But there will be cases where religious liberty will trump, and same-sex couples will have to accept the reality that not everyone accepts their relationships as legitimate.
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.
She has been the key vote in a number of notable cases, including a 1995 case limiting affirmative action, a 2002 decision permitting public aid and vouchers to religious and parochial schools, and in several abortion-related cases, where a woman's reproductive rights were narrowly reaffirmed.
Such celebrations of secular glory might seem incongruous inside a church, even in cases where the celebrated were conventionally religious.
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And in the West, from the start, many religious authorities were hostile to science in too many cases to count (down to the present day).
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And when these folks saw someone who was hurt and in need of their assistance, does anyone imagine that these fine people first asked the injured what their political or religious preferences were before lending what, in many cases, was a life-saving hand?
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In the context of hyper-religious traditional Mexican society, the authors say, the cases of the dead women were rarely investigated.
Domestic violence cases in Lebanon are typically heard in the religious courts, which often respond with rulings focused on preserving the family unit, rather protecting women from violence.
The trend in these and other cases is to reduce the room for large-scale religious exceptionalism.
In other cases, self-immolation has been more clearly linked to religious belief.
In the cases involving business owners, judges have granted temporary injunctions to businesses in nine of 14 cases they've heard, while questions about for-profit employers and religious rights are decided, according to a tally by the Becket Fund.
In some cases, Warde says, Middle Eastern governments have embraced Islamic banking to advertise their religious chops.
Later in the debate, Mr Straw rejected a Conservative call to prevent courts trying cases involving churches from making any judgement overriding Article Nine of the Convention, which protects religious freedom.
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