Sentences with phrase «favor civil unions»

I think gay marriage will obviously be an issue for any Republican next year because Republicans are either in favor of the position I'm in favor of, civil unions, or in many cases Republicans don't even favor civil unions.

According to Mr. Biondo, the senator favors civil unions and is opposed on philosophical grounds to lifting the state ban on gay marriages.

Not exact matches

On Saturday, workers voted in favor of including civil disobedience in their efforts to reach a $ 15 - per - hour minimum wage and the right to form a union without fear of retribution from employers.

I am happy to see that the majority of the US population is now in favor of gay marriage and civil unions, and about 75 % of young people are.

The author is in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Thus I remain in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Huntsman is in favor of civil unions for gays.

President Obama is in favor of civil unions for gay couples.

The leaders of two influential unions said today they have no plans to follow the Civil Service Employees Association's strategy of withholding political support from lawmakers who voted in favor of the Tier Six pension overhaul.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly ruled in favor of a habeas corpus petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of two Iraqi men who were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Friday after Trump signed his order.

Paladino said he opposes gay marriage, but is in favor of civil unions.

I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.

Taking some hope that the tide might be changing in their favor, Mildred writes to the Attorney General, Bobby Kennedy, and is referred to Bernard Cohen (Nick Kroll), a lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union.

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions, as if corporate America has done black folk many favors.