Sentences with phrase «acts against gays»

Now, if and when, a business, starts advocating criminal and violent acts against gays, or anyone else, then you can and should cry and scream.

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Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon is introducing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Bloomberg reports.

I constantly hear of large groups of gays protesting against the rights of Christians to marry other Christians, telling adolescent Christians they are immoral and committing acts of violence against Christians.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

This was in the mid / late eighties, when fear about AIDS was still high, and where acts of violence and discrimation against gays and lesbians was still hight.

For you to say gays relationships are not ok because that is an act against god and my belief, is the ultimate hypocrisy.

This included an amendment to the Equality Act 2010 so that no discrimination claims could be brought against religious institutions for refusing to marry a gay couple.

«Well - intentioned Christians, believing that being gay is a sinful choice that can be easily changed, speak and act accordingly,» he writes, «recommending ex-gay ministries and fighting against cultural acceptance of homosexuality.

But few of us would endorse those elements of tradition that baptize patriarchal oppression, endorse violence against women, oppress lesbians and gays, exalt perpetual virginity as the superior state, or declare that heterosexual rape is a lesser sin than masturbation (on the view that the latter act contradicts nature while the former act, while also sinful, is in accordance with nature) The postbiblical tradition, like Scripture itself, does not provide one coherent, consistent sexual ethic.

As a state senator battling for re-election in 2002, he voted against the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act, which barred business and property owners from firing or evicting gays and lesbians on the basis of their identity.

Skelos» legacy as majority leader includes allowing senators to vote for the first time on bills that legalized gay marriage and the NY Safe Act, a strict gun control measure, although Skelos personally voted against both laws.

This is a term that was invented to describe people with a pathological fear of homosexuals — the kind of people who engage in acts of violence against gays.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act, first introduced in 1994, would prohibit job discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

He added that she has «straight As» from the National Rifle Association and voted against Democratic Gov. David Paterson's «bloated» budget this year (Burns conceded there were other issues on which the Republican has problems with conservatives in her party: she is pro-abortion, voted for gay marriage and, while not endorsing the controversial «card check» provision in the Employee Free Choice Act, she does support «reform in workers» ability to organize» — a stand not too different from that of AFL - CIO President Rich Trumka when he said he could support EFCA without card check).

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

But culture secretary Maria Miller has hinted the Parliament Act could be used against the Lords if it attempts to resist the coalition's gay marriage drive.

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.

Roskoff and Johnson were particularly angered by the fact that Kruger voted «yes» on the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in 2002 (a measure Gentile voted against, sparking the wrath of gay groups that supported him), but refused to support marriage.

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.

One insider expressed surprise that Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan pushed all his members to remain unified in voting for the bill rather than allowing most of the conference to vote against it with the knowledge it could pass with mostly Democratic votes as occured under former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos when he allowed the gay marriage and SAFE Act bills to the floor.

Congressman Engel has supported previous legislation concerning LGBT issues like supporting ENDA (Employment Non-Discrimination Act) to prohibit employment discrimination for gays and voting against DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) and Marriage Protection Amendment (bans same - sex marriage).

She was the first member of Congress to introduce gay rights legislation, her approach being a full - scale incorporation of sexual orientation into the protections afforded by the 1964 Civil Rights Act against discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and other categories.

But that doesn't mean Collins has changed his mind on issues such as gay marriage — which the Supreme Court made the law of the land in 2015 — and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, the proposed bill that would bar workplace discrimination against gays.

We know Penn already has an Oscar, which definitely matters in a year where an acting race is this close, but whatever votes Penn will lose because of this will be countered by any ones he'll inevitably get from those guilt - tripped into thinking by the shrill Brokeback Mountain cult that a vote for Crash a few years ago was one against gay rights.