Sentences with phrase «against gay civil»

Campaigners are today taking their bid to overturn bans against gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships to the European court of human rights (ECHR).

That's why he moved so many jobs overseas and he's against gay civil rights, the very thing this country was founded on.

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Since the late 1950s, there has a been «a growing revulsion against aggression on smaller scales,» empowered by movements for «civil rights, women's rights, children's rights, gay rights, and animal rights.»

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.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

The political right is moving back toward individual economic rights, and the younger generations are moving toward individual civil rights like being against substance and gay marriage laws.

I really struggle with concerns that participating in a church community that restricts the roles of women in leadership, or that actively campaigns against the civil rights of gays and lesbians, makes me complicit in those activities.

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.

The Civil Rights Agenda has released a statement saying that Chick - Fil - A has agreed to stop donating money to organizations that are against gay marriage.

You may believe the Bible tells you gays should be able to marry or maybe even that blacks should not be able to marry whites (another thing people have used the Bible to protest against); however, that does not mean that US civil equal rights laws should be based on your personal religious beliefs.

Unless your gay then he's against their civil rights to marry and protect their families.

Bitter the once bitten case hardened uncivil debutants holding steadfast their now dying almost dead hands dealt against the gay player's unbeatable civil hand.

Their goal is to use scientific studies to bolster arguments against giving gay and lesbian people political or civil rights.

hingie, I really don't care what you think since my civil marriage has nothing to do with your book of fairy tales and if the main reason you believe gays should be discriminated against is because you read it in your book of myths, then all the more reason to grant gays their civil marriages.

Wait a minute, since you and your bigoted friends aren't really talking about taking away citizenship from our gay brothers and sisters (it would be a civil war if you tried, I'm not gay and I would fight against you), how could you take away any of their «God» given rights as a citizen, you know the same «God» given rights that you and your patriotic friends enjoy (I am assuming that you and everyone else that feels like you have served our great country in uniform just like me and my gay brothers and sister have done, are doing and will do).

MORMONS waged a political war against the gays in an attempt to deny civil rights to 10 percent of the population — BIGOTRY, church orchestrated bigotry.

Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.

This is about gays getting their civil right to marry and it has people talking because those that are voting against it show how clueless they are about the facts on this subject.

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

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.

Theresa May has previously voted against reducing the age of consent for gay people, the repeal of Section 28 and civil partnership.

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.

The gay marriage bill has been saved after Ed Miliband agreed at the last minute to vote against an amendment to extend civil partnerships to heterosexual couples that had prompted government warnings that it would derail the entire measure.

Against nostalgic accounts like Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, most social - change movements are started and directed by the relatively affluent and well - educated, from the preacher - led civil rights movement to modern feminism to gay rights.

The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

Thorne - Begland's opponents argued that they voted against him not because he was gay, but rather because his advocacy «amounted to military insubordination and a challenge to the state constitution, which bans gay marriage and civil unions,» the Post reports.

Filing civil rights complaints leading to the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal's decision in 2008 against homophobic harassment, which awarded a West - Island gay couple $ 15,000 in damages, and another decision from the Tribunal in 2010, granting the same couple $ 12,000 in damages in another case.