Sentence examples for religious premises from inspiring English sources

At one level they derive from explicit religious premises.

The coalition backs the plans for religious premises, ministers say.

He has been central in the push to allow religious premises to hold civil partnerships.

Originally, they were not allowed to happen on religious premises, but since December 2011 that ban has been lifted.

An amendment in April removed a legal prohibition on holding civil-partnership ceremonies on religious premises; the government is pondering how to implement it.

But once same-sex marriages are permitted, and on religious premises at that, some fear that churches, mosques and temples could be forced into solemnising relationships of which they disapprove profoundly.

It's getting hung onto a religious premise, and there is a slippery slope when you start moving away from science.

Reviewing the history of secularization in the West since the Renaissance, Bonhoeffer asked whether humanity's increasing ability to cope with its problems without the hypothesis of God might not indicate the obsolescence of the "religious premise" upon which Christianity had hitherto been based.

"Whereas religious systems premise themselves on relationships between man and deity".

But is there anything wrong with so frankly religious a premise?

Those decisions, Meek v. Pittenger and Wolman v. Walter, held that the government could provide textbooks but not other instructional materials to religious schools, the premise being that textbooks could be vetted in advance to make sure they did not advance the schools' religious mission.