Sentence examples for religious protection from inspiring English sources

The reason the various states' "so-called religious protection measures" are so called is that they protect religion.

As a result, nine states, including Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Rhode Island and Texas, have enacted so-called religious protection measures.

Mr. Lorence also argued that a widely noted Supreme Court decision in a different case last month opened broad new areas of religious protection.

In six other states -- Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Washington and Wisconsin -- each state supreme court has issued rulings with the same effect as a religious protection law.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision, seven states -- Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Texas -- have passed their own religious protection laws, said Kevin Hasson, executive director of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty in Washington.

Despite the reference to religious protection included in the ordinance, some of its opponents portrayed the vote as a battle for religious liberty, evoking memories of clashes over so-called "religious freedom" laws in Indiana and Arkansas last spring and in Arizona last year.

It modified the House version by expanding religious protections for those who do not approve of same-sex marriage, and then passed it last week.

Mr. Chafee told reporters on Wednesday that he would probably sign the bill even though he thought the religious protections were overly broad.

Mr. Sullivan said his group had planned to remain neutral on the bill but came out against it after the "draconian" religious protections were added.

"I don't think that it matters whether they call themselves individuals or companies," he said while discussing who qualifies for religious protections.

In an opinion article in USA Today in 1987, Mr. Skolrood argued that civil libertarians and the courts had used the First Amendment's religious protections "like a pitchfork" to poke the life out of permissible public religious expression.