Sentence examples for freedom protection from inspiring English sources

The legislation was titled "The Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act," and Bishop Paprocki said he was given the impression that it would not affect state contracts for Catholic Charities and other religious social services.

Rights focus on a freedom, protection, status, or benefit for the rightholders (Beitz 2009).

Having introduced the benign sounding - bland even - Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Indiana's Governor Mike Pence has found himself under sustained and ferocious attack - because it seemed as though this bill was a licence for the businesses and organisations of Indiana to be able to say to people: "You're gay, and with my new religious freedom protection, I am not going to serve you".

Last month, lawmakers approved SB1716, the "Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act".

Would it be Marco Rubio in the Conservatory with the knife-edged Religious Freedom Protection Act?

Thankfully, in states where Democrats opposed these "religious freedom" protection bills, and there was national media attention, they failed.

The committee's vigorous campaign to have the Beachy case dismissed, based on the First Amendment's religious freedom protections and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, won wide support.

In a joint letter, the groups said the analysis in the memorandum, which was issued in 2007 by the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, was "far-fetched" and "erroneous" and said it "threatens core civil rights and religious freedom protections".

Tracey Stewart, the Assistant Regional Director of Arizona's Anti-Defamation League, argues that "Arizona already provides it citizens, houses of worship and other religious institutions with some of the nation's strongest religious freedom protections from government intrusions and burdens".

What makes this most ironic, and most destructive, is that this function is the exact antithesis of what media figures claim they perform and what pioneers of press freedom protections envisioned.

"The bill essentially nullifies federal and state religious freedom protections by handing authority to the U.S. Department of Justice to interpret and investigate claims of discrimination," a columnist for the Federalist, a conservative publication, wrote.