Constitutional Role of Faith-based Organizations in Competitions for Federal Social Service Funds: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, June 7, 2001U.S. Government Printing Office, 2001 - 91 Seiten |
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Seite 26 - ... to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical...
Seite 52 - Probably at the time of the adoption of the constitution, and of the amendment to it, now under consideration, the general, if not the universal, sentiment in America was, that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from the state, so far as was not incompatible with the private rights of conscience, and the freedom of religious worship. An attempt to level all religions, and to make it a matter of state policy to hold all in utter indifference, would have created universal disapprobation, if...
Seite 30 - Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land of the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises a principle and precedent for the appropriation of funds of the United States for the use and support of religious societies, contrary to the article of the Constitution which declares that "Congress shall make no law respecting a religious establishment.
Seite 87 - As long as there is always a secular alternative for anyone who wants one, and as long as no one is required to participate in religious observances as a condition for receiving services, faith-based organizations can provide jobs and job training, counseling and mentoring, food and basic medical care. They can do so with public funds - and without having to alter the religious character that is so often the key to their...
Seite 11 - Determining that certain activities are in furtherance of an organization's religious mission, and that only those committed to that mission should conduct them, is thus a means by which a religious community defines itself.
Seite 78 - Much of today's poverty has more to do with troubled lives than a troubled economy. And often when a life is broken, it can only be restored by another caring, concerned human being. The answer for an abandoned child is not a job requirement — it is the loving presence of a mentor. The answer to addiction is not a demand for self-sufficiency — it is personal support on the hard road to recovery.
Seite 65 - Nor does the Constitution require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.
Seite 52 - ... community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can well exist without them, And, at all events, it is impossible for those who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt that...
Seite 71 - Exercise requirements; he noted that "(rjeligion included important communal events for most believers. They exercise their religion through religious organizations, and these organizations must be protected by the [Free Exercise ]|C]lause.
Seite 52 - It must have a creed, defining what a man must believe ; it must have rites and ordinances, which believers must observe ; it must have ministers of defined qualifications, to teach the doctrines and administer the rites ; it must have tests for the submissive, and penalties for the non-conformist. There never was an established religion without all these.