Sentences with phrase «gay rights law»

ESPA left the field with the key goal of the trans community, the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, unfinished business, after the persistent refusal of the Senate Republicans to take up a measure first proposed in early 2003, when the state's gay rights law was adopted without transgender protections.

Numerous groups and elected officials have honored Roskoff, including the Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights which won the fight for a city gay rights law, PFLAG, the Stonewall Democrats, the Gay and Lesbian Independent Democrats, the Village Independent Democrats, and the city's Black Lives Matter chapter.

Last month, voters in America's fourth biggest city rejected a gay rights law.

The Catholic position had become so clear, indeed, that there had been calls from anti-Catholic quarters for Ms. Kelly to resign, on the basis of rumours that she had been trying to weaken or delay the regulations: as Toby Helm, the Telegraph's chief political correspondent had reported the previous October, under the headline «Kelly «must resign over delay to gay rights law»», «A fierce Cabinet battle has broken out over gay rights after Ruth Kelly, the Communities Secretary, delayed plans that would penalise organisations — such as hotels — for denying their services tohomosexuals.

A 1993 city charter amendment made Cincinnati the only U.S. city to ban enactment or enforcement of gay rights laws until 2004.

And the New Jersey court's equal protection argument begins, Volokh notes, by citing similar non-marriage-related gay rights laws.

Not exact matches

A furor has erupted over an Indiana law that opponents say could give businesses the right to refuse service to gay people.

Star Trek actor and gay rights advocate George Takei wrote on Facebook there could be a boycott of Indianapolis» annual gaming convention, GenCon, over the law.

And perhaps not surprisingly, Cook, who is gay, has been particularly visible on LBGTQ rights issues, coming forward to denounce Indiana and Arkansas state laws that were viewed as discriminatory.

We stand united as San Franciscans to condemn Indiana's new discriminatory law, and will work together to protect the civil rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals.

The companies join gay - rights and human rights groups as well as the American Civil Liberties Union in attacking the law over its broad language, which could be used by business owners to use religious objections to deny same - sex couples wedding.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Protesters in cities around the world targeted major Olympic sponsors Wednesday, just ahead of the Winter Games in Sochi, urging them to speak out against Russia's law restricting gay - rights activities.

One is that while D.C. and Maryland have laws in place protecting gay rights, Virginia does not.

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

zrunner: gay marriage is about equal rights under the law.

A question, as i am curious... Should the «laws» change in relationship to the issue of gay's being allowed marriage, and full equal rights, would you and the Mormon Church come out and «change it's position and say, we are following our government and it's laws which say it (gay marriage) is o.k..

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

The second item this morning is the Times «editorial on the narrow (seven to six) vote by which the Miami - Dade County Commission in Florida approved a «gay rights» law.

So far Rush has been wrong about everything from womans reproductive rights, endangered species, climate change, how laws and bills are actually passed in congress, drugs, alcohol, gay marriage, marriage (what is he on now his 5th?)

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.

This is not about trying to force churches to accept us or to marry us, this is about religion waging a campaign against the gay community to demonize us in order to get their voting congregation to pass laws that deny us equal rights.

It affects us when they pass laws restricting the rights of certain groups such as gays and lesbians.

I know that unfortunately, the universal acceptance of gay marriage and pro-abortion laws will come in our days with or without Obama, as we approach to the end of the age Jesus talks about in Matthew 25 (I wonder if President Obama has read that chapter too); but we don't have to settle right now for a Mormon Priest and President.

Sane people can disagree about whether there ought to be a right to privacy, i.e., about whether it is logically a natural right and if so perhaps ought to be put into the Constitution via amendment, or about whether we (usually at state - level) should pass particular laws, such as ones that legalize gay - marriage, that factually expand what might be called privacy, but no sane U.S. Citizen, gay, straight, liberal, or conservative, should be left ignorant about the Constitution - wounding judicial usurpations done in the name of this right, more of which are planned to be done soon enough.

And nobody cares whether you approve of gay marriage, because it has nothing to do with your beliefs, only with what our laws guarantee us in terms of the rights we have.

