Either way, America's vigorous religious life rests on the premise that even when we are offended, we will let others be.
Protecting Religious Freedom, LGBT Equality and Reproductive Rights The President should commit to continuing his administration's support for vigorous religious freedom advocacy on the federal, state and local levels, including opposing organized prayer.
But the overriding point is that a university has the right to determine that its mission is well served by having students engage in vigorous philosophic, religious, scientific, social and political discussion in their extracurricular activities.
These sorts of moderating influences disappeared with the disestablishment of religion, and as a result it was almost as if the lid was taken off an already vigorous American religious scene.
When Donaldo tries to rile Chester into finally opening his church, the play grinds to a halt as Mr. Shanley's fondness for vigorous moral and religious debate swamps the stage.
Jealous of its pretensions as guardians of Islam, the ruling family has often shied from vigorous pursuit of religious militants, despite a string of violent incidents inside the kingdom that has claimed more than 30 victims, mostly foreigners, since 1995.
Under pressure from legislators and a vigorous campaign by religious and civil rights groups to legalize same-sex marriage in New Mexico, the state's attorney general, Gary King, cautioned city clerks on Thursday against issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples — but at the same time invited litigation, saying that the state's statute was "vulnerable to challenge".
On this front, it is most encouraging that Judge Alito's record shows support for a vigorous protection of personal religious liberty.
His pro-British sympathies in the South African (Boer) War and his vigorous opposition to government-imposed religious restrictions on Jews and Roman Catholics provoked Pres.
Religious parties staged vigorous demonstrations of thousands of people across the country last weekend to protest the campaign by Mr. Taseer, even burning him in effigy.
In other words, those horrible attacks might indirectly provoke a vigorous, influential, Islamic voice opposing religious and ethnic bigotry in the world.
