist, Sikhs, and Jains — three religious groups that also celebrate the holiday — he omitted Hindus, the religious group with which the holiday is most closely associated, and the largest religious group to celebrate the holiday.
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Religious-freedom diplomacy should demand adoption of religious freedom goals in states where terrorism is incubated, especially authoritarian regimes that oppress religious minorities and majorities alike, including those who are U.S. allies such as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and India.
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Under the "ministerial exception" courts generally have given broad leeway for religious institutions to hire and fire religious staff as they see fit.
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Eleven religious organizations sued over the Affordable Care Act, arguing that a mandate requiring employers to provide contraceptive coverage violated their religious freedoms.
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No claim of responsibility The attack targeted one of the most symbolic religious sites for Copts, an ethno-religious group centered in Egypt.
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A number of explanations could account for the differences between religious and non-religious women's knowledge and receipt of the vaccine, said Kepka.
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But this also led to a backlash from conservative, religious Americans, culminating in multiple political and legal battles over religious freedom in 2015.
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Often they target religious minorities, including Muslim minorities such as the Ahmadiyya, as well as those who have no religious faith at all.
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But Mr. Trump's religious posturing is not about theology, it's about branding — and if his religious worldview seems impossibly dated, that's by design.
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The memorial service embraced many religious faiths including an opening reading from the Quran by scholar and the family's religious adviser, Imam Shakir.
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Local governments are also discouraged from erecting large religious effigies and building temples in non-religious locations for the sake of attracting tourists.
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Shahbaz Taseer, the son of the assassinated governor, believes Khan's strategy of pandering to religious conservatism is dangerous, because it mainstreams religious fundamentalism.
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But when it comes to the religious institutions, they are in inviolate in my mind, and I would fight for those religious institutions.
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China's constitution guarantees religious freedom, but rights groups say the officially atheist ruling Communist Party seeks to restrict religious practice, especially for Muslims.
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If you combine Smith, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and Hobby Lobby, does that add up to a workable framework for religious liberty?
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For some people, prayer and religious ritual is helpful, but rituals like these don't necessarily have to be part of a religious tradition.
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The Higher Islamic Council, the country's most important religious body, decreed that the harga was haram, contrary to religious law, and a sin.
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World Relief trained 130 religious and community leaders to disseminate accurate information about healthy timing and spacing of births, while respecting religious values.
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The "religious liberty" order will reportedly allow employers to discriminate in their hiring practices if employing someone would go against their religious beliefs.
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Burns Strider, Clinton's religious adviser during her 2008 Oval Office bid, said late last month she is more religious than most observers realize.
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The condition has religious undertones given its association with a religious relic called the Veil of Veronica, a cloth imprinted with Jesus' face.
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Gorsuch called religious tests illegal, outlining various protections including the First and 14th amendments to the Constitution and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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H.R. McMaster said Trump's agenda includes religious freedom, cooperating with the Catholic Church in humanitarian missions and combating religious persecution and human trafficking.
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All too often, conflicts over land, power, or human rights play out along religious lines but are not truly based on religious differences.
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Rather than avoiding religious engagement, governments need to provide training for their foreign and civil servants on how to work with religious communities.
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Sharon Rosen is Search for Common Ground's Global Director for Religious Engagement, where she supports inter- and intra-religious work in 43 countries.
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So apparently, if you are not a practicing member of a religious group, you have no standing with the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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For years, confusion has attached to the question of whether religious organizations can contract with government as religious organizations without violating the law.
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I propose that it's time for a great divorce, that there should be no more "Religious Right," only the religious doing what's right.
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This declaration condemns religious persecution worldwide and has a Plan of Action that offers steps to support religious freedom on a global scale.
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The religious groups said that houses of worship already can host candidate forums, and religious leaders can endorse candidates in their personal capacities.
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A small city with a tight knit, religious community, Diana always chafed against the hypocrisy he saw in the quiet, religious little town.
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"Regardless of how religious commitment or prosperity are measured, the general pattern holds: Religious commitment is lower in places where life is easier."
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He's not political, he's not the follower of an ideology, he grew up in a religious background but he's not a religious man.
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The religious brotherhoods lead the city's world-famous Easter processions, when hooded penitents walk alongside richly decorated floats with religious sculptures on them.
