Sentences with phrase «gay lobby groups»

So forget separation of church and state, gay lobby groups are going directly after private groups now too, trying to tell them what they can and can't do.

«The leading gay lobby group, Stonewall, supports this discriminatory legislation, claiming that homophobic and transphobic harassment are not significant problems and can be dealt with under existing legislation.

Stonewall, the mainstream gay lobby group, said: «We're desperately disappointed.

Ministers and most gay lobbying groups were furious at what they saw as wrecking tactics supported by Lords Tebbit and Parkinson, as well as some homophobic clerics.

Not exact matches

For instance, the SPLC documents its decision to include the Family Research Council by citing the evangelical lobbying group's promotion of discredited science and unsubstantiated attacks on gay and lesbian people.

But according to Senator Gavin Marshall, chairman of the «Left federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus,» writing in The Age, Gillard's decision to allow a «conscience vote» on «gay marriage» is «not democratic,» because it «exposes individual parliamentarians to powerful conservative lobby groups» and the retrograde opinions of those «stubbornly opposed to all social reforms.»

So I embraced atheism and gay human rights activism, becoming part of a group which successfully lobbied for a clause banning discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation in South Africa's postapartheid constitution.

The groups that support gay rights should discover these «lobbies» that people seem to imply so much.

Civil partnerships have not yet been adopted in Guernsey, although gay rights groups are currently lobbying for their introduction.

Alan Van Capelle, the executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda (ESPA), the state's LGBT lobby group, and out gay Chelsea Democratic Senator Thomas K. Duane, the measure's lead sponsor, both reiterated their confidence in the wake of an election in which a Republican marriage equality supporter was forced from an upstate congressional race and voters in Maine narrowly opted to repeal the gay marriage law there.»

Ruffalo, a Hudson Valley resident who has been active in lobbying on several issues this year — in favor of gay marriage and against hydrofracking in the Marcellus shale — appears in a Web video paid for by New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, the labor - backed group that has long advocated for a more progressive tax structure.

The clause has divided gay rights groups, with Stonewall, a more mainstream lobby group with close ties to the government, accepted the exclusion.

The group, which lobbied against the bill heavily in the weeks and months leading up to the vote, said the fund is being set up for town clerks like Laura Fotusky, the Barker, Broome County official who resigned rather than approve gay unions who could face «harassment, denial of rightful promotion, or unfair termination.»

Mark - Viverito had the support of the vast majority of elected officials, including three of the six out gay members of the Council: Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, despite the fact that it is a direct subsidy to schools mostly run by anti-gay religious groups that made up the bulk of those lobbying for it.

«Brian Ellner, who until this week worked for the New York City Department of Education, will oversee the Campaign for New York Marriage, which is to be financed by the Human Rights Campaign, a lobbying group for gay rights based in Washington.

• During last year's contentious battle in the State Senate over the failed gay - marriage bill, while Governor Paterson, Kirsten Gillibrand, Christine Quinn, and even Chuck Schumer lobbied on behalf of the bill, Cuomo was virtually silent, not even bothering to get three wavering state senators on the phone when asked to do so by gay groups.