Sentence examples for secular business from inspiring English sources

Even if religion inspires us, he suggests, ethics is a secular business.

"As a secular business we have an inclusive policy that welcomes all religious beliefs, whether across our customer or employee base.

Though he had a chance to work in the secular business, Shea instead chose to move to Chicago, where he built his popularity at radio station WMBI and later on ABC radio's Club Time.

All Vatican departments, for the first time in their history, have been told they must produce quarterly reports comparing actual spending with budgeted expenditure – standard practice in the secular business world.

But how far should the right of corporations involved in secular business extend when their owners have deeply held beliefs?

The council limited relations between monks and laymen and ruled that secular activities were impermissible for monks: secular business and secular songs were both forbidden, especially "ludicrous songs".

The administration refused to grant an exemption or accommodation to secular businesses owned by people who said they objected to contraceptive coverage on religious grounds.

The question in the Hobby Lobby case is whether secular businesses can claim exemptions from laws by citing the religious beliefs of their owners.

Religious groups dissatisfied with the new proposal want a broader, more explicit exemption for religious organizations and protection for secular businesses owned by people with religious objections to contraceptive coverage.

Moreover, the Obama administration said, providing a religious exemption to companies like Weingartz Supply and Hercules would allow the owners of secular businesses to impose their religious beliefs on their employees, many of whom may not share the owners' convictions.

But the White House refused to extend the exemption to secular businesses whose owners have religious objections to contraception, such as the craft chain Hobby Lobby.