Sentence examples for free exercise right from inspiring English sources

If a religious believer can claim a free exercise right not to answer questions about his religious institution, including who leads it, government attempts to investigate wrongdoing by religious sects or institutions could be completely stymied.

The confusion exhibited by the Supreme Court in its questioning of the Hobby lobby Corporation, a for-profit hobby kit maker, more than illustrates the overstated nature of attempting to articulate a corporate free exercise right.

As a threshold matter, RFRA offers protection only to those entities with free exercise rights.

For that reason, this Court has declined to cabin free exercise rights to any particular activity.

Can corporations claim the free exercise rights of their owners, i.e., as one judge put it, can owners "have their corporate veil and pierce it too"?

Gans said: "The critical question is: will they court say for the first time in 225 years that corporations have free exercise rights?

"Entirely absent from that pre-Smith jurisprudence is any case affording free exercise rights to for-profit corporations," says the administration.

Citizens United tells us that "corporations are people, my friend". So if that analysis applies to both the First Amendment's free speech rights and free exercise rights, then corporations can at least pass go.

PRPCP's memorandum, "Religion, Discrimination, and Government Funding Enforcing Civil Rights Law After Masterpiece Cakeshopp and Trinity Lutheran," is designed to provide guidance to state and local governments on the proper balance between civil rights enforcement and constitutional free exercise rights.

In June, a federal court in Oklahoma ruled in Hobby Lobby's favor, saying that corporations have free exercise rights, and that the contraceptive coverage mandate substantially burdened those rights without a compelling governmental interest.

In Yoder, members of an Amish community challenged a Wisconsin state law that required their children to attend school until the age of 16, arguing that their free exercise rights should include the right to pull their children out of school at 14.