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By most accounts, Mr. Saleh was not devoutly religious, but he paid attention to managing the Islamists who thrived in Yemen's religious culture.
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Religious freedom in America is about tolerance and unity in diversity, not about imposing one narrow set of religious beliefs on everyone else.
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Americans these days, especially young adults, are less likely to identify with a religious faith, attend church or engage in other religious practices.
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Governments in countries where religious or traditional laws have a strong influence should work closely with religious leaders to end discrimination, she added.
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Doing so has long enabled progressives to dun the religious right by claiming that it tries to force its religious beliefs on others.
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So, forgive me for my surprise when the president recently gave a speech on religious freedom, urging other nations to address religious persecution.
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Convicting my client of a crime for his refusal on religious grounds to participate in state-mandated medical trials will erode religious liberty.
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Rather than challenge the Moral Majority on religious terms, they argued that religious leaders had no right to impose their viewpoints on others.
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Under current law, a religious organization that is not a contractor could refuse to hire workers who do not share certain religious beliefs.
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But in Lutheran practice, she was "called" and deemed qualified to lead religious services and perform other religious functions in the church school.
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Comer, in which the the high court found it discriminatory to exclude religious institutions from certain government programs simply because they are religious.
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It also said religious organizations may be exempt from following certain discrimination laws if doing so would conflict with the organization's religious principles.
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Under current law, a religious organization that is not a contractor could refuse to hire workers who do not share certain religious beliefs.
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Since the entire point of religious liberty is that the government can't favor one religious belief over another, Mississippi's law is blatantly unconstitutional.
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Religious studies experts began giving counter-testimony arguing there was no such thing, and that brainwashing claims undermined religious freedom and free will.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions was heckled by religious leaders for his approach to the migrant crisis at a religious freedom event Monday morning.
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Religious leaders often lead and set the tone for Muslim communities, which includes religious healers, so Dr. Sekandari and her colleagues at Mentalhealth4muslims.
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And although the Oscar Wilde Temple isn't technically a religious worship space, it certainly provides a space for LGBTQ people — some of whom may have been excluded from traditional religious settings — to participate in acts and rituals that certainly qualify as religious.
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Businesses that were frequently targeted by the religious police, or that had employees who were particularly religious (and thus likely to report Salat infractions), might close early or wait until the last religious police patrol had rolled by to open back up.
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Pauley A religious rights case from Missouri in which a church contends the state violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of religious freedom by denying it funds for a playground project due to a state ban on aid to religious organizations.
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McConnell, who has been called "one of the preeminent legal minds on religious liberty," has argued some of the most important religious freedom cases to come before the Supreme Court in recent years and helped to found Stanford Law School's religious liberty clinic.
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" In an interview in the program book, Mr. Laufenberg explains that he sees the opera as not exactly religious, but as "pan-religious," or "post-religious," a work that goes "beyond religion" and that at the same time "explores the origin of religion.
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But inmates of other religious denominations — for example, Buddhist inmates such as Murphy — who want their religious adviser to be present can have the religious adviser present only in the viewing room and not in the execution room itself for their executions.
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"The Department's efforts will level the playing field between religious and non-religious organizations competing for federal grants, as well as protect First Amendment freedoms on campus and the religious liberty of faith-based institutions," Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement.
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There is a danger, however, in stereotyping evangelical voters as a homogeneous bloc that prioritizes religious belief and religious observance above all other concerns.
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The US State Department, in its latest report on religious freedom around the world, finds that many religious minorities remain as oppressed as ever.
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While most of the amicus briefs filed were from Christian or Christian-affiliated religious groups, imams, rabbis, and other religious representatives also filed briefs.
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Nevertheless, some religious conservatives have at times embraced ambiguity in religious freedom policies in the past, believing the scope can be litigated in court.
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At the moment, religious education is largely determined by local authorities, and parents have the right to withdraw their offspring from religious-education classes.
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While the license will enable them to "preach and offer religious training", they will not be allowed to live-stream or broadcast religious activities.
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Smith was unpopular, and Congress soon passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to restore a higher level of protection for religious free exercise.
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If your family is religious and your partner is an atheist, then a religious holiday probably isn't the best time for them to meet.
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But writer and religious scholar Reza Aslan said that it's a mistake to look to theology and religious authorities to lead on LGBTQ rights.
