Adults and emancipated minors have the right to refuse medical treatment. Some states go further and grant religious healing parents a statutory exemption against criminal and civil actions for child endangerment, neglect, negligence, manslaughter, and even homicide. This Article identifies these types ...
extend equally to the non-religious, it is discriminating against those that choose not to follow a religion, something that the 'Founding Fathers" failed to recognize. It's time to throw this religious exemption out because it now discriminates against those that choose to practice no religion...
In fact, there is a less restrictive method in the form of the Department of Health and Human Services exemption for non-profit religious organizations, which the Court considered possible and mandatory to be applied to for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby. Furthermore, the Court held ...
There are actually no US rules that I can find on what makes a religion "recognized", just rules for tax exemption. According to what I read in the article, apparently this "religion" is tax exempt. It really doesn't take much to qualify....
Indiana– Religious Exemption in State and Local Contracts (S.B. 127) Virginia– prevent any public entity from requiring its contractors to abide by non-discrimination policies that are more inclusive than the state law (H.B. 1409) 3. Exemption for Religious Student Groups in Public Schools ...
(ganja) is essential to their religion, yet no exemption is made for them. Similarly, in the USA members of the Native American Church are prevented from using traditional psychotropic drugs. The fact is that wherever we draw the line some religions will feel aggrieved. Christians in the USA...
Given the inescapable presence posed by this current pandemic in our mobile and wired world, the dream of a tranquil refuge seems remote and perhaps unjust. Though some may claim exemption by virtue of wealth or privilege, we’re all in this together. The heroic dedication of health care work...
the prerogative is the exemption from every form of outside control and subordination. One of the most important elements of freedom is the freedom of religious minorities to profess their religions. Restricting them or abandoning them makes them suffer from inferiority complexes, which creates life ...
Finally, the analysis considers the lessons that discussions involving "harm to children" in Fulton offer for the direction of future empirical research that informs the debate over conflicts between religious exemption claims and LGBTQ antidiscrimination laws in child welfare....
Second, an examination of the factors that must be considered when determining whether an interference with a human right can be justified, reveals that the exemption granted to religious schools under the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act represents not only an unreasonable limitation on the right to ...