Sentences with phrase «law discriminates against gays»

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He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, the most prominent openly gay executive, assailed a new Indiana law that critics say could make it legal for businesses there to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Critics say the Indiana law — and a pending religious liberty law in Arkansas — gives religious people a free pass to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

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.

That's a lie, they told him he couldn't discriminated against gays and they didn't deny him the permit because it's the law moron.

Any law that discriminates against gays, that prevents women from having abortions, that prohibits gays from getting married, are all based on Christian beliefs — not scientific, not reasoning, just christian religious beliefs.

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.

Ladele and McFarlane's argument was that they should be able to discriminate against gay people, against laws banning discrimination in the provision of goods and services.

In a case that could have wide - ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.

[329] In August 2013, he criticized Russia's law that discriminated against gays, [330] but he stopped short of advocating a boycott of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The mandate is a result of a North Carolina law that discriminates against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

That is not someone talking about just a marriage license, and if Judge Vaughn Walker's reasoning is upheld, it is hard to believe that any law that discriminates against gays would be constitutional.

While Russian officials say the law is meant to protect children and not discriminate against gays, it appears to assume that children can be converted to homosexuality by hearing about it.

They said the law, which makes it illegal to discriminate against gay applicants, went against their beliefs.

Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «Through wide exceptions that exempt religious organisations from significant parts of the law, the Equality Act gives excessive privileges specifically to religious groups, permitting them to discriminate against not only gay and lesbian people but against the non-religious and those of other religions.

Pence's most controversial moment as a national figure — and the biggest stumble of his political career — came after he signed a law in Indiana that critics had warned would allow businesses to discriminate against gay men and lesbians.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and lesbians, even as his administration moved in federal court to defend the law.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lifted a ban on some state - funded travel to Indiana, saying he believes changes made to an Indiana religious - objections law will keep it from being used to discriminate against gay people.

Opponents argued the Langley university's community covenant prohibiting «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman» discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation against gay and lesbian law students and faculty.

No federal law prohibits employers from discriminating against gay, bisexual, or transgender employees, and only 21 states have state - level protection.