Sentences with phrase «gay civil marriages»

Campaigners are today taking their bid to overturn bans against gay civil marriages and heterosexual civil partnerships to the European court of human rights (ECHR).

hingie, I really don't care what you think since my civil marriage has nothing to do with your book of fairy tales and if the main reason you believe gays should be discriminated against is because you read it in your book of myths, then all the more reason to grant gays their civil marriages.

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In September, 2003, Harper said characterizing gay marriage as a civil - rights issue was «disgusting.»

So the fact gay couples are denied equal social and economical benefits of marriage, their civil rights are in violation.

Don't see gay marriage as a civil rights violation.

Civil rights means the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality, there are benefits when you get married gay partnership do not have if they are denied marriage.

Gay Marriage will soon be law as it is a civil right, even if Obama says it isn't.

Don't see gay marriage as a civil rights issue.

He has stated that the government (as in some European nations) should only grant civil unions (to gay * and * straight couples) and that marriage should be left up to the churches.

The gay marriage issue IS a civil rights issue.

I do have compassion for the glbt community, however, but don't support gay marriage; I think civil unions should have been just fine.

I believe that it is the church's responsibility to love, accept, and affirm gay men and women and thereby create a positive environment where their sexuality can be expressed in healthy, monogamous, loving relationships (i.e. marriage or civil partnership).

The democrat platform breaks on issues of gay marriage / civil unions and on abortion.

We should promote gay marriages or civil partnerships because they encourage monogamy, fidelity, and commitment.

Those opposed to gay marriage say it goes against what the Bible says about sexuality, and that same - sex couples already have equal rights via civil partnerships.

I support Religious Marriage and Gay Marriage due to marriage being a civil legal agreement in the US and not just reMarriage and Gay Marriage due to marriage being a civil legal agreement in the US and not just reMarriage due to marriage being a civil legal agreement in the US and not just remarriage being a civil legal agreement in the US and not just religious.

May the Lord bless those who stand for morality of God first, family virtues, and keeping our country free and yes, even civil unions for those of the gay world, but not marriage.

I'd take it a step further and allow gay marriage (or civil unions or whatever the hell you want to call it) in the church.

Considering the fact that a majority of Americans support change in law to allow for gay marriages, civil unions, etc., I would say that Driscoll's supporters are «small but loud».

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 Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, and will decide whether businesses run by religious objectors to gay marriage may refuse to cater a gay wedding.

Were religious people promoting peace when they voted down gay marriage (a civil rights issue, opponents of which will be viewed in the same light as the opponents against civil rights in the 50s and 60s) You are just so comfortable in the majority, you can't see the prejudice and bias you put on people that aren't like you.

The political right is moving back toward individual economic rights, and the younger generations are moving toward individual civil rights like being against substance and gay marriage laws.

With the Latest News now out about the nation's largest Black organization endorsing Gay marriage and calling for an end to the hate and citing the 14th Amendment, Coretta S. King, wife of the very famous Black civil rights leader, would have been immensely happy!

But the newly proposed language on gays and civil marriages represents a «pastoral earthquake,» said one veteran Vatican journalist.

(CNN)- Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's opposition to gay marriage on Wednesday, but suggested in a newspaper interview that it could support some types of civil unions.

Earlier this year, memos obtained by The Human Rights Campaign in a Maine civil actions suit revealed that NOM aims at making gay marriage a wedge issued «between gays and blacks,» according to the released confidential plans.

One of the hot - button issues for the foreseeable future will be the question of homosexuality in general, and civil unions and gay marriage in particular.

Everyone knows that the greatest threat to the «sanctity of marriage» isn't gay marriage or civil unions; it's divorce, which even among evangelicals hovers around 50 percent.

Gay marriage is NOT wrong, they deserve to have the same civil rights as straight couples.

The Civil Rights Agenda has released a statement saying that Chick - Fil - A has agreed to stop donating money to organizations that are against gay marriage.

@YeahRight: I agree; besides, no matter what one quotes, there is still absolutely no reason to deny civil marriage to gay people.

Their endorsement of gay marriage this weekend is really helpful to all gays and lesbians and civil rights.

Arguments for civil gay marriage are one thing, but someone who claims to walk with the Lord suggesting gay marriage before God the Father?

There are many logical and civil reasons to deny gay marriages.

Many sincerely spiritual persons today are pressing for the church's recognition of their life style, whether that be commune living (singles, marrieds or celibates), single living, gay alliances, celibacy, or trial marriages that might be civil before they are religious.

They also have a hard time with not endorsing gay marriage and will lie and say that civil unions do nt provide them the same protection which is a lie and some states do in fact have these laws on the books.

While I personally think gays should have civil rights and be lawfully recognized as domestic partners, I wonder what impact this will have on traditional marriage.

It may be that Maggie Gallagher is wrong to contend that gay marriage will weaken marriage overall, but surely that does not make people like her into «homophobic» activists out to «deny gay and lesbian couples basic civil rights.»

Should gay folks have the exact same civil rights as straight folks, including marriage?

Is America now more morally sensitive, more well structured in its laws and practices insofar as it accepts publicly avowed homosexual behavior; constructs laws that protect homosexuals from the criminal penalties formally attached to homosexual acts; and allows for civil unions or even gay marriages?

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

For gay people it is a civil union and it's not called marriage, although some people still call it this way.

Marriage is certainly viewed as a basic civil right among heterosexual couples, and President Obama believes that same right extends to gay and lesbian couples.

Equality of civil minded gay marriage is in the cards and their hand has here and nowadays been dealt a good hand!

If it did, gay marriage and fear of civil rights wouldn't be calling thousands to the polls with the drum beat behind of religious right.

(Because someone is bound to ask, I've made it pretty clear in the past that I support gay marriage as a civil right, and would hold this position regardless of whether I believed such marriages should be blessed by my church.)

But I also believe that social justice is important given the systemic disadvantages in our country; heterosexual divorce is probably more detrimental than gay marriage; caring for the poor goes a long way toward reducing the «felt need» for abortion; and that setting Biblical morality up as civil law is probably not the way to go in a pluralistic society...

It was God that started marriage so that there would be support for having children and a mother and father so civil unions accomplish the same thing for gays.

Let their be special civil unions for gay people and let them enjoy the same LEGAL benefits as Marriage.