The amendment also included protections for "any employee thereof being managed, directed or supervised by or in conjunction with a religious corporation, benevolent order or a not-for-profit corporation".
The amendment that was passed stated that barring access to same-sex ceremonies, or failing to provide services for them, would not "result in any state or local government action to penalize, withhold benefits, or discriminate against such religious corporation, benevolent order, a not-for-profit corporation operated, supervised or controlled by a religious corporation".
It does not protect religious or benevolent orders from challenges to tax exempt status.
These views correspond with Pargament and colleagues who refer to benevolent religious reappraisals as an attempt to redefine a stressor as having spiritual benefit and an opportunity to grow spiritually [ 34].
The legislation already includes language that exempts broad classes of religious institutions and private benevolent organizations from hosting or recognizing gay ceremonies, while indemnifying such institutions from lawsuits.
The text of the marriage bill provides in section 10-b-2: "a refusal by a benevolent organization or a religious corporation, incorporated under the education law or the religious corporations law, to provide accommodations, advantages, facilities or privileges in connection with section ten-a of this article shall not create a civil claim or cause of action".
The snake, for example, representations of which adorn religious and royal buildings, symbolizes the benevolent spirit of the water and the protector of the king.
It's a CGI missionary drive; the television equivalent of a religious pamphlet thrust on you by a benevolent creep, but with lower production values.
In Thomas Picken's black-and-white lithograph "Abolition of Slavery in Jamaica" (1838), the event is depicted, the curators note in the catalog, as "a providential act of a benevolent empire, aided by nonconformist religious sects".
Americans were deeply religious, and they struggled to understand how a benevolent God could allow such destruction to go on for so long.
