RALEIGH, N.C.-- A measure allowing some court officials to refuse to performgay marriageresponsibilities because of their religious beliefs became law in North Carolina on Thursday, with the state House voting to override the governor's veto of the bill.The Senate had voted to do the same wi...
one religion or group of religious organizations from dominating the government or imposing its will or beliefs on society as a whole. The revolutionary philosophy encompassed the principle that the interests of society are best served if individuals are free to form their own opinions and beliefs....
According to the Public Religion Research Institute’sAmerican Values Survey, which provides insight into the beliefs of most of the nation’s faith groups, nearly three in four Americans (74%) say things in this country are going in the wrong direction, and 49% say things were better in th...
In granting summary judgment to the Bank, the judge correctly noted that (1) a finding of sincerity does not require perfect adherence to the religious beliefs expressed; (2) even the most sincere practitioner of a religion may stray from its practices from time to time without their beliefs’...
‘conversion ideology’ as overt spoken beliefs/teachings, and the underlying culture of a particular community of people that sees LGBTQA + identity as somehow ‘broken’ or ‘sinful’, and in need of ‘fixing’ or suppression to achieve heterosexual reproductive marriage and gender normativity...
AlthoughSmithspeculated that the political process would be "solicitous" of accommodation requests, it minced no words as to its view of such requests. It called them a "luxury" capable of "courting anarchy," and especially "danger[ous]" given American "society's diversity of religious beliefs...
The Second Panel of the Supreme Court established that the right to religious freedom is, to a large extent, the right to existence of a multiplicity of religious beliefs/disbeliefs, which bind and harmonize—for the survival of all the constitutionally protected multiplicity of faiths—in the ...
If there is, how should we decide which set (or sets) of beliefs merit such support? Certainly there is no objective way of distinguishing a true religion from a false one, or a true sect from a false one. By all objective tests Christianity fails to distinguish itself from other mainstre...
First, “religion” is not limited to the “big three” of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. It also includes generally recognized belief systems that are less common in the United States, and also “individualized” beliefs that are not part of any generally recognized system. ...
2 Her refusal to say any of these words or phrases stemmed from her religious beliefs.3 After the instructors tried to convince Axson-Flynn to say one of these words during the audition, Axson-Flynn stated, "I would rather not be admitted to your program than use these words."4Despite ...