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But also in things like freeing up your religion, freeing up your thoughts, freeing up your… You talk about religious liberty and religious freedom.
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Give me an episode about how a religious order of women thought about the rise of this religious cult centered on controlling women's bodies.
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Addressing a conference on religious freedom at the State Department, Pence highlighted the detention of religious dissidents in Eritrea, Mauritania, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
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A recent Pew poll suggests that in both the United States and Western Europe, religious identity and religious belief aren't the same at all.
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"The parties highlighted the importance of inter-religious dialogue and the responsibility of religious communities in promoting reconciliation, tolerance and peace," the Vatican said.
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Some religious groups running schools or hospitals have objected to contraception being covered in their employees' insurance plans, saying it violates their religious beliefs.
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Then, as now, religious professionals were wary of a game that transcended religious and cultural categories, and stimulated the brain rather than the soul.
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That finding was driven primarily by the US, where measles has been spreading among religious communities in states that have allowed religious vaccine exemptions.
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However, the proposal was defeated by the Council of Islamic Ideology, a religious committee that advises the Pakistani Parliament on compatibility with religious law.
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Religious leaders in Malaysia have already called for a ban on the game from being downloaded in the country, citing possible religious tension arising.
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The Obamacare rules limited the birth control exemptions to religious organizations or those that were family-owned and could demonstrate their sincere religious beliefs.
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Of these, the most unreliable partner is viewed as Saudi: the United States is allying with a religious dictatorship to contain a religious dictatorship.
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The country's highest official religious fatwa authority criticized Hattar for what it said was the "insult to the divine entity, Islam and religious symbols".
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That is the foundation of religious freedom in this country and the weaponization of religious exceptions and "conscience objections" in medicine do harm people.
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Some religious minorities, like Christians, could remain in the city, if they paid a religious tax, but Yazidis and Shiites faced enslavement or slaughter.
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"The First Amendment stands as a bulwark against official religious prejudice and embodies our nation's deep commitment to religious plurality and tolerance," she said.
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If one historical figure religious conservatives recognize were around today, he might say it's time to drive the religious from the temple of democracy.
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Conservative groups in Australia have highlighted religious freedom cases in the United States and Britain in their arguments for more protection of religious beliefs.
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The House also added nonlicensed counselors into the bill, banning anyone operating for a religious organization, religious denomination or church, the news outlet reported.
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As I explain in my new book from Oxford University Press, "Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination," religious liberty is a birthright of all Americans.
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In most prisons across the US, inmates have access to priests and group religious services and are allowed to possess religious items, like rosaries.
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It presents the chance to teach America's schoolchildren, religious and non, that anti-religious discrimination is un-American and unconstitutional and needs to go.
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However, the difference was that most of these people attended religious services on occasion and said that their religious beliefs informed their sexual views.
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So my concern is that when the state offers tax incentives to what is essentially a religious enterprise, they are promoting that religious group.
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U.S. ambassador for religious freedom, Sam Brownback, told reporters the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom will include more than a dozen government ministers.
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"You have to be very cautious when it comes to handling religious issues," Islam analyst and editor of religious books Mohamed Mouloudi told Reuters.
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Being present in religious spaces isn't just another social gathering for us or the 77% of Americans who, according to Pew, identify as religious.
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No individual's religious freedom should be able to threaten public health, and certainly not because those who prioritize religious freedom tend to vote Republican.
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But religious Jews were always unhappy that the founding generation wasn't really motivated by a religious understanding of the Jewish people in the world.
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A new move by the Trump administration would allow religious groups, nonprofits and small businesses to deny insurance coverage for "religious or moral" reasons.
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Yet even then, the Democratic Party's leaders retained a connection to those religious traditions, which allowed them to maintain their appeal to religious voters.
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Madinah Brown, a Muslim woman, wears the hijab, a religious head covering, "in accordance with her sincerely held religious beliefs," according to the complaint.
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He said that Montana's amendment that bars state funds for religious schools violates the equal protection clause because it is rooted in religious animus.
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And while church attendance is collapsing among young people — only 27 percent of millennials attend religious services weekly — campuses have relatively vibrant religious scenes.
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Trump has positioned himself as a champion of religious liberty and his administration has taken steps that officials argue encourage and protect religious freedom.
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On Thursday, the president is expected to mark Religious Freedom Day by signing an executive order "updating guidance on religious prayer" in public schools.
