One proposed change would broaden the types of religious groups that are exempt from the bill, and another would make sure religious institutions are not subject to retaliation by the government if they refuse to employ people otherwise covered under the bill.
Any change in the New York law can, and must, balance equality while making sure that religious institutions remain free to choose whether to marry same-sex couples.
Insisting that pervasively religious institutions make do with voluntary support is in no way to be hostile toward them.
Introducing Trump on Saturday, Falwell praised the president for an executive order this month that would make it easier for religious institutions to get involved in politics without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status.
Mrs. Santorum was referring to failed legislation her husband supported, known as the Blunt Amendment, which would have have made it legal for religious institutions, including Catholic schools and hospitals, to deny insurance coverage to their employees for birth control on moral grounds.
The choice movement has ranged from the narrow embrace of public charter schools to an approach favored by conservatives that would take tax money and increasingly make it available to religious institutions.
Nichols's attack comes soon after the Church of England and the Church of Wales claimed they had not been informed of or properly consulted over the government's plans to make them the only religious institutions in the country who would be barred from carrying out same-sex wedding ceremonies.
But the thing is, I think it's important to make the distinction between religious institutions and the faith itself.
While the Internal Revenue Code makes an exemption for churches and other religious institutions, it makes only special tax codes and deductions, not exceptions, for religious professionals.
His criticism of the Sophists and of Athenian political and religious institutions made him many enemies, and his position was burlesqued by Aristophanes.
