Sentences with phrase «discriminate against those citizens»

We are a big and complex country, but that does not excuse us from discriminating against some citizens because of the accident of their birthplace.

The condition discriminates against citizens who don't have a bank account, which is required to receive direct deposit payments.

Each time an Irish government proposes to introduce new rights for gay citizens opponents call for the right of service providers to discriminate against those citizens.

Although these racist provisions were removed by the 1967 referendum, s 25 still remains, which enables States to discriminate against citizens on the basis of their race.

Not exact matches

And yet the Christian right forced through votes in 2 cities here in Kansas that openly allows you to discriminate against LGBT citizens.

And the court has given states broad immunity from being sued in any court for money damages — for example, for infringing a patent or discriminating against older or disabled state employees — even though the Constitution limits this immunity only to suits in federal court by a citizen of a different state.

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?

Doesn't this discriminate against young citizens?

«In so many ways, these changes discriminate against our state, against our economy, against the individual citizens that live in our state,» said Malloy.

This changed during the nineteenth century however, when nationalism swept through and the Armenian Christians began to be considered second - class citizens and discriminated against.

After a few minutes, it appeared to me that he opposed the very idea of Alberta on principle and wasn't at all interested in hearing my argument (based on Ezra Levant's book Ethical Oil) that I'd rather buy my oil from Alberta than from undemocratic regimes like Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iran, or Nigeria; regimes that either brutalize women, exploit the local population, decapitate those convicted of «crimes,» stone adulterers, discriminate against minorities, have no environmental standards whatsoever, or try to govern their citizens as if it's the 8th century and not the 21st.

«The only effect of a positive vote will be to make same - sex couples, and their families, unequal to everyone else; this is discrimination in its rawest form... There is no Massachusetts precedent discussing, or deciding, whether the initiative procedure may be used to add a constitutional provision that purposefully discriminates against an oppressed and disfavored minority of our citizens in direct contravention of theprinciples of liberty and equality protection by Art. 1 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.»