Sentences with phrase «against gay couples»

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today announced plans to introduce legislation prohibiting discrimination against gay couples looking to adopt, the Washington Blade reports:

Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer today signed a bill today legalizing discrimination against gay couples who want to adopt children.

Do you think that removing the limitation against gay couples would cause more men to suddenly become gay and leave their wives?

An American court has unanimously upheld a ruling and a $ 135,000 fine that two Christian bakery owners discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to make them a wedding cake almost five years ago.

it's funny the hot button topics on religion get hundreds of posts; the one about the catholic churuch discriminating against a gay couple get two pages of posts.

There has been noticed many incidences of physical violence against the gay couple in many regions and countries.

The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal by a Christian bed and breakfast owner, upholding the decision that she unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to provide them with a double bedroom.

The Christian owner of a B&B in Berkshire was found to have discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to allow them stay in a double - bedded room because of her belief that all sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong.

In Preddy v Bull [2013] UKSC 73 the Supreme Court upheld the claim that the owners of a private hotel had discriminated unlawfully against a gay couple by allowing only married couples to occupy a room with a double bed.

Not exact matches

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.

Will they deny that Christ - imitating, self - sacrificing love is indeed present in many same - sex relationship and continue to advocate against ensuring gay couples can visit one another in the hospital?

We are talking about adoption agencies being required to assign children to gay couples, colleges and universities being required to offer same - sex couples access to married housing, and any number of similar scenarios revolving around perceived discrimination against gays and lesbians.»

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.

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.

Whitney gave false testimony to try to argue against it by saying that children of gay couples are routinely abused, when statistics show otherwise.

The problem is that organized religions claim that they can explain it, but their explanations are without merit and rely on blind faith, which leads to a host of problems like suicide bombers believing in 40 virgins after death, or bigotry against gays, to name just a couple examples.

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

As a result, two gay couples and two straight couples have filed suit against her in Kentucky, and a judge has sided with the plaintiffs.

The last straight couple featured also stands up against the harasser for the gay couple.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. today announced that he backs same - sex marriage rights as his father, state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., is in Washington to take part in protests against marriage rights for gay couples.

That's especially true against a governor who has long gotten strong support in the gay community for his staunch fight for legislation in 2011 that allowed same - sex couples in the state to marry.

And, then again, about opponent Andrew Cuomo taking his daughters to gay pride: «I don't think it's proper for them to go there and watch a couple of grown men grind against each other.

Backed by gay rights groups, Golinski sued the government, arguing that DOMA discriminates against legally married same - sex couples by depriving them of the same rights, from health benefits to tax status, as heterosexual couples.

(CNN)- Sen. Marco Rubio flatly stated Thursday that he'll vote against his own immigration bill if it ends up including rights for gay and lesbian couples.

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.

Regardless, the fact that Marvel still doesn't have an openly gay character or any openly gay couples in its franchise so far is a blight against it.

As a gay couple who have been together for almost 20 years we know what it is like to be discriminated against.

Then there are the superb images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a gay woman in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits of nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.»

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.

Yet another gay couple is launching a human rights case against a taxi cab company whose employee tried to force the couple out of his cab on a busy expressway after the couple shared a kiss in the back seat of their cab.