Sentences with phrase «deny gay people»

I know a lot of those nuns may disagree with you about those clear mandates from God to deny gay people equal rights.

There is absolutely no difference whatsoever between... «some organizations are working to deny gay people marriage»... and... «some organizations are working to deny gay people their rights».

If you want to deny gay people the right to get married, or want to outlaw abortion, or want creationism taught in school then you have hurt others.

Deny gay people the right to come into your home all you want, refuse them sale or service from a business open to the public and advertising products to everyone then you have just violated the law and should have your business license taken away.

Earlier this year the US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny gay people the right to marry.

No one is denying gay people the right to be baptized or to receive communion.

Wesfarmers boss Richard Goyder has joined the push for marriage equality, saying that denying gay people the right to marry is unacceptable for his company.

Wesfarmers boss Richard Goyder has joined the push for marriage equality, saying denying gay people the right to marry is unacceptable for his company.

Not exact matches

On Tuesday, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed legislation known as HB 1523, making it legal for businesses and religious organizations to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in that state.

That's why so many religious people are working so hard to deny gays and lesbians their civil rights that harms them and their families.

To deny same gender life - partnerships these rights because some people find the thought of gay marriage icky or offensive is discrimination, pure and simple.

Furthermore, regardless of your belief that being gay is abnormal, denying people the rights you enjoy to marry a consenting adult is simply WRONG.

Corporations are people and have free speech rights, so businesses should be able to deny services to gays because of their beliefs, but if another corporation doesn't want to enter into a business venture because they found out their future partners are anti-gay bigots that is somehow wrong?

Such supporters were described as men and women who seek «to «demean,» to «impose inequality,» to «impose... a stigma,» to deny people «equal dignity,» to brand gay people as «unworthy,» and to «humiliat [e]» their children.»

Just like the Christians who have no remorse for blocking the civil rights of gay people that brings harm to their families, especially during emergencies when they are denied being with their loved ones during death in a hospital and protection for their children.

If someone denies goods or services to someone because they are gay, does that same individual also deny any and all goods and services provided BY gay people?

And, of course, none of this as anything to do with gay people wishing to be married, and being denied the right to do so.

@YeahRight: I agree; besides, no matter what one quotes, there is still absolutely no reason to deny civil marriage to gay people.

Chad Radical Christianity makes people kill doctors, beat up gays, force women to carry unwanted pregnancies, deny good science, burn children's books, and a mult.itude of other stupid and harmful things.

I don't want Gay people to be denied access to their loved ones in times of emergency etc..

There is a very simple difference — anti-gay people think they can control other people through law by denying them legal rights...pro - gay people understand that religious people have their rights to believe and worship freely, but not to discriminate against others via the law based on religious beliefs.

If you approve of planes flying into buildings, dressing women in cloth bags, denying stem cell research, discrimination against women, gays and anyone with alternate beliefs, denying contraception to people who can't afford families, picketing soldiers funerals, etc, etc, then keep your fuzzy mindset about good and evil.

If a gay person is seen as having a right to a new, non-traditional, form of marriage, how can anyone deny a similar right to a bi-se.

Now, gee, why do you think the LGBT community might have issues with people trying to deny them equal rights especially when those people are trying to convince everyone else gay people are subhuman and are even hated by God?

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.»

When a gay person is denied basic human rights because of how they were born, it is real to me.

After granting gays people the right to marry, denying them the tax breaks would be a form of reverse discrimination... effectively taxing them for BEING gay.

Now you're just reposting your original post, without providing any further evidence as to why gay people should be denied.

To deny that Jack is gay (or American) may not be to deny his humanity, but it is an attempt to break down who he is as a particular human individual, and it has never been an aim of orthodox Christianity to engage in this sort of ideological project of deconstructing and reconstructing people.

ddeevviinn I know of a number of people who say that they can find no sensible reason for denying equal marriage rights to gays, but they will because the Bible declares it wrong.

You lost me when you got up and sang on Sunday morning about not judging other people until we walked a mile in their shoes — yet denied a gay couple a chance for a happy life together.

Why then have so many Christians found a way to treat divorced people with grace and acceptance while at the same time have only disgust toward gay people and will even fight to have their rights denied in society?

I can't imagine anyone sitting around thinking to themselves: «Gee, I wonder whether I should choose to be straight, which is considered normal and acceptable; or perhaps choose to be gay, which is roundly condemned by a large percentage of otherwise intelligent people, considered a sin by many churches, was once illegal in most states, will likely result in my being shunned, abused, ridiculed, abandoned, abused, and beaten — possibly killed; will deny me many rights and advantages available to married people; may cost me jobs; and which in general will set me outside of society, marginalized and ostracized.

Listen to hypocritical believers screaming to deny gays equal rights or pretending the Bible EVER mentions abortion while they are yelling at pro-choice people in front of doctors» offices.

While the Kansas bill explicitly allows businesses and individuals to deny services to gays and lesbians, Arizona's law is worded more broadly to apply to anything that could violate a person's religious conscience.

In fact, by denying marriage equality to gay people, Christians are compelling gay couples to sin, because their intimacy must happen outside of marriage, and is therefore, by biblical definition, sinful.

Looks like the pastor didn't think that through... or he's still a denier and believes gay people choose to be gay.

What can not be denied is that Christians have caused a great deal of pain and suffering to gay persons, by:

At least as long as you do not try to apply it to other people, such as denying civil gay marriage.

The moral shame is people like you who deny what all the experts are now saying about gays.

When morality is based on religious text, its OK to: • behead one's daughter to restore a family's «honor» • deny emergency medical aid to a child • kill gays, children who misbehave, anyone who works on a particular day of the week, entire groups and races of peoples, and many others for equally capricious reasons • buy and sell humans as chattel, including one's own family members • kill anyone who visually depicts Muhammad

But what I want to address here is whether followers of Jesus should devote their time and efforts to rallying in support of legislation that would empower business owners to deny services to gay and lesbian people (many of whom are fellow Christians, by the way) or whether, as Andy Stanely puts it, «serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity.

Gay persons desire and need deep and lasting relationships, just as do heterosexual persons, and appropriate genital expression should be denied to neither.

Indeed, if the church encourages responsible sexual expression among gay persons and then denies them its ritual and communal support, it engages in hypocrisy.

For some of the hypocrites who want to deny gay marriage to people in love, here are the words of Paul from the New Testament:

She denied accusations of homophobia, saying: «I will be the minister for gays, lesbians, transgender and heterosexual people.

The very humanity of relatives is denied as they are denied real assistance and separated so that infertile or gay people may have the opportunity to obtain the healthy baby «of their dreams».

But if believers try to invoke their beliefs as a defence for treating other people badly — denying them a service because they are gay or claiming a right to preach at them in a professional context — the law is right to prevent them.

Why should we deny it to people who happen to be gay or lesbian who wish to show that commitment and share it with their family, friends and everybody else?»

Meanwhile Grayling was denied the job of home secretary by Cameron in 2010 after saying that people who ran B&B s in their homes should have the right to turn away gay couples.