But the king, who has said that allowing women to drive is a social, not a religious, issue, has so far not moved to lift the ban.
And that's what we did, because he felt it very important that people understand that he took the religious liberty issue very seriously, as he expressed here from the podium.
Throw religious affiliations and single issue politics into the mix, and the complexity of the equation intensifies.
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In Canada legislation framed with secular arbitration in mind but used by religious courts is a hotter issue than in Britain.
They envisioned a more centrist approach to abortion and a more deeply examined stance on stem cell research, which is as much an ethical issue as a religious one.
The BBC's Afghanistan correspondent, Kate Clark, says that the behaviour of the Taleban's religious police is also an issue as they have recently arrested several Afghans working for the UN and raided two NGO clinics and a hospital.
The critics framed the issue as one of religious liberty, while Democrats responded that critics were attacking women's rights involving heath care choices.
Religious bodies believe as a moral issue that it is no longer your own body but a body you are now sharing with another person.
The McCain campaign says it sends a weekly e-mail to about 600 influential religious conservatives with action alerts and issue updates, and hosts a weekly conference call.
With one of the government's main stated objectives being to advance Turkey's EU membership bid, both the AKP and MHP presented the proposed easing of the headscarf ban as an issue of civil and religious freedom.
The issue also raises ethical and religious, as well as medical questions, the scientists said.
Conservative religious groups are increasingly concerned about the issue.
The Yemeni government is holding legal and religious workshops to try to deal with the issue of early marriage.
There are several dozen lawsuits on the issue across the country, brought by religious groups, charities and for-profit employers.
The religious right is also divided over a more immediate issue: whether to rally behind Mr Bauer or Steve Forbes.
Today the issue of global warming has indeed reached religious proportions.
School counselors, health care providers and religious organization leaders should all be aware of the issue so they can better direct their support, Raezer said.
The parties that campaign for the "green vote" in Tunisia, Libya, or Egypt have different positions on the defining issue of Islamism - whether to govern by religious law or allow different authorities, notably civil courts, to continue.
Obama's rationale, that "our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable, " seems utterly irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be constructed at Ground Zero.
Willie Zingani, the presidential spokesman, said it was unfortunate that the issue is coming up now since the idea to introduce Religious and Moral Studies in secondary schools was mooted back in 1981, 15 years before Mr Muluzi assumed power.
The Bishop of Leicester, the right reverend Tim Stevens, warned the issue was creating a division between the political classes and practising religious people.
Religious representatives are due to make submissions to an Irish parliament hearing on the issue of abortion later.
No single factor explains the movement's shift to the goal of marriage equality, but much of the credit must go to the very religious conservatives who assiduously campaigned against same-sex marriage, thus forcing the issue onto the front burner of American politics.
The issue, they say, is not one of civil rights but of religious freedom.
When it comes to welfare reform, questions of religious faith, political theory, economics and behavioural psychology all converge on the same basic issue.
So on Sunday, in front of a religious crowd, both candidates worked their way carefully through the rhetorical minefield that still surrounds the issue.
And with a new crime against religious hate expected to reach the Statute Book before the general election, this is not an issue that will go away quietly.
"The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic, or educational organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting to determine how to address the issue, " he said.
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