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| | Freedom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Political freedom is the absence of political restraints, particularly with respect to speech, religious practice, and the press. | | | Freedom of speech is similar to freedom of information, but refers to a general lack of such restrictions (on the creation, use, modification and dissemination of ideas) in a society by the government or those that hold power in that society. | | | Statue of Liberty- Political freedom is one of the meanings of "freedom". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom
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| | Center for Religious Freedom |
| | Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom today called on the U.S. State Department to take action toward Saudi Arabia, as mandated under the International Religious Freedom Act, following reports that Saudi Arabia sentenced a teacher to be flogged and jailed for discussing the Bible and praising Jews in his classroom. | | | Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom released today a new report exposing the dissemination of hate propaganda in America by the government of Saudi Arabia. | | | Freedom House’s Center for Religious Freedom today released photographs appearing to confirm brutal treatment of Christian minorities by government forces in Vietnam. |
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http://www.freedomhouse.org/religion
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| | Today Marks Religious Freedom Day 2006 Christianpost.com- Christian News Online , Christian World News |
| | Beyond the civil rights and freedoms within the nation, however, Bush extends the need to advance religious freedom abroad to work against religious persecution around the world. | | | In 1786, Jefferson drafted the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, protecting the civil rights of people to express their religious beliefs without suffering discrimination. | | | Despite ongoing persecution, Middle East countries including Iraq, which recently completed its landmark government elections, have been noted for their human rights and religious freedom progress. |
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http://www.christianpost.com/article/society/2188/section/today.marks.religious.freedom.day.2006/1.htm
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| | firstamendmentcenter.org: commentary |
| | According to a survey released last fall by the Council for America’s First Freedom, 84% of us think religious freedom is as important or more important than it was when Jefferson’s bill was enacted. | | | Religious Freedom Day ‘05: unknown holiday for a forgotten freedom | | | By Charles C. Haynes Release of Christian convert from Islam reminds us that protection for religious liberty under a secular constitution is the only way to ensure freedom of conscience. |
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http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=14678
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| | Documents International Religious Liberty Association |
| | The right to religious freedom and the other enunciated human rights may be limited only for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society. | | | The degree to which this can be considered a right in the context of religious freedom is debatable. | | | Extreme vigilance is necessary to ensure that religious bodies are not subject to infringements of their freedom as a result of undue state interference and, conversely, that government is not subjected to undue religious pressures. |
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http://www.irla.org/documents/fel/fel1998/epps.html
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| | Religious Freedom Day |
| | America's reverence for religious freedom and religious tolerance has saved us from much of the hatred and violence that have plagued so many other peoples around the world. | | | The promotion of religious freedom for all peoples must continue to serve as a central element of our foreign policy. | | | I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs, and I urge all Americans to reaffirm their devotion to the fundamental principles of religious freedom and religious tolerance. |
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http://www.uga.edu/bahai/News/011499.html
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| | Statement on Academic Freedom at BYU |
| | The freedom to form religiously distinctive intellectual communities is protected not only by the principle of religious freedom but also by long-established principles of academic freedom. | | | There are at least three reasons why the institutional academic freedom of religious institutions should be protected: to maintain institutional pluralism, to be consistent with the antidogmatic principles of academic freedom, and to safeguard religious freedom. | | | Historically, in fact, freedom of conscience and freedom of intellect form a common root, from which grow both religious and academic freedom. |
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http://www.byu.edu/fc/pages/refmapages/acadfree.html
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| | Catholic World News : The Future Pope Speaks |
| | Religious freedom includes the right of a religious community to set up theological faculties to reflect upon its faith, its quite particular faith, and try to show its reasonability. | | | It is absolute nonsense to say that Vatican II left it up to the individual to decide which religious ideas he would adopt and which he would not. | | | Liberal Catholics contend this includes theological freedom for priests and nuns (for instance, Father Richard McBrien of the University of Notre Dame complains that the “defeated minority at Vatican II and their heirs” have staged a “slow-motion coup” against Vatican II during John Paul II's pontificate, resulting in “silencings, censorship, loyalty oaths” and the like). |
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http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=37855
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| | The California Religious Freedom Protection Act, California State Assemply Bill - AB1617 |
| | Religious Freedom for Native American prisoners in California | | | Democracy and Religious Freedom - from the Pacific Justice Institute. | | | Since the United States Supreme court declared the Federal "Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)" unconstitutional it has become the responsibility of the individual states to pass religious protection law. |
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http://www.thesteward.net/rights/ab1617.html
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| | DRUGS, FREEDOM & HARM |
| | Freedom is simply that sphere in which people are not prevented or forbidden from doing things even when it would be better for them not to do them. | | | The belief that this sphere of individual freedom is absolutely inviolable is generally known as libertarianism. | | | This is because, whatever the moral principles on which a belief in the absolute freedom of the individual is founded, in many contexts absolute freedom, even with respect to personal matters, can lead to socially undesirable consequences. |
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http://www.drugtext.org/library/articles/eight3.html
