Word: secularization
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...religion and ensures that no religion is sanctioned or favored by the government. Bush’s order, however, essentially exempts religious groups from federal civil rights laws and non-discrimination policies. Giving religious groups a blank check to discriminate in hiring practices at the same time that secular groups are prohibited from doing so sets a policy of bias in favor of religious groups—a clear violation of the separation of church and state...
...fewer religious entitlements than do the laity who repent immoral acts that happen to be criminal. Ordinarily, any ordained Catholic would be defrocked for breaking the seal of confession, a sacrament of the church. And Law could not have been expected by any faithful Catholic to turn over to secular authorities seemingly penitent parishioners of any sort without violating church doctrine...
...longer seems morally-guided and interested only in following Catholic theology. He has exercised extreme pragmatism in some cases, including entangling himself in financial matters—the most secular of all things. In the past week, he has given the archdiocese permission to proceed with Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings. In Rome, he is currently discussing this prospect. Yet, the total damages from the settlements in the abuse scandal equate to 10 percent of the Boston Archdioceses’ assets. Though much of these assets are tied into property, which may be difficult to liquidate, there is quite simply...
...passion for his religion even landed him a position on the board of Harvard’s Secular Society. “I wanted the title of chaplain, but they already had a chaplain. So they gave me the title of resident sage,” he says. Halvorson also counts among his accomplishments his role in helping the Harvard Republican Club become the most active campus Republican organization in the country...
...Christian homophobia lie in ancient Levitical laws, the applicability of which to modern society is clearly dubious. There are simply too many other parts of the Bible that Christians no longer believe for us to be able to pretend that contemporary Christian anti-homosexuality is not inspired by secular homophobia...