Sentences with phrase «against equal marriage»

None would have voted against equal marriage and neither did any of the five appear to dispute climate change.

He also tried not not to alienate any potential centrist supporters over his vote against equal marriage in 2013.

Asked why he voted against equal marriage in the last Parliament, he said:

Her about - turn will bring to mind the actions of education secretary Nicky Morgan, who also voted against equal marriage and then indicated she had changed her mind after being given the equalities portfolio last year.

Not exact matches

If Sarah Palin really believed in God and in God's creations all being equal, she would not be against gay marriage and the rights of all humans to be equal.

Those opposed to gay marriage say it goes against what the Bible says about sexuality, and that same - sex couples already have equal rights via civil partnerships.

I therefore conclude that you make equal argumentation against second marriages (as compared to homosexual marriage).

In response, we believe in building strong marriages with our spouses and children as we start our own families, but wonder what this has to do with fighting against equal protection for gay couples.

hawaiiguest I never said or implied that I am against gay marriage or equal rights.

It is unlikely that Pope Paul VI or any of the bishops in 1968 would have imagined that within a few decades a substantial proportion of Catholic parents in some Western countries would be living together outside of marriage or that the Church in those countries would be defending her rights against those who claim that homosexual partnerships must be treated as being of equal value with marriage.

«We believe that personal independence and equal human rights can never be forfeited, except for crime; that marriage should be an equal and permanent partnership, and so recognized by law; that until it is so recognized, married partners should provide against the radical injustice of present laws, by every means in their power...»

The prime minister referenced both press regulation and equal marriage in his reply to Miller's letter, which Miller's parliamentary aide Mary Macleod had claimed were behind the press» «witch - hunt» against the culture secretary.

As well as briefing against the Equal Love campaign, Stonewall also exaggerated the cost of equal marriage rights; making absurd, unfounded claims that it would cost billions of poEqual Love campaign, Stonewall also exaggerated the cost of equal marriage rights; making absurd, unfounded claims that it would cost billions of poequal marriage rights; making absurd, unfounded claims that it would cost billions of pounds.

Moreover, he knew that we might win and did not want the embarrassment of being forced by Europe to legislate equal marriage, which would have been used against him by Euro - sceptics in his own party — and by UKIP.

Loughton is an unlikely political partner of Tatchell because he voted against the second reading of the equal marriage bill.

Those who disagree with what she has fought for — namely equal marriage, the campaign against FGM and work to reduce gender and racial bias — are merely taking an easy shot at a political opponent.

New equalities minister Caroline Dinenage has stated that she now supports equal marriage — having voted against it in 2013.

Two Liberal Democrat MPs plan to vote against the bill to legalise equal marriage later, despite the fact their own Lynne Featherstone is responsible for pushing it forward as equalities minister.

There are another nine Lib Dem MPs who are listed on the Coalition for Equal Marriage website as not declaring for or against.

«Rather than speaking up and speaking out against discrimination in all its forms, after years of silence on same sex marriages, Donovan has chosen to oppose equal rights for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

As the nature of marriage becomes more complex with partners bringing assets, income, and property into a union on an increasingly equal basis, the decision to award one party support or a larger share of communal property is no longer a simple equation — time put into a union against lost income — or any similarly simplistic comparison.