Sentences with phrase «from discriminating against gays»

Last week, the House and Senate decided to remove a provision in a charter school bill that banned the schools from discriminating against gay students.

No federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against gay, bisexual, or transgender employees, and only 21 states have state - level protection.

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Gay men and lesbian women are physically and psychologically abused, they are excluded from families, frozen out of churches and discriminated against in a variety of legal ways.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge over his claim he was discriminated against.

You are trying to move them from that fear, anxiety, anger, and intensity — prejudice — to simply believing that the Bible absolutely condemns gay sex as sin, that gay Christians need to be celibate to avoid hell, and to only discriminating against those who choose to actually have sex.

I've already heard from a mom whose son came home from the Scout meeting in which he and his friends were informed that the church that sponsored them was pulling their funding because the Scouts no longer discriminate against gay boys.

Any law that discriminates against gays, that prevents women from having abortions, that prohibits gays from getting married, are all based on Christian beliefs — not scientific, not reasoning, just christian religious beliefs.

Already, the conscience division has drawn criticism from civil groups concerned that the protections will be used as a license to discriminate, particularly against gay or transgender patients, as well as from abortion rights groups.

First, Chick - fila - A does not ban gays from its restaurants and no evidence exists that it discriminates against gays as to hiring policies.

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

Backed by gay rights groups, Golinski sued the government, arguing that DOMA discriminates against legally married same - sex couples by depriving them of the same rights, from health benefits to tax status, as heterosexual couples.

Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «Through wide exceptions that exempt religious organisations from significant parts of the law, the Equality Act gives excessive privileges specifically to religious groups, permitting them to discriminate against not only gay and lesbian people but against the non-religious and those of other religions.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lifted a ban on some state - funded travel to Indiana, saying he believes changes made to an Indiana religious - objections law will keep it from being used to discriminate against gay people.

Tellingly, it does not appear that the BC College of Teachers has had much success (if any) in dismissing graduates from TWU from the teaching profession on the grounds that they actually discriminated against gay or lesbian students, which suggest that, in fact, TWU graduates are not generally homophobes.