This distinction became a point of contention in 2015, when an international group of male religious superiors elected a religious brother to be one of their 10 representatives to the bishops' synod.
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Seeing those religious and elected leaders stand up for my own community reassured me that the American values that have enabled American Jews to flourish in this country will continue to be a source of strength for all Americans.
Team members most fully understand the medical facts of the case and have a great deal of authority and social credibility in Western culture: Indeed, polling shows that Americans trust members of the medical sciences to act in the public interest more than religious leaders, elected officials or business leaders.
In these traditional societies, particularly in rural areas, community voices included the community elders, religious leaders, elected councils, women's associations, traditional doctors, and local criers.
Some of the best examples are films like God's Neighbors, which won an award at last year's Cannes film festival and tells the story of a group of friends who joined the Israeli trend of becoming more religious and elect themselves the neighborhood watch for modesty.
Lawyers for Davis had argued in court papers that if she couldn't be accommodated based on her religious objections, "then elected officials have no real religious freedom when they take public office".
Rifts between Iraq's two main religious groups have deepened considerably since January, when Shiite religious parties were elected to head the government, leaving Sunnis with a minor role.
The Golden State, even more than the South, created today's religious conservatism; it elected Ronald Reagan governor; it's where the tax revolt of the 1970s began.
This represents the failure of Christian political leadership — not only from the speaker but from most other elected religious conservatives, too.
