"Walt Disney Parks and Resorts US Inc is an employer of choice that is committed to diversity and prohibits discrimination based upon religion," they wrote.
The current conflict in that country is often branded sectarian too - yet despite the statements of some of the belligerent ideologists many Syrians refuse to accept the characterisation of it as a war based upon religion.
While most Jewish and Muslim males are circumcised, true circumcision rates are unknown and circumcision rates based upon religion are only an approximation.
Speaking on Fox News on Tuesday, Michael Chertoff, who was the Secretary of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush Administration, described Trump's ideas about preventing terrorism as "preposterous," adding, "The idea that you can identify people who are a risk based upon their religion or the way they look is completely fallacious.
America already has defined several such protected classes -- the most well-known of which came into being with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which banned discrimination based upon race, religion, skin color, sex, and national origin.
Romney added that he should neither be elected nor rejected based upon his religion, and echoed Senator John F. Kennedy's famous speech during his 1960 presidential campaign in saying, "I will put no doctrine of any church above the plain duties of the office and the sovereign authority of the law".
His distinction between magic and religion (magic as an attempt to control events by technical acts based upon faulty reasoning, religion as an appeal for help to spiritual beings) has been basically assumed in much anthropological writing since his time.
Medical thought had reached this stage and had partially discarded the conceptions based upon magic and religion by 460 bce, the year that Hippocrates is said to have been born.
"The attack upon Mr. Khalsa based upon his perceived religion and identity is an attack upon us all," said Contra Costa County Deputy District Attorney, Simon O'Connell, in a statement.
Based on our country's reactions to previous acts of terrorism, such as the Antiterrorism Act passed in response to the Oklahoma City bombing, we worried government might sweep too broadly, targeting the innocent along with the guilty based upon their race, religion, immigration status, and political views.
The legal concept of a "hostile work environment" comes from judicial decisions interpreting the language of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibiting discrimination based upon race, color, religion, sex, and national origin in the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment.
