Sentences with phrase «between civil unions»

Pray tell, the difference between civil union and marriage?

Not exact matches

Senate Democrats tracked down a career Justice Department employee named J. Gerald Hebert, who testified, albeit reluctantly, that in a conversation between the two men Sessions had labelled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) «un-American» and «Communist - inspired.»

The only thing the state should regulate or define is the legal contract between two consenting adults to form a civil union, and that should be made available to any two consenting adults regardless of gender.

The open issue is should the state recognize civil unions between men.

Do you also avoid the 32 states, not to mention the states that permit civil unions rather than gay marriage, that define marriage as that between a man and a woman?

If there is an inherent «right to marriage» for same - sex couples, religious groups that refuse to marry gay couples are violating their civil rights, which in turn could lead to a repeal of the churches» tax exempt status» or a complete overturn in our law and culture of the religious understanding of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

4) Facilitation / Divorce Co-ordinator (Couples / Family): Facilitation can be used to resolve any type of family dispute — divorce (financial aspects, contact and care, rights and responsibilities in respect of the parents to the children, holiday contact, maintenance issues), post-divorce disputes (ongoing contact, disputes with regard to joint decisions to be made between the parties etc), maintenance, permanent relationship or civil union disputes, relocation matters, testamentary division.

«However, we were surprised to find that President Obama was not included as a target of this political hit, as he and Dan share the same position of supporting civil unions while holding the personal belief that marriage should be between a man and a woman,» Lam continued.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

But how can a union that led marches against stop - and - frisk and hosted a dialogue between Justice League NYC, a leading civil rights group, and City Hall also bankroll a political party so hostile to its social - justice agenda?

The New York Civil Liberties Union chose a busy corridor in the Capitol between lawmakers» offices and the Senate and Assembly chambers to hold a contest featuring a brightly colored wheel styled after the one on the iconic television show.

A recent lawsuit was settled between the county's sheriff's office and the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of six juvenile plaintiffs.

The New York Civil Liberties Union chose a busy corridor in the Capitol between lawmakers» offices and the Senate and Assembly chambers to hold a contest, featuring a brightly colored roulette wheel styled after the one on the iconic television show.

«There is clearly a problem in that those individuals who are gay or lesbian who would live in a civil union are still not entitled to somewhere between 1,250 and 1,300 civil protections» available to married couple, Paterson said.»

Mr McDonnell also welcomed a proposal by Unite general secretary Len McCluskey that the union could broker a peace deal between the leader and his rebel MPs to avoid «civil war» in the party.

He's clearly keen to put some distance between himself and the record of the last Labour government on many issues — Iraq, equality, redistribution and tax, markets and privatisation, industrial policy, trade union rights and working hours, and civil liberties.

Fights over to what extent the county is responsible for paying the full cost of employees» health care have sprung up recently after heated negotiations between the Astorino administration and the Civil Service Employees Association, CSEA — a union representing the county's public sector workers — failed to produce a compromise, including a contract offer that the union rejected earlier this month.

While Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Senator Barack Obama stated that while he personally considered marriage to be between a man and woman, [100] and supported civil unions that confer comparable rights rather than gay marriage, [101] he opposed «divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution... the U.S. Constitution or those of other states».

Despite the conclusion of one of the more controversial contract battles in recent history between the Civil Service Employees Association and the executive branch, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and NY's largest state workers union remain at odds over a host of issues.

The complaints, filed in state Supreme Court on March 9, address a memorandum of agreement between former Chief Deputy County Executive Rob Walker with each of Nassau's major unions: Civil Service Employees Association, Police Benevolent Association, Superior Officers Association, Corrections Officers Benevolent Association and Detectives Association Inc..

[1] After a protracted legal battle between the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Patent Office against Myriad, the Supreme Court ruled that isolated genes were a «product of nature» and therefore not patent eligible.

So if you're looking for singles as crazy about music as you are, you'll meet great Marriage in Scotland is recognised in the form of both civil and religious unions between individuals.

Copyright © 2016 Marriage in Scotland is recognised in the form of both civil and religious unions between individuals.

Marriage in Scotland is recognised in the form of both civil and religious unions between individuals.

It's set soon after the Civil War and there still exists a palpable uneasiness between Confederate and Union types, creating a constantly teetering milieu between violence and progress.

As for Peña and Luna, this will mark the second collaboration between the two after collaborating in 2014 on Cesar Chavez about the civil rights leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union.

