Sentences with phrase «gay marriage law»

The opportunities will grow as more and more states push for gay marriage laws.

It would however be helpful to have a united front to fight against religious based legislation (like anti gay marriage laws), but it's like trying to heard cats.

There has been a small turn to the left in the last few years, due to changes in social policy such as gay marriage laws.

Diaz, who has served for almost two decades as state senator of The Bronx's 32nd District, cast the sole Democratic vote against the state's gay marriage law in 2011, and last year invited Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to The Bronx.

Do you mean organizations that lobby against gay marriage laws?

Across the street from hers was a larger, louder rally denouncing the proposed gay marriage law.

Five states, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Iowa and Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia have approved gay marriage laws.

Following the repeal earlier this summer of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, our Northwest Indiana divorce lawyers theorized that Indiana's own gay marriage laws might soon be challenged.

He cast the senate's sole Democratic vote against New York State's gay marriage law in 2011, later saying he believes marriage is «between a man and a woman,» and said that he was «honored» when Cruz accepted his invitation to visit The Bronx in April 2016, shortly before New York's presidential primary.

In last night's elections two states passed gay marriage laws, two states legalized marijuana for recreational use, and an openly gay woman was elected to the US Senate.

It is this Catholic classicism that provided the main leaders for the massive, articulate resistance to Christiane Taubira's gay marriage law, leaving commentators of a reconstructionist bent sputtering epithets, dumbfounded and afraid of the energies hidden in the country they thought they knew.

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.

... «I'm in favor of gay rights and in any case, I also favor civil unions for homosexuals, but I believe that Argentina is not yet ready for a gay marriage law,»» said Marquez, a gay rights activist, a self - described devout Catholic and a former theology professor at a Catholic seminary.

The governor successfully passed a gay marriage law and lobbied for women's rights.

The last year was filled with significant news stories in New York like Occupy Wall Street, the election of Governor Andrew Cuomo, the passage of the gay marriage law, and the Zadroga 9/11 Healthcare Act.

Dolan said the bishops were comforted when Cuomo, a Catholic, said he is fervently supportive of religious freedom and committed to making sure the gay marriage law doesn't infringe on that.

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.»

Ten days before Albany approved the state's gay marriage law, it held a City Hall press conference claiming there were between 30 and 32 firm votes against the measure.

It took him to anti-marriage equality actions, including an 11th hour rally at City Hall just days before the state gay marriage law was enacted.

Complicating matters further, the last remaining Republican who helped Cuomo win the gay marriage law in New York, Mark Grisanti of the Buffalo area, lost a primary and is running for election against the Democratic candidate as an independent.

Two town clerks recently resigned due to the passing of the gay marriage law in New York, and Brown believes this is just the beginning of problems for those opposed to the law.

In her resignation letter, which you can view here, Sheldon said the gay marriage law passed in June by the Legislature and promptly signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo «violates my conscience and my faith.»

Whether this now prompts legal challenges or referendums, Andrew Cuomo will now be forever marked as the governor who politically forced a gay marriage law on the people of New York State without bothering to draw a more honest consensus from the population.

New York's top court today refused to hear an appeal challenging the state's gay marriage law.

Extremely ambitious and popular since his days as attorney general, he's got the makings of a presidential prospect — heck, we've already speculated about whether he is the 2016 frontrunner — and broke nationally in a major way by shepherding the state's new gay marriage law to passage.

McGuire said he believes the state religious freedoms exemptions in the gay marriage law does not go far enough and could be a violation of the US and state constitutions.

He cast the sole Democratic vote against the state's gay marriage law in 2011 and last year invited Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to The Bronx, yet still enjoys support from the Bronx Democratic County Committee.

Diaz, an ordained minister who has served as state senator of The Bronx's 32nd District for more than two decades, was the sole Democratic vote cast against the state's gay marriage law in 2011.

Legislators key to passage of the gay marriage law last month also saw big contributions from gay marriage supporters, according to the state Board of Elections filings.

Gay marriage laws have subsequently passed in Maryland and Washington state.

Schneiderman filed papers with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, two days after gay marriage became legal in New York State and a day after he was named among the defendants in a lawsuit by a conservative group seeking to overturn the state's gay marriage law.

He wants protections that will allow a religious group to observe its principles without conflicting with a gay marriage law.

Diaz cast the sole Democratic vote against the state's gay marriage law in 2011, and last year invited Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz to the Bronx, yet he enjoys support from the Bronx Democratic County Committee.

Addabo provided one of several votes needed to pass the gay marriage law, which Cuomo championed last year.

With last year's rejection of a gay marriage law by the state Senate, a domestic partnership ceremony «is a good gesture,» agreed Councilman James Van Bramer (D - Queens).

As defence secretary in 2013 he attracted criticism by talking about «a real sense of anger among many people who are married» who felt the gay marriage law would change the institution.