divine sanction

In their book Taking America Back for God, Whitehead and Perry argue that Christian Nationalism “gives divine sanction to ethnocentrism and nativism.”

Historically, claiming that law should be rooted in theological dogma is in the tradition of the southern theologians Lincoln condemned, who justified slavery by biblical references and divine sanction.

Sessions is effectively claiming divine sanction for the idea that people who break laws may be punished and deterred by subjecting their children to mental anguish.

Part of what makes caste so stubborn is its divine sanction in the Hindu tradition.

Mary Erickson, a member of the Episcopal clergy - appearing without official divine sanction - said a few words.