Sentences with phrase «basic civil rights»

Marriage is one of the «basic civil rights of man», fundamental to our very existence and survival.

Remember this is a culture that had to argue over slavery and other basic civil rights, so the power of evil is still prevalent.

I've been called a socialist and a baby - killer for voting for Barack Obama, an enemy of the Church for asking questions about biblical inerrancy, a Buddhist for reading Thich Nhat Hahn, and a raging liberal for supporting basic civil rights for gays and lesbians.

There is a delicious irony in Christians complaining about having atheism forced on them, when everywhere you look there are Christian symbols, there are evangelists asking if we atheists have «heard the good news», and most infuriating, there are those who would deny basic civil rights to those who offend their Jesus.

torching the mosque, retorching the mosque, not letting some people get same treatment because of the color of their skin, not letting some people basic civil right because of their style of living..

Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who is the only openly gay member of the state Senate, said the law «is an assault on basic civil rights.»

«Well, that's because the Religious Right opposes basic civil rights for gays and lesbians,» I tell myself.

It may be that Maggie Gallagher is wrong to contend that gay marriage will weaken marriage overall, but surely that does not make people like her into «homophobic» activists out to «deny gay and lesbian couples basic civil rights.»

This thread has nothing to do with your favorite pass time of denying Muslims basic civil rights!

This very basic civil right would be equally applied to adoptees as to non-adoptees.

«The most innocent and tender and fragile of human beings, the baby in the womb, is denied the most basic civil right of all — the right to life,» Dolan said.

After the Legislature left Albany, he said, «It is incredibly disappointing that the Senate leadership again refused to bring GENDA to a vote... We've worked to address the concerns raised by senators, yet the bill was still killed in a back room... The Senate leadership's failure to bring GENDA to a vote demonstrates a fear of forcing senators to stand up for or against basic civil rights.»

The glaring lack of data on each of these traditionally underserved groups makes it difficult to assess charter schools as an educational reform, or monitor their compliance with basic civil rights regulations and state charter school legislation.

The straightforward, unembellished third - person narration describes Edi's life as it was before the war, when he lived in Serbia under strict ethnic segregation laws that denied Kosovars many basic civil rights, such as education and fair pay.

The principles of habeas corpus, the rules against unreasonable detention, let alone basic civil rights, are potentially destined for the United States scrap heap if his purge of unregistered migrants is more than theatrical rhetoric.

Arvo: In Loving Vs. Virginia, the supreme court held that «Marriage is one of the «basic civil rights of man,»»

There are millions in these types of relationships now and all the want is their basic civil rights.

Rick - The religious reicht have * always * opposed * any * expansion of basic civil right to * anyone * outside of white, Christian men, excepting for those who didn't own property.

Again he lauded the American experience, which demonstrates «that a united society can indeed arise from a plurality of peoples ¯ E pluribus unum: out of many, one ¯ provided that all recognize religious liberty as a basic civil right.»

Marriage is certainly viewed as a basic civil right among heterosexual couples, and President Obama believes that same right extends to gay and lesbian couples.

I think that someday evangelicals will look back and be sorry that they opposed granting these basic civil rights to their fellow citizens.

Recently passed arrest and detention laws imposed by Congress on Washington, D.C., with its plurality of black people, suggest the beginning steps in removing the basic civil rights of people, with blacks once again the first and prime victims.

In 1983 a chairman of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality described paedophiles as «a group oppressed by prejudice, violence, ignorance, biased law making and the denial of basic civil rights».

«Where refugees, green card holders, dual citizenship citizens, Muslims from any and all countries stepping out of a plane onto New York State soil are immediately guaranteed their basic civil rights — their human rights — enforced with the full weight of New York legal authority,» the group's email states.

District Attorney Kathleen Rice believes the fight for equality for our LGBT communities is a battle for basic civil rights.

Meanwhile, Duffy, who told the ESPA rally attendees this morning that people will flee the state if they are «denied a basic civil right» — just like they are departing in the face of ever - increasing property taxes — did not stick around to chat with reporters who were covering the event.

«Hopefully after you take care of those important things you can take up a basic civil right for a large portion of people,» Stewart said.

His grandmother lived with a disability, as well as his father (at the end of his life), He sees disability access as a basic civil right and pledged to work aggressively in support of this type of legislation if elected.

Recent actions taken by the Russian government have led LGBT citizens to face not only a society that is intolerant of their basic civil rights, but also a country that would imprison them for declaring support for their own fundamental rights as humans.

It's time for him to take a stand on the basic civil right of equal treatment under the law.

Does he support equal rights, or is he in lock - step with the Conservative Party's opposition to basic civil rights?»

«It is a creative solution to extend those basic civil rights across the state of New York.»

«We look forward to working with the Administration to quickly implement these regulations so transgender New Yorkers are protected from discrimination — a basic civil right that is long overdue,» Schaefer said in the statement.

The purpose of the amendment was to secure the basic civil rights of all citizens, regardless of race, and to give federal judges both...

The origins of the blues lie in the vernacular culture of African Americans living in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century — people for whom slavery was a recent memory and basic civil rights were far in the future.

We defend the wrongfully accused, protect your basic civil rights, and help to maintain your freedom, career, and reputation.

I am aware of basic civil rights, e.g. right to silence, but would like to know more specifically

Ten years ago next Tuesday, in one of its most momentous decisions, a divided Supreme Court used a strict scrutiny standard of review to hold that, «in view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship, the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same - sex couples as well as to opposite - sex couples.»

This means any country that participates in the CLOUD act can't trample the basic civil rights afforded to us as citizens of the U.S. — and that rights of citizens in other countries can't be trampled by the U.S. government.