Sentences with phrase «banning discrimination based on sexual orientation»

Activists rallied earlier this month in support of transgender individuals in Puerto Rico, claiming Rivera Schatz's administrative action violated the commonwealth's 2013 law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

eHarmony, whose founder Dr. Neil Clark Warren is an Evangelical Christian, was sued in mid-2007 by a homosexual couple claiming the company is in violation of a California state law which bans discrimination based on sexual orientation because it does not offer matchmaking services to homosexual couples.

Not exact matches

After openly supporting same - sex marriage and striking down the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, the President of the United States also hopes to ban workplace discrimination based on employees» sexual orientation and gender identity.

According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, of the top 50 federal contractors, 86 % prohibit sexual orientation - based discrimination, while 61 % have banned discriminatory practices based on gender identity.

Indeed, 89 % of Fortune 500 companies have policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, while 66 % ban discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

Smith's gay Republican supporters point to Smith's past support for other gay rights legislation, including the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, which would ban employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and a hate crimes prevention bill that includes protection for gays and transgender persons.

Just extend the full benefits of equal protection laws to gays in terms of a protected class analysis and then you prevent discrimination, ban peremptory strikes based on sexual orientation, and allow for Batson challenges when it appears that being gay was the reason for the strike.

This legislation sought to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or expression in public employment, public lodging establishments and public food service establishments.