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| | UNITARIAN TRINITIES: FREEDOM, REASON, TOLERANCE |
| | If the question of freedom is whether UUs can believe anything they want and still be a UU, then this issue is whether we will tolerate, whether we will allow, any belief to be considered as within Unitarian Universalism. | | | He referred to "freedom of belief" as the "right of private judgment," and said this: | | | Freedom, reason, and tolerance are "the conditions under which" we pursue the true ends of religion. |
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http://www.qserve.net/~allsouls/ser20030316.htm
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| | [NPO] Separation of Gun & Pulpit |
| | That is why responsible religious leaders celebrate and support the freedom of and from religious provisions of the First Amendment, and also understand why religious instruction is appropriate in a place of worship and inappropriate in the schools. | | | The idea of churches being tax exempt is, in my view, the trade off for maintaining the religious freedom specified in the First Amendment. | | | He would have been forced into some level of hypocrisy or faced death from religious despots. |
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http://www.rain.org/pipermail/nonprofit/2004-January/002138.html
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| | Freedom of religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Religious toleration by a state is a legal theory founded upon endurance and the absence of that basic freedom, because a religion has been previously established by a state. | | | According to Article 18, " freedom of religion " is related to " freedom of belief ", while " freedom of worship " requires the additional freedom of manifestation or action, individually; in community with others, in public or in private. | | | Prior to 1948 the concept of freedom of religion had never been accepted as a universal right and today many nations, while giving agreement to the theory, have difficulty in implementing this theory into law. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_freedom
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| | Roger Williams was an advocate for religious freedom. | | | This form of religious freedom is so basic that it is taken for granted. | | | Merrimon Cuninggim, in his book Freedom's Holy Light, points out that "We even take for granted that the doors of the rival and similar institution down the street will also be open, and that there will be some who direct their feet to that sanctuary. |
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http://www.mindspring.com/~alisondre/Archives/Talks/2000/1105democracy.html
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| | RLUIPA.org |
| | Do you know a prisoner denied religious freedom? | | | RLUIPA is a federal statute that was passed in 2000 to provide stronger protection for religious freedom in the land-use and prison contexts. | | | Storzer, who gained experience on religious land use cases through his work with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, said that the denial came even though the church was willing to negotiate and compromise. |
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| | Channing Memorial Church - History |
| | A core group of about 30 people met informally on a regular basis in people's homes to discuss who we were, what we thought was needed in a religious community in Howard County and how we could go about serving those needs. | | | James was noted for his excellent sermons and wonderful adult religious education classes, and membership continued to grow during his time with us. | | | Channing Memorial Church was founded to provide a liberal religious atmosphere in which individuals may search for truth and meaning in an environment steeped in the richness of our Unitarian Universalist roots and heritage. |
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http://www.channingmc.org/history.html
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| | About The CyberNation of Freedom - Liberation of the Individual |
| | The second, the 'Issues of Morality', are those which are outside the bounds of the protection of the individual's inalienable rights and the law and order of society, and therefore are the responsibility of each individual to decide according to his or her personal and religious beliefs. | | | The rapid globalization of the world economy, the collapse of the communist Soviet Empire with its bankrupt ideology of oppression toward the individual, and the recent dawning of cyberspace and the Internet, have created a dramatic new environment that is unleashing the individual's desire for freedom. | | | The democratic system of government was established by the people and for the people to guarantee that they would be the defenders of their own inalienable rights. |
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http://www.cybernationoffreedom.com/liberation.html
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| | The Religious Fight Against Freedom |
| | People often mention that our nation was settled by people who came to these shores seeking this religious freedom, to escape religious persecution. | | | And they fought against the freedoms of those who truly did want real religious freedom. | | | Whether freedom to live, freedom to vote, freedom to work, freedom to have control over your own body, freedom to marry who you want
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| | Mirza Ahmad Sohrab's Broken Silence The Story of Today's Struggle for Religious Freedom. New York: Universal Publishing, 1942. |
| | This attitude of religious liberalism and freedom of conscience; this *idealization* of the *liberty of thought and right of speech*; this *right of unrestricted individual belief* came to an end with the departure of Abdul Baha from this life, in 1921. | | | "Baha'u'llah was a champion of religious liberty, an apostle of intellectual freedom and the advocate of man's emancipation from the fetters of dogmas and creeds. | | | A fundamental law of religion and philosophy is freedom of inquiry and investigation, together with the inalienable right of each individual to express the result of his search without any external control or official supervision. |
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http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/SohrabEx.htm
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| | Gateways to Better Education - News and Articles |
| | Religious Freedom Day is not "celebrate-our-diversity day." Freedom means the freedom to disagree (respectfully). | | | Each year, the President declares January 16th to be Religious Freedom Day, and calls upon Americans to observe this day through appropriate events and activities in homes, schools, and places of worship. The day is the anniversary of the passage, in 1786, of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom. | | | The men who drafted the U.S. Constitution leaned heavily on Jefferson's statute in establishing the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom. |
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http://www.gtbe.org/news/index.php/1/65/165.html
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| | HIJAB: PERSONAL FREEDOM VS. ISLAMIC OBLIGATION - As-Safir Discussion Forum |
