Sentences with phrase «called civil union»

It is called civil union.

Call it a civil union to get around the religious technicality of the term and be done with it.

The governement can and perhaps should step out of the marriage business altogether, but it would have to be replaced by something equivalent, call it a civil union if you wish, that would give people the same rights.

I am against calling their relationship a marriage, or so I thought because why not call it a civil union for legality purposes, as the argument for it goes?

Just don't murder innocent babies and call your civil unions marriage (which conservatives didn't originate — God did, so take it up with Him) and we'll leave you alone to your own devices.

Call it a Civil Union, but don't call it a Marriage.

And to the extent there are ways that we can help long - term, committed gay couples have the benefits that other citizens enjoy — I think it's been called civil unions — I think that's something that is entirely appropriate.

Not exact matches

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

The Catholic Church has called Italy's decision to approve civil unions a «loss for everyone».

Failing that, he should simply refuse the government's delegation of legal power, referring the couple to the courthouse after the wedding for the state to confect in its bureaucratic way the amorphous and ill - defined civil union that our regime continues to call «marriage.»

I'd take it a step further and allow gay marriage (or civil unions or whatever the hell you want to call it) in the church.

The American Civil Liberties Union has sued over Oklahoma's Ten Commandments monument, calling it an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion.

Santorum claims the USA is the shining star on the hill, but while in Europe gays can enter civil unions which are providing the same legal protection and rights as normal weddings the USA is fighting over this and call this an attack on family values.

For gay people it is a civil union and it's not called marriage, although some people still call it this way.

For now, by registering gospel - qualified unions as civil marriages and not officiating at unions that are not gospel - qualified, we call the government to its responsibility even as we call attention to its limits.»

For that matter call a heterosëxual marriage «civil union» as well, in regards to the government.

If the only concern is extending government provided / sanctioned benefits to gay couples, then just call it what it is — a civil union.

You can call it whatever you want — I will refer to it as a civil union.

The Tennessee American Civil Liberties Union is following the case, saying it supports Martin and calling the judge's ruling unacceptable.

The recommendations were immediately attacked by critics ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the panel of waging «war against innocent American citizens,» to, perhaps more surprisingly, The Wall Street Journal, which called the commission's proposal «an example of enforcement mentality run amok.»

A prominent union leader has called for mass civil disobedience across Britain ahead of the TUC conference.

The ad also called on the media to ask Schumer about his relationship to George Soros, Al Sharpton, Black Lives Matter, and the American Civil Liberties Union.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Hours after the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for what it called the unequal treatment, abuse and denial of rights of farmworkers, the governor said he won't fight it in court.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it «corporate welfare» and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs.»

Mayor Bloomberg lashed out at one of the chief critics of the NYPD's stop - and - frisk policy, calling the New York Civil Liberties Union «dangerously wrong» and «no better than the NRA» for opposing the tactic.

The Public and Commercial Services union today (30) calls on the government to reinstate national negotiations over pay and conditions in the civil service to save money and time.

It has since been criticized by advocacy groups, mostly prominently the New York Civil Liberties Union, for what the organization has called unfair suspensions for minor infractions that had helped compound the so - called school - to - prison pipeline.

We call on all civil society organizations, professional bodies, faith - based groups, youth groups, the union movement, academia, and indeed on all citizens of Ghana to support the Center's call to the EC to avoid a potential constitutional crisis.

While appealing to president Muhammadu Buhari to wade into the alleged barbaric acts of the military on the hapless students and lecturers, the union leader called for caution in using the military in a civil or students protest, stressing that the police which is constitutionally empowered should be used in civil matters to prevent loss of lives of the innocent future leaders.

The union's campaign calls for: no detrimental changes to pensions or the civil service redundancy scheme; a strengthening of the Cabinet Office - agreed measures to avoid compulsory redundancies; and an end to the pay freeze and a fair pay rise for all.

[182] He also called for creation of an ombudsman (public advocate) to ensure compliance with the state's existing civil union law.

Opposing Intro 65 were the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), which called it «unconstitutional,» Make the Road, the United Federation of Teachers, the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Stonewall Democrats of New York, and others.

The New York Civil Liberties Union credited Bratton with reducing the use of stop - and - frisk but called «Broken Windows» an «outmoded» policing model.

He later added: «I oppose the homosexual agenda, whether they call it marriage, civil unions or domestic partnership.

I have a problem with calling it «marriage», I'm OK with the civil union part of it.»

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

Norman Siegel, former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, joins in calling for an independent commission to investigate wrongful convictions in Brooklyn.

The largest state worker union, the Civil Service Employees Association, calls it corporate welfare and a «tax giveaway to business at the expense of local communities and middle class jobs,» Ron Deutsch is with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, a coalition of unions, environmental and social justice groups.

New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman called on the city not to be intimidated by the police unions.

The unionization drive, called Fast Food Forward, is sponsored by community and civil rights groups — including New York Communities for Change, United NY.org and the Black Institute — as well as the Service Employees International Union.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday called a reported plan for a federal monitor on the NYPD to address the stop - and - frisk program a great step forward.

Billue is calling on the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Citizens Review Board to assist in an independent review.

New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Liberman calls Wednesday's agreement historic.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, Mitchel was called to active duty in the Union army as a general.

Meanwhile, attention may shift to a lawsuit filed against Cobb County on 21 August in U.S. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union, calling the March agreement on textbook inserts unconstitutional, says biologist Sarah Pallas of Georgia State University in Atlanta.

The groups opposing Myriad - the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) of New York - called the decision historic.

Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the American Civil Liberties Union, calls backscatter x-ray imaging «nothing more than an electronic strip search.»

The ruling follows a lawsuit brought by a group of patients and scientists represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) and calls into question the validity of patents now held on approximately 4,000 human genes.

The red carpet may have been a melange of colours, but the political undercurrent was hard to miss with Time's Up pin, blue American Civil Liberties Union ribbons and orange American flag pins calling for gun safety reforms in the wake of Florida school shooting, making their way into designer wears.

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