Sentences with phrase «laws against gay people»

Only 4 states had specific sodomy laws against gay people.

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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.

Here are the states where you can still be fired for being gay because they don't have explicit laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace.

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.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

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.

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.

Since the implementation of the anti-LGBT law in Russia, violence against LGBT people appears to have increased and includes incidents in which neo-Nazis use social media websites to lure young gay men to torture and beatings.

No, ultimately you are advocating for gay marriage — and the reasons why people are against it — not really important, you simply want it to become the law of the land.

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.

Token... where are you from my dear??? They kill people who are gay in Muslim countries, it is against the law!!!

When saying Merry Christmas has become a bad thing, when we can no longer have the peoples vote counted and respected by judges and elected officials, when health care for aids and other associated dieses is covered, when kids in school have to be subjected to demonstrations of gay bedroom life when the mayor of NY will no longer without reason and against the law rent churches public buildings, when teen pregnancies up 45 percent will be paid for by us the people of the US with all the cost completely covered.

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.

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.

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.

Anonymous Lawyer: «When the BC Law Society accredited TWU, it was in essence an endorsement of the discriminatory practices this private entity engages in and sent a message to the public that discrimination against gay people was ok, even though they are protected under the Charter and even though same - sex marriages are legally recognized.