Word: secularization
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...universal. The ruling's logic - essentially creating the legal concept of chastity fraud - was widely seen as an attack on women's rights that undermined decades of progress on sexual attitudes. The lower court's ruling seemed as well to have put Muslim religious concerns above France's strictly secular laws. But for the woman whose public repudiation sparked the controversy, Dati's decision means something else: the prolongation of a humiliating process to get her out of an unwanted marriage...
...Although Bruner, who described himself as a secular Jew, said he felt that Memorial Church should be open to non-Protestant services, others thought that opening the church would damage the sanctity of religion...
...Bruner, now a fellow at New York University’s School of Law, maintains the claims he made in letters and speeches from 1958 in favor of a “secular university...
...covering and writing about the former Prime Minister since 1984, when Blair was a young Labour member of the House of Commons. He has long been fascinated by the fact that Blair was known to be religious, something Mike says is rare in what he calls Britain's "aggressively secular society." Mike grew up in an intensely religious family in the suburbs of Liverpool--his father was on the national council of the Baptist church--and he says, "I think that probably gave me some sympathy for the way in which Blair has very openly wrestled with the role...
...which would be fine if Blair were, say, a U.S. politician-and so expected to profess his faith even if he didn't have much of one. But, at least in its public aspect, Britain is one of the most aggressively secular societies on the planet. Though Blair went to lengths not to make a big deal of his faith when in office ("We don't do God," Campbell once said, though he now insists he did so only to get rid of a journalist who had overrun his allotted time), that did not stop the British from making...