School resource officers need the tools to strike a balance between their job of keeping schools safe and the privacy rights of students, a white paper by the American Civil Liberties Union says.

To build bridges between civil society networks and engage with other partners such as trade unions.

«The sharing of massive amounts of data between school districts and private companies poses a serious threat to students» privacy,» said, Colleen K. Connell, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions, as if corporate America has done black folk many favors.

Fallen Land is set during the end of the Civil War and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forces.

The American Civil War was a war fought in the United States of America between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy) beginning from 1861 and ending in 1865.

Over the hotel's 200 - year history, it has hosted 26 presidents and switched between Confederate and Union troops during the Civil War.

Between 1968 and 1972, the United States would experience some of its most turbulent years in memory, simultaneously enduring a hot war in Southeast Asia, a Cold War with the Soviet Union, the Civil Rights Movement, campus unrest, and assassinations.

Yeah, the fucking bastards, damn the International Civil Aviation Organization for ensuring aircraft can communicate in the countries they travel between and don't collide, curse the International Maritime Organization for allowing the same benefits to ships and assisting navigation at sea, screw the Universal Postal Union for ensuring that post can be sent between countries and reach it's destination okay and fuck the International Telecommunication Union for assigning things like country codes so that people in different countries don't have different numbers making international phone systems incompatible.

Civil law countries already distinguish between legal marriage, which basically is a «civil union» and religious marriage, which is deinstitutionalCivil law countries already distinguish between legal marriage, which basically is a «civil union» and religious marriage, which is deinstitutionalcivil union» and religious marriage, which is deinstitutionalized.

The very essence of the connection between siblings was consanguinity, whereas one of the defining characteristics of a marriage or Civil Partnership Act union was that it was forbidden to close family members.

Furthermore, even when «civil contract» terminology is used in statute, it can not drive a wedge between the general and the ecclesiastical law of marriage: a union authorised by law must be recognised equally as a lawful union by the officers and tribunals of the national religion (Thompson v Dibdin [1912] AC 533) except to the extent that parliament limits parishioners» rights in order to protect individual clerical consciences.

The European Union Civil Service Tribunal (hereafter «the Civil Service Tribunal») shall exercise at first instance jurisdiction in disputes between the Union and its servants referred to in Article 270 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, including disputes between all bodies or agencies and their servants in respect of which jurisdiction is conferred on the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The court declared only section 585 (obligation of support between married and civil union spouses) of the Civil Code unconstitutional and in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freecivil union spouses) of the Civil Code unconstitutional and in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and FreeCivil Code unconstitutional and in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The Quebec Civil Code, which governs relations between private persons, treats common - law spouses as two independent individuals, regardless of the length of their union.

Except applications under article 814.9, no application that involves the interests of the parties and the interests of their children may be heard by the court if there is a dispute between the parties regarding child custody, support due to a party or to the children, the family patrimony or other patrimonial rights arising from the marriage or civil union, unless the parties have attended an information session on the mediation process and a copy of the mediator's report has been filed.

The judge concluded that the difference in treatment between common - law spouses and married or civil union spouses is not discriminatory.

It will also do so if courts blur the lines between federal and state or provincial authority, making it more difficult for citizens to know what government is responsible for what law or social programme, or give private unaccountable actors, such as civil servants» unions, power to influence public affairs.

A post-civil union agreement is a contract between the parties, executed during the civil union, that addresses what will happen financially during the course of the civil union, in the event of dissolution of the civil union or the death of a party, or in other agreed upon circumstances.

«The new reports underscore the incredibly close collaboration between the NSA and the country's major telecommunications companies, which has allowed the NSA to embed itself in the very fabric of the Internet, and exposes the communications of innocent Americans to routine spying,» American Civil Liberties Union Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey told the E-Commerce Times.

«The new reports underscore the incredibly close collaboration between the NSA and the country's major telecommunications companies, which has allowed the NSA to embed itself in the very fabric of the Internet, and exposes the communications of innocent Americans to routine spying,» American Civil Liberties Union Staff Attorney Patrick Toomey told the E-Commerce...

As more states enact legislation providing legal recognition to same - sex couples, you may wonder about the differences between same - sex marriage and civil unions (or domestic partnerships), as well as how these laws might affect a REALTOR ® association.

The most important difference between a same - sex marriage and a civil union is portability.