Sentences with phrase «act discriminates against gay»
WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and lesbians, even as his administration moved in federal court to defend the law.
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Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «Through wide exceptions that exempt religious organisations from significant parts of the law, the Equality Act gives excessive privileges specifically to religious groups, permitting them to discriminate against not only gay and lesbian people but against the non-religious and those of other religions.
The special exemptions enshrined in the Act to permit organised religions to treat lesbian and gay people unkindly, unfairly, and discriminate against them are so wide that the legislation itself may even be in breach of European equality legislation.