Sentence examples for religious stances from inspiring English sources

As our electoral process has begun to accelerate, questions about religious affiliation and calls for candidates to sign pledges supporting religious stances are in the news.

In addition, as a Catholic, I feel it is my prerogative to announce that Jesus is the answer to mankind's happiness and that the Ten Commandments make sense on a human level, even apart from religious stances.

This targeting concentrated on stirring up patriotic and sometimes nationalist sentiment with anti-Clinton, gun rights, anti-immigrant and religious stances.

Despite Thomas Jefferson's decry to separate church and state in 1802, political leaders today take religious stances and promote religious ideologies in their campaigns.

He was appointed Bishop of Chiapas, but served only for a short time before he was forced to return to Spain because of resistance to the New Laws by the encomenderos, and conflicts with Spanish settlers because of his pro-Indian policies and activist religious stances.

But it's not a word that accurately describes his religious stance, which is overwhelmingly traditional and conservative.

"Proposition 8 was a religious stance on my part, in support of traditional marriages," Mr. Hamilton said.

In 1940, Miss Anscombe converted to Catholicism, and many of her writings reflected her moral and religious stance.

He also has the support of many liberals for his moderate religious stance and his insistence on equal rights for all citizens, regardless of religion or gender.

ʿAlī's offers became even more attractive with his subsequent adoption of a Khārijite religious stance: anyone, even a black slave, could be elected caliph, and all non-Khārijites were infidels threatened by a holy war.

But if you begin by distinguishing between the core religious stance of awe before the wonders of the world and the innumerable ways of striking that stance, the state can be seen as honoring the religious impulse — defined broadly and not tied narrowly to specific observances — even when it declines to honor one of its nonessential instantiations.