Sentences with phrase «gay rights people»

Are the gay rights people helping orphans?

If you were active in opposing things like gay rights people a hundred years from now will remember you at least as well as we remember slave owners these days.

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.

«Extending the right to religious freedom, clearly designed for an individual person, to a corporation would have repressive consequences to the American workplace,» says Justin Nelson, president and co-founder of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

The company is also very closely tied to right - wing Republicans, including Rebekah Mercer, co-owner of Breitbart News — a publication known for regularly publishing what The New York Times calls» «hate news» — a toxic mix of lies, white - supremacist content, and bullying that can inspire attacks on Muslims, gay people, women, African Americans, and others.»

Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender author who teaches at Barnard College in New York, said in an email that she fears conservatives will now seek to «isolate and marginalize transgender people» and make them feel separated from the broader gay rights movement.

Earlier this week, people browsing Moscow's Red Square via Street View on maps.google.se would have seen a huge black - and - white billboard right next to St Basil's Cathedral stating: «Being gay is normal.»

«[W] orkplace diversity proposals (which mostly concern rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those seeking more diversity among corporate board members) account for 9 percent of the total number of shareholder resolutions filed so far this year.»

Kenney allies routinely bring up his efforts as immigration minister to bring in gay people persecuted in Iraq and Iran, but there's no mention of him expanding or safeguarding LGBTQ rights for those within Canada.

Equality Florida, the largest LGBT rights group in the state, posted the GoFundMe fundraiser shortly after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens more at a gay club in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history Sunday morning.

Any time there is some discussion about «gay rights», some misinformed person always brings up the civil rights movement.

The fact that I enjoy white privilege does not change the fact that there are people who would want the right to fire me or kick me out of my home simply because I'm gay.

That's why so many religious people are working so hard to deny gays and lesbians their civil rights that harms them and their families.

Transport for London was right to ban a Christian group's bus advert suggesting gay people could be helped to change their sexuality, the high court ruled last month.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

Black people want civil right, but they do nt want gays to be involved with «MLK» day???? WTH is that about!

to President Obama's second inaugural, in which he cast the holy places of women's rights, civil rights, and gay rights as the postmodern Bethlehem («We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths — that all of us are created equal — is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall»).

I am in favor of gay rights, it's the word marriage, that I believe people are having trouble with, not gays.

I'm a Christian and discovered the Bible, in it's original text, doesn't condemn gay people but that's ALL right - wing fundies are obsessed over.

im glad no - one believes in demons - the devil or god — and they try to rationalise everything — and discredit the bible — just shows me where we are at in the holy book — see if i remember, the end times come when «scorners and scoffers abound» when — wrong is called right and right is called wrong — and people would be married and given in marriage as in the daysd of noah --- sodom and gammorah had gay issues badly - im just gonna laugh and alaugh and laugh when ya «ll burn - do me a favor — at least read the bible once — see what it says before you — go against it.

There are only individual rights, and they belong to people who are gay just as much as they belong to any individual.

I think that gay people can have civil unions and still get rights.They don't have to get married to get rights.

Gay people are human beings and they have secular rights equal to other people.

Not that I am saying gay people are drug users or gamblers, but those people also feel compelled to gamble or use drugs because the life they have witnessed, does that make it right?

Gay people started wanting the same marriage rights as others so people started being afraid.

a tyrannical government taking the rest of everyone's rights, (not just gays or other races of people).

Let gay people marry and have equal rights!

The Right Reverend Richard Chartres warned that the biggest problem for the Church was that it was «lacking in distinction» and not its attitude to gay people and women.

Fishon, you are probably right about the numbers of churches that specifically ban gay people.

He can champion equal rights for gay people, even if it goes against his personal religious beliefs.

Gay rights campaigner Dan Savage said the idea that churches send out an anti-gay message «totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.&raqGay rights campaigner Dan Savage said the idea that churches send out an anti-gay message «totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.&raqgay message «totally jibes with my experience and that of millions of other gay and lesbian people.&raqgay and lesbian people.»

I will not have the religious right tell me Gay people are an abomination no more than I will have an Athiest tell me I am deluded or unintelligent.

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

Earlier this year the US Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to deny gay people the right to marry.

Left - leaning people are becoming one - issue voters over gay marriage in the same way that right - leaning people make abortion a litmus test.

Perhaps with enough people hammering the issues of abortion and gay marriage, Harris is right to direct her attention and effort to other issues of mercy and justice, but the flavor of the book seems to downplay the importance of traditional marriage, infant life, and the church's role in mercy ministry.

President Barack Obama has come out in personal support of same - sex marriage, has encouraged states to recognize the rights of same - sex couples to marry and even led the movement to abolish Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but he has kept mum on whether or not he believes the Constitution gives gay people the right to marry.

It seems to me that the right - wing of this country is more focused on fire and brimstone issues that divide us like gay marriage and abortion just so they can avoid the fact that their primary reason for their economic platform is to feed people's greed.

People today are so preoccupied with making it illegal to even roll your eye's at the thought of gay marriage meanwhile over the last 10 years the powers that be have removed some of the most basic human rights that even Muslim countries have!

In the present climate, it is for all intents and purposes impossible for a person who publically dissents from gay rights orthodoxies to get a job teaching in higher education.

I agree that the cause of fighting for gay rights is definitely one worth fighting for, I just don't want people grabbing and thumping Bibles to do it — conservative, progressive, liberals or New Agers.

In an age in which divorce is common and many people end up practicing «serial monogamy»» and in an age in which gays have been given rights to marriage it appears strange for people to have qualms about polygamy.

I'm certain that had he lived to see a gay rights movement he would have been marching right alongside them as he did for minorities, the poor and oppressed, because it would have been a civil rights matter for him; a matter of justice for, as he said, ALL of God's people.

Next up: equal rights for gay people and their right to marry whom they love.

Look at every over 40 member of your church and see if any of them are spending more time ministering or discussing Jesus than they are freaking out about their gun rights or gay people or Obama.

If a gay person wants a Christian to photograph his wedding, the gay rights trumps the Christian right to believe.

Because the majority of people disagree, or are opposed to gays having marital rights, doesn't make it «right».

Again and again, Charles hammered home the point that it is not necessary to oppose gay civil rights on Christian principle; but it is necessary to show love and acceptance, because the church has the responsibility of welcoming and sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with all people.

While glad to see the change of attitude among conservative Christians with respect to gay civil rights and acceptance of gays as human beings, some persons were troubled over other aspects of the issue.

David Thorstad, a spokesman for the h0m0s rights movement and NAMBLA, clearly states the objectives: «The ultimate goal of the gay liberation movement is the achievement of s freedom for all — not just equal rights for «lesbians and gay men, but also freedom of s expression for young people and children.»