Sentences with phrase «got civil unions»

We just got civil unions passed in Colorado today.

If everyone (gay or not) gets a civil union and then a marriage, they can then define marriage however they please.

Not exact matches

Call it a civil union to get around the religious technicality of the term and be done with it.

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

If the movement was for civil unions and not marriage, you would fine more Chritians getting on the bandwagon.

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

Everyone gets a legally binding civil union 2.)

The workers» union, CSEA, filed a lawsuit claiming the city violated state Civil Service law by refusing to pay the employee for the time she spent getting the mammogram.

As recently as 2004, Howard Dean's support for civil unions in Vermont made him hero of the left in general and the gay rights movement — which never gets the credit it deserves for financing his early bid — in particular.

«In the absence of any clear direction of the police, people assume that whatever we're getting from the federal level is coming down to the local level,» said Irma Solis, the director of the Suffolk County office of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

He said that he believes that the Town Board can do this for several reasons, despite increasing costs like pensions and insurance rates that are out of their control: «We're getting ready to sit down and negotiate with the CSEA [Civil Service Employees» Union, which represents most Town employees].

The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.

Civil servants, trade unions and MPs get information they should not have every week.

Even though their motion was denied, the New York Civil Liberties Union and James vowed on Wednesday to continue to fight to get the minutes released.

Legislative meetings in Albany are only part of the push to get GENDA over the finish line — an effort in which ESPA, Housing Works, and the New York Civil Liberties Union play prime roles among a broad coalition of labor, faith, women's, business, and law enforcement leaders.

Overall, the ruling is a victory for two New York City advocacy groups that have waged a long campaign to get the patents knocked down: the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the smaller Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), which initiated the effort.

There was a big thing over here in NZ when they finally allowed same sex couples to get married; personally I thought it should have been ok'd back when they brought in the civil unions.

The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) gets interested in their case after Mildred writes a letter to the United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, asking if he can help them out so they can legally live in Virginia again.

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«Schools and administrators don't want to get sued by the [American Civil Liberties Union], so that at times they're squelching the religious expression of students,» said the bill's author, Rep. Sally Kern, a Republican.

«The American Civil Liberties Union got ahold of it,» explained Doyle A. Baker, superintendent of the West Fork district.

No wonder it's nearly impossible to get a civil rights coalition to take on the teacher unions.

In our bizarre newspeak world, the leader of a labor union who tries to force kids to stay in their failing public schools gets a «human and civil rights» award and the Walton Foundation, which gives millions to help free those kids, is vilified.

«They're the ones that have been able to define it as a civil rights issue, or as an issue to get poor kids better education,» said former Connecticut state legislator Jonathan Pelto, who's consulted for unions.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has found an ally in the U.S. Department of Justice for its lawsuit charging that the state abdicated its obligation to ensure all students classified as English learners get extra instructional services to become fluent in English.

Cooper Union's ASCE Student Chapter is dedicated to getting civil engineering students involved in their field, both in school and out of school.

If you want to try for a large firm or be considered by a highly competitive employer, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Sierra Club, or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, get your applications in as soon after December 1 as possible — though most employers will write back thanking you for your application and asking that you send them your first semester grades.

I would still recommend that anyone in a civil union, gay or otherwise, get a medical power of attorney as the beneficiary, something I have harped for years for all of those who have chosen not to be married.

A postnup agreement is a legal contract signed after a couple gets into a civil union or marriage.