Gay pride means changing laws so that same — sex couples receive the same rights and benefits as heterosexual couples and that gays are safe from bashing and can't be fired from their jobs.

Deny gay people the right to come into your home all you want, refuse them sale or service from a business open to the public and advertising products to everyone then you have just violated the law and should have your business license taken away.

The fundamental (excuse the pun) problems with far - right Christianity are exactly the same issues our Savior spoke about to the Pharisees: judgmentalism, hypocrisy, intolerance, and the hyper - extremity of observing the letter of the law rather than its spirit (as evidenced by statements from various preachers that people such gays and disobedient children should be killed).

You may believe the Bible tells you gays should be able to marry or maybe even that blacks should not be able to marry whites (another thing people have used the Bible to protest against); however, that does not mean that US civil equal rights laws should be based on your personal religious beliefs.

The problem is, many laws and policies (e.g. contraception availability, a woman's right to choose, gays in the millitary etc.) are based on this Bronze Age Jewish nonsense.

Are your moralities of gay rights and contraception acceptable to your Moral Law even now?

There is a very simple difference — anti-gay people think they can control other people through law by denying them legal rights...pro - gay people understand that religious people have their rights to believe and worship freely, but not to discriminate against others via the law based on religious beliefs.

Lets see, Chik Fil A donates millions of dollars to groups that attack gay people, fight for laws that strip them of their rights, and even support a bill in the country of Uganda that called for gays to be killed.

Gays do not want total unconditional acceptance, they just want equal rights under the law.

The gay agenda is just so pathetic I have the right to believe that gay marriage is a loser against all natural laws No guy who delivers it to anogher guy will tell me otherwise Marriage is between a man and a woman Call the gay get togethers something else, but not marriage Thank you

If they want to deny Chick - fil - A the right to make a statement against gay marriage, then they are opposing the law that gives gays the right to speak FOR gay marriage.

Because gays, in a gay bar, do not have an impact on laws, society, rights.

A major piece of this court is giving power back to individual states and it generally felt they will ensure states know they can make similar laws if they haven't given gays the right to marry first.

The sticker is a bit tattered, since it goes back to the controversy about «civil unions» — the Vermont law passed in 2000 establishing various legal equivalencies to marital rights for gay and lesbian couples.

Whether it's Nature or it's a choice... since there is -0 - evidence that sincere loving moral gay individuals aren't hurting anyone, why would you want to deny them equal rights under the law?

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If the laws change and gay marriage becomes the law of the land, how would the rights of the minority be protected by President Obama?

ok typo «EVOLVED» into one a gay gene, and it is inevitable, along with all the other mayhem of this society today; with all that is going on in this world, and is why we have such suffering on earth, from disobeying the law of life from YHWH to do right by ourselves, for generations.

I just mean that maybe Christians can compromise by acknowledging that laws evolve and change and to accept that gays want the same rights as married people and to be respectful of that and maybe gays can compromise by not insisting to use the word «marriage» but instead use the word «union» or some other word or phrase to describe their relationship.

The argument for gay rights and anti-discrimination laws depends heavily on asserting the analogy with the civil rights movement, in which skin color is not a choice but an unchangeable given.

U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby issued a 53 - page ruling Friday saying Utah's law passed by voters in 2004 violates gay and lesbian couples» rights to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment.

I want to add: It would be beautiful if instead of fighting against gay - rights laws all people who say they love Jesus would love gays like Jesus loved.

JWT Then if I do nt have the right to make laws that affect you then you surely do nt have the right to make laws that affect me hence no gay marriage thanks.

As to the second part... again, Bob... maybe,... just maybe atheists, agnostics, some christians, and many from other religions, or not believe that what you evangelical theists believe about «gays» and what you are doing to minimize, criminalize, bully, torture,... create laws that show them as not being worthy enough in our society of having equal rights as human beings... maybe we think you guys are absolutely * wrong.

Just as abortion, gay rights, and baseball doping will have no effect on the economy, illegal invaders, the wars we are locked in, or the housing market, neither will the candidate's religious beliefs (counting any religion that advocates the murder of others, the subjugating of women, and the establishment of it's own set of laws — though I have no idea or what major religion would do so...).