Sentences with phrase «equality under the law»

While i can't speak for everyone else, I am for equality under the law for gays.

They also found that the move would effectively end equality under the law and leave some of the most vulnerable people in society without legal representation.

«For the civil rights community, data provide the power to advocate for greater equality under the law,» the groups said.

Can you see why equality under the law and equal rights for everyone means throwing out the bias of religion, as none of them agree with the others on anything.

Who defines equality under the law, does the right to display openly a persons faith and a persons right to not have to hear it, either side have ultimate standing?

Supporters of gay marriage claim equality under the law for same - sex couples will not be complete until civil partnerships are replaced by «marriage», however.

Yes, anyone can sue anyone for anything at any time - that's what equality under the law means.

I am arguing for equality under the law here, Mark.

How do you respect people that * believe * you don't deserve equality under the law like everyone else, because they think you are less than, or a sinner, etc...

However, nowhere was this powerful belief in equality more clear than at Monday's «Equality and Justice Day» rally in Albany, where citizens from across our state came together and demanded equality under law in one unified voice.

I agree with you on some ideas you have, but disagree with most of your assessments regarding my motives, tactics, strategy, and application of my personal viewpoints on equality under the law.

This is about law, about justice and fairness, about equality under the law and our civil and human rights goddammit!

How about the fact that the Mormon Church went into partnership with the Catholic Church and encouraged... «strongly» their congregations to «vote» out any piece of legislation that creates equality under the law for gay's.

All we have in the USA is the Constltution to give us a tendency towards equality under the law, but the laws are unequally enforced, biased against non-believers, and a very shaky crutch upon which to rest our freedoms and rights.

It was judges - not parliament - who saved equality under the law from the justice secretary's assault

«How would he respond if someone endorsed a candidate who said Dominicans or Latinos didn't deserve full equality under the law?

Knowing David Paterson throughout his Senate career, Geto told Gay City News that one of the new governor's guiding political principles was «that gaining equality under the law for blacks was the civil rights battle of his father's generation, but that achieving full equality of opportunity for LGBT people is the core civil rights battle of his own generation.»

«It's disappointing that any candidate for Attorney General would believe that equal justice and equality under the law applies to some New York State citizens and not to all,» said Assembly Member Matt Titone (61st AD - Staten Island).

Co-sponsored legislation to strengthen Ulster County's human rights laws to ensure that ALL people are protected and given equality under the law.

We have gone beyond mere symbolic unity, and enshrined equality under the law through our Charter.

The symbols of endurance and equality recall the injustices endured before equality under law was achieved.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

We are supposed to have equality under the law here in the USA.

Chris Grayling, the lord chancellor who this week was accused by the high court of actually trying to end equality under the law.

These groups, including the NAACP, the National Urban League, and National Council of La Raza, were wholly right and justified when they said that «data provides the power to advocate for greater equality under the law.»

You might have fun saying that the problem here is that «things didn't go my way», but my way is equality under the law for everyone regardless of race, creed, disability, etc..

Emancipation might have been delayed for decades if a minority of diehard idealists had not made such a fuss insisting on a philosophically consistent application of the ideals of liberty and equality under the law.

Every encroachment and violation of the First Amendment by religious groups violates my rights to religious freedom and violates my equal rights to equality under the law.

I was talking about the rule of law and equality under the law.

but now, he want's to condem a group of people and say that they can have equality under the law... that is the epitome of hypocracy!

Yet all these things violate your rights and my rights to religious freedom and equality under the law.

We live in a country where we have a fundamental commitment to equality under the law and to freedom, and that's a very precious commitment to our liberal democracy and our traditions, but there's been growing up in our midst an alternative system, which affects many citizens, especially women.

Liberalism's defenders fear that any compromise of liberal principles will result in the resurgence of religious warfare, the re-enslavement of various populations, the loss of the independence of women, and the abandonment of rights and equality under law.

Inviolable human dignity, constitutional limits upon central power, and equality under law are part of a preliberal legacy.

The conception of inviolable human dignity, of constitutional limits upon central power, of equality under law, and of the free exchange of goods and services in markets is, again, part of a preliberal legacy.

Do you not respect the rule of law or equality under the law?

But the government can and must be color - blind — as in «equality under the law.»

Witness the successful US civil rights movement (clearly for equality under the law & an end to segregation) compared to the ultimately unsuccessful 70's / 80's CND campaigners (against atomic weapons but no coherent or sensible pro-position on anything).

This concept is related to the ideas of «equality under the law» and «rule of law».

The fight for equality under the law, argued advocates, had not ended with the advances made in the civil rights movement, but was still an ongoing battle, as current as ever.

Particularly impressive is a bewigged Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens, intent on getting the amendment through, albeit by compromising in his language to the House: he agreed that he was in favor of giving «Negroes» equality under the law but not necessarily equality with whites as human beings — which sounds like splitting hairs.

Those that hold religious beliefs may attend law school as they have equality under the law.

Since this system operates in courts, fairness, equality under the law, truth, and efficient processes are essential parts of online dispute resolution.

I am hoping that the court «s role in this case will strike at the very existence of an absolute immunity under two guiding principles: equality under the law (especially when the alleged wrong has been committed by a person who should be held to the highest standards of conduct in exercising a public trust; and any infringement of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms constitutes «improper purpose» aimed at gaining a private collateral advantage.

On April 17, 1982, Canada enshrined those protections in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, declaring that equality under the law is fundamental to the quality of life of its citizens.