Sentences with phrase «as homosexual discrimination»

suicides at Jonestown, the O. J. Simpson trial, the Gulf War, as wells as more personal injustices such as homosexual discrimination during the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

He chose subject matter that addressed current events directly, offering his view on widely publicized tragedies such as the mass suicides at Jonestown, the O. J. Simpson trial, the Gulf War, as wells as more personal injustices such as homosexual discrimination during the HIV / AIDS epidemic.

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Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

Supporters of a change in the current DOD policy argue that just as blacks and women experienced discrimination in the past, so too are homosexuals discriminated against today by being excluded from military service.

These two questions reflect an interest in adding to the rights of homosexuals as part of a larger concern for the struggle for equality and against discrimination.

A great many of our fellow citizens see demands for homosexual marriage as just one more step in the democratic struggle against injustice and discrimination, a continuation of the fight against racism.

The third decision concerned a 1992 statewide referendum in which the voters in Colorado adopted an amendment, known as Amendment 2, to their constitution prohibiting laws that make homosexual orientation, conduct, and relationships the bases of special entitlements to minority status, quota preferences, and claims to discrimination.

«Our beliefs should not be viewed as discrimination against homosexual people.

Those participants who reported their heterosexuality despite having hidden same - sex desires were also the most likely to show hostility toward gay individuals, including self - reported anti-gay attitudes, endorsement of anti-gay policies and discrimination such as supporting harsher punishments for homosexuals.