Americans may be holding tenaciously to a strict view of personal morality, but they say that they do not want to impose their views on others (abortion seems to be the big exception).The fact that there was a substantial religious-moral vote is not by itself evidence of a political breakthrough by religious conservatives.
The goal was to engage about the cultural, religious and societal implications of breakthrough technologies that improve human health, prevent disease and protect the environment.
IF YOU only skim-read the headlines of last weekend's newspapers, you might have got the impression that Pope Francis made a remarkable breakthrough in inter-religious relations in Turkey last week, by praying with his Muslim hosts in a mosque and jointly celebrating a communion service with the senior bishop of the Orthodox Christian church.
There is no question that many scientific breakthroughs raise ethical and religious questions.
But Mr. Lynn said its significance lay in the court's rejection of "the effort by religious conservatives to use this as a breakthrough case for their theory of free exercise, that if you fund the secular you must fund the religious".
I saw Kittie live at Ozzfest 2000 in Sacramento, and it was such pivotal moment for me in my breakthrough with anxiety and battles with religious guilt.
As science incessantly achieves innovative and unexpected breakthroughs, new medical, political, ethical and religious debates arise over the production and consumption of transgenic organisms.
"The breakthrough is that it's a major religious group that says unequivocally it will support its rabbis if they participate in these ceremonies," said Rabbi Paul Menitoff, the conference's executive vice president.
Pressure religious hospitals to perform abortions or sex-reassignment surgery (or some eugenic breakthrough, down the road), and you'll eventually get fewer religious hospitals — and probably less charity care and a more zealous focus on the bottom line.
In 1989, these trusted religious practitioners began exploring their potential role in children's healthcare at a breakthrough UNICEF-led workshop.