| | A Muslim organisation in Britain stated about the ban, There can be no doubt that such laws represent a gross breach of human rights and a contravention of the notions of secularism which uphold personal freedoms and liberties, including the right to religious expression and worship. | | | They have argued that the ant-hijab laws are illegitimate because they violate the personal freedom of the Muslim woman, infringe on her right to freedom of religion, and abuse her human rights. | | | Furthermore, the one who believes in freedom is the one who believes that it is his own desires or mind that should govern how he should live his life rather than his Creator, Allah (swt). |
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| | Individual Freedom Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ SomethingPersonal.com |
| | Political freedom is the absence of political restraints, particularly with respect to speech, religious practice, and the press. | | | Freedom of speech is similar to freedom of information, but refers to a general lack of such restrictions (on the creation, use, modification and dissemination of ideas) in a society by the government or those that hold power in that society. | | | Statue of Liberty - Political freedom is one of the meanings of "freedom". |
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http://somethingpersonal.com/encyclopedia/Individual_freedom
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| | HSLDA Pennsylvania Religious Freedom Bill Becomes Law |
| | If a parent in Pennsylvania is homeschooling for religious reasons and comes in conflict with the state, the parent may invoke the new religious freedom act as a defense. | | | HSLDA has worked in many states to introduce and pass religious freedoms acts. | | | Presently, with the passage of Pennsylvania's laws, there are twelve states that have religious freedoms acts including: Texas, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Illinois, Idaho, Florida, Connecticut, Arizona and Alabama. |
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| | India's Freedom Struggle : Indian National Congress at Kamat's Potpourri |
| | Throughout the freedom struggle, Indians had to battle the religious divide and hatred among Hindus and Muslims. | | | Gandhi's comments on Satyagraha) which appealed to the common Indians who were largely pious and religious. | | | The British used this inherent divide among Indians to suppress the Indian freedom movement and eventually divided the nation into a Muslim Pakistan and a secular India. |
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http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/freedom/inc.htm
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| | Liberty Magazine |
| | This is particularly true for Christian claims to freedom of religious practice, as our society, perhaps to a greater extent than that in the U.S.A., maintains a skepticism of the objectives of Christian groups. | | | In Canada, religious liberty rights are guaranteed in two different sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. | | | However, as with most things philosophical and economic, the forty-ninth parallel is an imperfect membrane, allowing American religious liberty thought and antiestablishment sentiment to permeate the collective mind of Canadian society. |
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http://www.libertymagazine.org/article/articleview/525/1/85
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| | United States -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | The largest single religious denomination in the United States is the (The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy) Roman Catholic Church, followed by (Follower of Baptistic doctrines) Baptist, (A follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church) Methodist and (Follower of Lutheranism) Lutheran churches. | | | As a result of the huge influence, both political and cultural, and the use of the same over time, reactions towards the United States are often strong, ranging from uninhibited Americophilia (admiration and mimicking of all things American) to (Click link for more info and facts about Anti-Americanism) Anti-Americanism. | | | The economy of the United States is organized primarily on a (Click link for more info and facts about capitalist model) capitalist model, with some (Click link for more info and facts about government regulation) government regulation in many industries. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/u/un/united_states.htm
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| | HSLDA Pennsylvania - Homeschoolers' Religious Freedom Case Can Proceed |
| | According to the recently enacted Religious Freedom Protection Act, state officials are required to remedy substantial burdens imposed on a person's religious faith by any state statute. | | | Mark and Maryalice Newborn challenged the law under Pennsylvania's Religious Freedom Protection Act and the U.S. Constitution. | | | The Newborns are a family of seven who have been homeschooling for 11 years due to their sincere religious conviction that they, not the state, are responsible before God for their children's education. |
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| | National Religious Freedom Day |
| | National Religious Freedom Day is a day of thanksgiving and a reflection of the tradition of religious liberty, born in Virginia and so vital to world peace, that is shared across America and must be nurtured in communities worldwide. | | | Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution are a unique national heritage that must be protected and understood for generations to come. | | | Proclaimed by the President of the United States on January 16 each year, National Religious Freedom Day commemorates the Virginia General Assembly's adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom on January 16, 1786. |
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http://www.firstfreedom.org/programs/natreligious.html
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| | Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church |
| | To Williams the Puritan, the great justification for freedom of religion was the preservation of the purity of the Church; to the deistic Virginians, the important goal was the removal of a religious threat to the purity and freedom of the State. | | | Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the freedom of press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. | | | If the letters and activities of his post presidential years can be taken as a fair guide, however, he maintained an unrelenting vigilance with respect to freedom in religion, and an unrelenting, perhaps even unforgiving, distrust of all those who would seek in any way to mitigate or limit or nullify that freedom. |
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http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/ed_buckner/quotations.html
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| | www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish |
| | It's about the entire religious debate right now on public issues such as marriage or the end of life or the origins of the human person. | | | Internalized racism operates analogously to internalized homophobia: an attempt to change what is immutably natural is a desperate, pathetic and destructive byproduct of the hatred (e.g., homophobia; racism) that society constructs. | | | The non-Christian members of this group indicated that Senior Leadership, to a person, made them feel like 'evil people' if they were not one of the Christians. |
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