Sentences with phrase «discriminate against marriage»

Some — like our own - discriminate against marriage and family formation more than others.

Not exact matches

LONDON — A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same - sex marriage.

LONDON (AP)-- A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same - sex marriage.

That ruling struck down an 1883 decision in which the Court held that a law against interracial marriage did not discriminate against either race.

Amazon has been a champion for the LGBT community as early supporters of the Equality Act, backers of marriage equality campaigns, and active voices against legislation that discriminates against transgender people in states across the country.

Considering that (if memory serves me correctly) 50 % of all straight marriages end in divorce, discriminating against alternative forms of marriage and lifestyles which might be more solid and long lasting for others does seem a tad hypocritical.

So if you support gay marriage, then you must disagree with those states that discriminate against it, right?

have once again tried to sink the country so they can go back to their celebrated past of beating slaves, discriminating against women, banning interracial marriage and continuing their persecution of same gender couples.

(CNN)- On March 24, World Vision announced that the U.S. branch of the popular humanitarian organization would no longer discriminate against employees in same - sex marriages.

Complainants, a same sex couple, alleged that they were unlawfully discriminated against when Respondent refused to perform their marriage.

Laws against same sex marriage discriminate, and with that create real victims, without preventing any harm.

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

hingie, I really don't care what you think since my civil marriage has nothing to do with your book of fairy tales and if the main reason you believe gays should be discriminated against is because you read it in your book of myths, then all the more reason to grant gays their civil marriages.

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.

> > Some conservatives, who find themselves in the minority with their > opposition to gay marriage and clergy, see themselves as being > discriminated against.

The owners were found to have discriminated against a customer based on his sexual orientation after they refused to make a cake which said «support gay marriage».

The «in your face,» noisy proclamations are an attempt to assert the atheist's rights to not be discriminated against via public support of religion, usually Christianity, e.g. stem cell research, gay marriage bans, creationism in science class, etc..

That is not someone talking about just a marriage license, and if Judge Vaughn Walker's reasoning is upheld, it is hard to believe that any law that discriminates against gays would be constitutional.

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.»

Back then, there was no same - sex marriage, and there was not even a law against discriminating against New Yorkers based on their sexual orientation.

Also, it would mean that those same businesses and individuals could legally discriminate against a mixed marriage (e.g., Jew and Christian, or Black and white).

Mr. Stringer has been using his office and public funds to screen out those not in favor of same - sex marriage, denying them employment in his office, violating the law and discriminating against people of faith who reject marriage between same - sex people.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and lesbians, even as his administration moved in federal court to defend the law.

Could you imagine, my dear reader, even though everyone knows that Governor Cuomo is the biggest proponent of same - sex marriage in New York State, he does not discriminate against anyone who opposes it.

why should I be discriminated against and not allowed to marry because George Amedore is opposed to homosexual marriage....

The Christian owner of a B&B in Berkshire was found to have discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to allow them stay in a double - bedded room because of her belief that all sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong.

An integral aspect of UK labour law is that it is unlawful to discriminate against a person based on their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.

First, the legal rights that marriage has long conferred were seen to discriminate against those who could not legally marry.

The proposed change comes shortly after a Tribunal decision that found that a marriage commissioner had discriminated against a same - sex couple by declining to marry them.

Registration — refusing to accredit professional programs, in the public interest: Courts in three provinces have moved forward to address the power of law societies to refuse to accredit a Christian law school, based on a public interest concern about the school requiring students to sign a covenant abstaining from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman — a covenant that would effectively discriminate against students of certain sexual orientations.

Lawyers and campaigners have served up a mixed reaction to a ruling that the owners of a Belfast bakery unlawfully discriminated against a customer by refusing to decorate a cake with the slogan, «Support Gay Marriage».

One of the cases being heard in Belfast will be Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd, in which the Justices will hear arguments on whether a bakery directly discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation when the bakery said they could not fulfil an order for a cake with «Support Gay Marriage» written on it because of their religious beliefs.

Opponents argued the Langley university's community covenant prohibiting «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman» discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation against gay and lesbian law students and faculty.

To this day, however, laws governing property rights during marriage retain outmoded and archaic common law concepts about ownership, possession, and control of marital property that discriminate against women.