Moreover, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows religious objectors opposed to joining a union to direct all money they would normally pay in union dues or agency fees to a non-religious charity of their choice.
Or it is a religious act, say others: to which the answer is, yes, you may believe that, but if so it is no business of the state to impose a religious choice.
"There are lots of forbidden acts at the Western Wall: Do not spit on the wall, do not pee on the wall, no slaughtering of animals at the wall, and among those one cannot perform a religious act contrary to local customs at the wall, which pretty much only applies to women because there are no local customs men are forbidden from taking part in, " Hoffman said.
The birth-control mandate also fails the Religious Freedom Restoration Act's "compelling governmental interest" and "least restrictive means" tests.
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They sued Pentagon officials and officers under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but their claims have been repeatedly rejected.
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We contend that the IRS is required by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to respect and accommodate the practice.
By not allowing group prayer, while at the same time allowing other group activities such as board games, the warden was violating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson found.
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At the center of the cases is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the 1993 law that bars the government from imposing a substantial burden on the exercise of religion for anything other than a compelling government interest pursued in the least restrictive way.
"I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths, " she said.
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But America has always been engaged in a delicate balancing act between its secular constitution and the religious instincts of its population.
Some famous preachers act as power brokers as well as religious leaders.
In September 2005 the province's premier, Dalton McGuinty, decided to prohibit all settlement of family matters based on religious principles under the Arbitration Act.
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One needn't have religious motives to talk and act this way.
BRADY-MYEROV: Garvey points out courts have exempted religious organizations from the Civil Rights Act in other matters.
The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, the Quakers and Moravians Act 1833, the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 and the Promissory Oaths Act 1868 have progressively chiselled away the direct religious content of the oath.
Both the American Scholar and ACT have issued press releases quoting biologists, astrophysicists and religious thinkers about the essay.
"That this senseless act of violence should be targeted at a place of religious worship is particularly painful, " Singh, himself a Sikh, said.
That would include amending the 2010 Equality Act to ensure no discrimination claim can be brought against religious organisations or individual ministers for refusing to marry a same-sex couple.
By this act, he was effectively allowing people to pursue unmolested their own religious practices.
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Abed told me that he had become religious after the crash and that the crash was an act of God.
We contend that the practice of religious war tax resistance was given safe harbor in an Act of Congress in 1982 and has been recognized by the courts.
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Welch spent 18 months in Iraq starting in January of last year, and his job was to act as a liaison between the US military and Iraq's religious and tribal leaders, including those in the Sunni triangle.
In the United States both secular and religious arbitration are firmly established, operating under a Federal Arbitration Act that gives robust standing to the procedure but also allows the parties to counter-appeal to ordinary courts on certain grounds (though America's church-state separation stops courts hearing arguments about doctrine).
However, Conservative MPs and religious groups have questioned whether it would stand up to challenges under the Human Rights Act.
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