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The religious right has become a reliable voting bloc for the Republican Party, leading critics to say it is far more political than religious.
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"This is an issue that also deals with religious conscience and religious freedom, so there has to be a well-maintained balance," Ryan added.
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But a number of Democrats, charities and even some religious groups have supported the current ban on political activity by religious groups and nonprofits.
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American Muslims are the religious minority group likeliest to report experiencing religious discrimination in the US, and Republicans have become increasingly hawkish on immigration.
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The challenge was brought by a religious group that argued it was being forced to provide health coverage for contraceptives despite its religious objections.
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Specifically, the law explicitly allowed government officials, businesses, and religious organizations to cite their religious beliefs to discriminate against LGBTQ people in certain settings.
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Chinese authorities routinely deny any ethnic or religious repression in Xinjiang and say its measures are needed to combat the influence of religious extremism.
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Religious liberty and school choice advocates hoped a ruling in the church's favor would advance the cause of directing state funds toward religious organizations, including parochial schools, since Missouri is just one of 37 states that bars state funds from going to religious groups.
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I read dozens of amicus briefs submitted to the court by a number of religious groups, including the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and the United States Conferences of Catholic Bishops, to better understand religious arguments for and against Phillips.
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Just three in 10 religiously unaffiliated Americans ranked as spiritual but not religious, suggesting that most spiritual-but-not-religious Americans maintain links with a more formal religious identity; the largest groups of these identify as mainline Protestant (18 percent) or Catholic (18 percent).
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"Leaving the fate of Syrian religious minorities to the tender mercies of Turkey would risk religious cleansing and likely negate the measures...of the new [American] law to help them," says Nina Shea of the Hudson Institute, one of America's leading religious-freedom watchers.
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The campaign has also rolled out a steady stream of religious-minded endorsements, including a religious liberty advisory board earlier this month, a dignity of life and South Carolina religious liberty advisory board last week, and on Saturday, an endorsement list from Iowa pastors.
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Of late, the National Association of Evangelicals, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty have been pulling conservative Christianity toward religious freedom for all, though not without substantial pushback.
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But when you accuse a religious figure, there's a whole other kind of discomfort, one that comes from the friends, family members and other religious leaders who consider speaking out about a religious crime as airing dirty laundry for the entire world to see.
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New rules governing religious schools from China's cabinet, due to take effect in February, are necessary to meet China's "pressing need" for patriotic religious leaders, Wang Zuoan, the head of China's official State Administration of Religious Affairs, told Reuters in written comments in October.
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Many religious leaders believe that this new religious movement is causing more violence in the country's streets and leading to the devil possessing people's souls.
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While that dissent didn't totally agree with all of the religious organizations' arguments, Kavanaugh did believe that the contraception mandate infringed on their religious beliefs.
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"The voice has so many sublime and deep meanings and one of them is religious, but I'm not interested in mining religious motifs," he says.
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Contempt for and irrational fear of a religious group cannot be squared, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote, with the First Amendment's bar on religious discrimination.
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The big picture: A State Department report on religious freedom, released 2 weeks ago, mentioned concerns raised by U.S. Jews over religious freedom in Israel.
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But from 2009 it has allowed religious-only marriages, in deference to newcomers from Muslim countries and Israel, another land where only religious nuptials count.
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On a single Sunday morning, the announcement said, 700 religious banners were removed, 200 religious texts seized and 31 illegal Christian gathering places shut down.
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Christian and Jewish religious marriages are valid under English law, but other religious marriages aren&apost recognized unless they are accompanied by a civil marriage.
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Sam Brownback, who has a long history of promoting religious liberty and helped author the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act when he was a senator.
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Under the accommodation, a religious non-profit must first notify the group that issues its health plan, or HHS, that it has a religious objection.
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When the Moral Monday Movement began in North Carolina in 2013, religious leaders issued a joint statement urging activism not along partisan but religious lines.
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The closure of the religious school is among a series of incidents that have stoked religious tensions in the country's commercial capital in recent weeks.
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Senegal is more than 90 percent Muslim and many of its religious leaders preach against homosexuality, although the country is broadly known for religious tolerance.
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Unfortunately, those who don't share their elected leaders' religious beliefs are often unable to participate fully in public life when the government abandons religious neutrality.
