Sentence examples for offensive to religious from inspiring English sources

His use is therefore legal, albeit potentially offensive to religious conservatives.

I'd call it offensive to religious people, but it's too inept to even pull that off.

"If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists.

"The accusation that the R. H. law is offensive to religious freedom is a patent aberration," he said.

Last year, an opera director in Novosibirsk was put on trial after investigators said his staging of Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser was offensive to religious sensibilities.

During the earlier "Caution, Religion!" scandal and trial, Kirill, who was then chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of External Church Relations, spoke out against contemporary art that he said was offensive to religious sensibilities.

"The choice of such artwork is gratuitously offensive to the religious beliefs of many Australians," Prime Minister John Howard told The Daily Telegraph.

When Ms Zypries defended restricting free speech, she went on to say that "the limits are there when it is offensive to other religious and ethnic groups".

Newspaper polls taken soon after the movie opened showed that around 70percentt of those who had gone to see it did not consider it offensive to their religious beliefs.

Mr. Rushdie's cancellation is the latest in a series of blows to free speech in India that have included a court challenge to Google and Facebook for what a petitioner claimed was content that is offensive to various religious groups, and a proposal by a senior Indian minister to prescreen content posted on social networking sites.

The ASA cracked down on that campaign after Christians complained the ads were offensive to their religious views.