Sentences with phrase «discriminate against gay people»

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lifted a ban on some state - funded travel to Indiana, saying he believes changes made to an Indiana religious - objections law will keep it from being used to discriminate against gay people.

And as soon as you ask the question, and you probe the answer, the only answer [by those opposed to the gay marriage bill] is «I want to discriminate against gay people.»

Ladele and McFarlane's argument was that they should be able to discriminate against gay people, against laws banning discrimination in the provision of goods and services.

It opens the door for someone to discriminate against gay people because of their views on the subject, or so any of thousands of religious based nonsense.

The public does not have to subsidize their personal choice to discriminate against gay people.

It sounds like what you want is for people to not call you a bigot when you discriminate against gay people.

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He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

They expect people to stand up for them when they are discriminated against, but they find no problem with discriminating against gays and lesbians.

Gay people are discriminated against, but what does this article have to prove?

«I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against — and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying «motivated by faith»)-- because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong.»

It discriminates against gays, women, and people that didn't get exposed to its God.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

Critics say the Indiana law — and a pending religious liberty law in Arkansas — gives religious people a free pass to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

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.

It's not Catholics started the Inquisition, systematically protected kiddie - rapists, discriminate against women and gay people, or force congregants to pay their way into heaven... oh yeah, that's exactly what Catholicism is all about.

And regardless of what anybody says, the only reason people discriminate openly against gay people this way is because of religion.

Please name one and while you're at it... name one incident where Chick - Fil - A has discriminated against, refused to serve or hire or otherwise ill - treated a gay person.

I have several gay family members, but I have no problem with people who's beliefs are different (as long as they are not discriminating against others) I also know several openly gay / lesbians that work for Chick - fil - A and have felt very comfortable there, at least until others started causing an uproar.

What I meant to say is that the religion of a candidate will certainly influence his politics — how could someone who's religion discriminates against a «gay lifestyle» pass legislation that supports gay equality and abolishes the second - class citizen status of gay people?

Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.

He's rendered himself unelectable on a national scale - how could he possibly appeal to ANY minorities at his point, including gay people (after his AG Cuccelli wrote a memo essentially saying VA Universities could discriminate against gays?).

This is part of a victimhood narrative in which, it is said, people are being penalised «for being Christians» (read: for discriminating against gay clients) in various roles such as registrars, relationship counsellors, would - be adopters, and hotel proprietors.

Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «Through wide exceptions that exempt religious organisations from significant parts of the law, the Equality Act gives excessive privileges specifically to religious groups, permitting them to discriminate against not only gay and lesbian people but against the non-religious and those of other religions.

The special exemptions enshrined in the Act to permit organised religions to treat lesbian and gay people unkindly, unfairly, and discriminate against them are so wide that the legislation itself may even be in breach of European equality legislation.