Sentences with phrase «equal in the eyes of the law»

When their peaceful protest actions fail to achieve real progress, the women become radicalized, turning to vandalism and violence in a desperate attempt to be recognized as equals in the eyes of the law.

While it's progress for same - sex couples to be equal in the eyes of the law, a civil right step forward shouldn't equal a financial step backward.

All citizens, regardless of sexual orientation, stand equal in the eyes of the law.

The shared custody model for Texas child visitations is a big step towards treating both parties as equal in the eyes of the law, and not automatically favouring the mother in these matters as was typically the case in the past.

Not exact matches

To anybody reading this who falls into one of those federally protected groups: Remember that if it wasn't for those laws, you could just as easily be told that you're not equal in their eyes (but I'm sure your money still would be).

And yet, if same - sex marriage is to be truly equal to natural marriage in the eyes of society and the law, then all the rights and privileges of marriage — including those involving the procreation and rearing of children — must in principle belong to both kinds of marriage, irrespective of the motives impelling a couple toward marriage or whether, once married, they exercise these rights and privileges.

Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples «ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law.

The Lib Dems also undertake to place on homophobic chanting on an equal par with racist chanting in the eyes of the law, which makes sense.

Hanging in chains was a very different sort of post-mortem punishment from anatomical dissection, although the two were equal alternatives in the eyes of the law.

It's time to make rats equal in the eyes of animal cruelty laws.

The 2004 Act ended generations of inequality by giving same - sex couples not only the right to have their relationship recognised in the eyes of the law but also to equal rights with those of married couples regarding tax, property, death and other matters.

From its inception, the Federal Government has been directed to treat all its citizens as having been «created equal» in the eyes of the law.

In the eyes of the law a marriage is an equal partnership.