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The real estate mogul is seen as "not too" or "not at all" religious by 60% of voters and "very" or "somewhat" religious by 30%.
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While social justice activists who cite their religious beliefs have seen few legal victories, their efforts have at times shifted the conversation on religious freedom.
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There they met with government officials, members of parliament, and religious and civil society groups, confronted religious freedom violations, and discussed concrete and workable solutions.
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When looking at the contemporary activity of conservative Christian legal organizations, cases asserting religious liberty – particularly Christian religious liberty — have come to dominate their time.
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Many wore black and carried small branches from the local "peace tree" associated with sorrow during the inter-religious service where they sang religious hymns.
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That means they can select employees according to those religious beliefs, employing them (or not) according to the timeless tenets of their particular religious tradition.
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So religious freedom means compromising the separation of church and state, allowing people to use religion for partisan advantage and politics to build religious power.
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Yes, atheists are one of the most disliked "religious" groups in the nation, and yes, they tend to be stingier givers than their religious counterparts.
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The religious freedom law says that government requirements placing a substantial burden on religious practices are subject to an exceptionally demanding standard of judicial scrutiny.
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India allows religious institutions to govern matters such as marriage, divorce and property inheritance through civil codes designed to protect the independence of religious communities.
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Yet historically, even those who were agnostic, argues Ivan Krastev, chairman of the Center for Liberal Strategies, came from religious backgrounds and asked religious questions.
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Is there anything wrong with a religious doctor asking all of her patients, "May I include you in my prayers," without knowing their religious beliefs?
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The familiar explanation is that this religiosity gap arose because religious Americans shifted into the Republican Party while less religious and secular Americans became Democrats.
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" Smith hopes to avoid this difficulty by focusing less on subjective religious belief and more on public religious practices, which are "more or less objective.
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Their refusal to clearly codify the religious neutrality of the state into law sends the message that the state must submit to all religious doctrines.
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Today, according to the Pew Religious Landscape Study, immigrants remain a vital part of many religious groups' composition — even some groups you might not expect.
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Among the 350 families he studied, no religious group was more effective in passing on their religious identity and beliefs to their children than Mormons.
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In the Orthodox countries like Russia, Bulgaria and Romania, there has been an upsurge of religious identity, but levels of religious practice are comparatively low.
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I want to be careful here because obviously people can derive a sense of meaning and purpose from their religious beliefs and their religious commitments.
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At various times, Turkey has splintered along religious, ideological and ethnic lines and seen further divisions within those religious, ideological and ethnic formations as well.
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In Pacific Lutheran, the board had said it has jurisdiction over religious schools with respect to faculty who do not have an explicitly religious role.
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Muslims, among the most diverse religious community in America, still seem to exist in two bland flavors: the angry progressive or the angry religious fundamentalist.
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Many of those religious leaders had hoped for more from Mr. Trump after a draft of a religious liberty executive order surfaced in early February.
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From the outside, here was a religious Jewish family and a religious Muslim family who hardly spoke English hugging in a park like old friends.
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Although Reza Shah's intentions were to turn Iran into a modern westernized state, his bans on religious garments alienated and frustrated religious conservatives and traditionalists.
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The religious freedom event included several statements from individuals affected by religious persecution around the world, including Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was imprisoned in Turkey.
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Buttigieg sees the more recent roots of the GOP's hold on religious voters beginning in the 1990s, with the rise of the modern religious right.
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But in the United States most ayahuasca users are seeking a post-religious kind of spiritualism—or, perhaps, pre-religious, a pagan worship of nature.
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Moore's role in high-profile religious liberty disputes and his reputation as a conservative firebrand have made him a household name with Alabama's religious right.
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Under the religious liberty rule, a person receiving social services can request an alternative provider if they disagree with the religious beliefs of an organization.
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Abbott is appealing the ruling, which is the latest to deal with the inclusion of other religious, anti-religious and satirical symbols in public spaces.
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When feasible, a religious organization should assign its employees duties that involve ministerial teaching, or other spiritual qualifications — duties that directly further the religious mission.
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Minton had experienced what's known as "religious refusal," a growing — and divisive — phenomenon in which health care is denied on the basis of religious beliefs.
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Another study found that in European countries, compulsory schooling reduced religious expression even in countries with religious curriculum in public schools, like the United Kingdom.
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