Sentence examples for religious coercion from inspiring English sources

Safeguards against religious coercion and diversion of public funds for sectarian purposes could be altered and serve the same goal.

He was known for his role in efforts to slow secularization in Israel, leading battles for legislation to enforce strict Jewish laws that prompted critics to accuse him of religious coercion.

Nevertheless, its power was very limited, and, arguably, it was important chiefly because it established a tradition of religious coercion in the late medieval Western church that was inherited by both Catholics and Protestants in the 16th century.

But to a range of groups, from national school organizations to civil libertarians, the Good News Club is a chipper moniker for what is essentially religious coercion of young children.

Vulnerable children and others who get federally subsidized food, job assistance, after-hours school activities and the like need to receive the aid in an atmosphere entirely free of anything that could be experienced as religious coercion.

If you substituted airplanes and plastic explosives for horses and swords, you would have a more or less accurate picture of the world of interminable desert warfare and religious coercion that bin Laden is willing to die to recreate.

A spokesman for the mayor responded: "At no point did religious authority figures use spiritual coercion to procure votes.

Herein lies for Mendelssohn the basic difference between state and church: civil society has, as the product of a social contract, the right to coercion, religious society has no such right.

In fact, Mr. McConnell is a fierce opponent of any government action that involves coercion of individual religious expression or belief.

If this account is correct, state coercion must be justifiable to religious citizens as religious believers and when it is not, then state coercion lacks moral legitimacy.

By Friday evening, however, Mr Dolan and his colleagues had revised their opinion: "…today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions".On first glance, it seems that Mr Obama's accommodation had little effect.