Sentences with phrase «legalizing discrimination»

Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer today signed a bill today legalizing discrimination against gay couples who want to adopt children.

«Down one road — a road defined by the commission's failure to put in place meaningful open internet rules — is an internet that looks more like cable TV, one characterized by legalized discrimination, carriage disputes, gamesmanship, and content blackouts which harms consumers.

You get religious îdiots trying to legalize discrimination against gay folks.

Kinda like those «Western Values» where «good christians» seek to legalize discrimination against gay folks?

Why should we be tolerant of religious idiots who seek to legislate and legalize discrimination?

Rights campaigners fear the move will effectively legalize discrimination, while some conservative religious leaders had called for stronger measures to be taken.

They seek to legalize discrimination against gay folks, because they think their version of a god wants them to think gays are icky.

This could just as easily apply to a left wing group, wanting to legalize discrimination against anyone who doesn't agree with them.

But he refused Sunday to answer at least six yes - or - no questions about whether the measure legalizes discrimination against gays and lesbians.

«Employees of the State of New York should not be placed in a situation where they are required to travel to a state where they face legalized discrimination.

We urge you to bar state - funded travel to Indiana, thereby sending a strong message that New York will not stand for legalized discrimination and injustice against LGBT people.»

We urge you to bar state - funded travel to the state of Indiana, thereby sending a strong message that New York will not stand for legalized discrimination and injustice against LGBT people.

Breed - specific legislation not only discourages responsible people from owning certain breeds — even though these are the owners that these types of dogs need the most — but it also legalizes discrimination against, and places extra burdens on, the few responsible people who dare to provide a loving home for a dog of one of these breeds.

Legalized discrimination, much?

The eradication of legalized discrimination and segregation that came with the end of Apartheid in 1994 saw Hlobo and his peers empowered to voice their views under the protection of new laws.

Unless people are into legalized discrimination for only certain groups of people.

Not exact matches

And there could be no doubt of his progressive vision on other fronts as well: South Africa's post-apartheid constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the first country in Africa to do so, and the fifth in the world to legalize same - sex marriage.

The problems arise when you push those beliefs onto the rest of us and legalize hate, bigotry, and discrimination against a group of US citizens because you think your version of a god wants you to think these groups are icky.

The people who vote to legalize and enforce discrimination against gay folks are bigots.

The other point, is that Graham, Cathy, and the other religious nutters want to legalize and legislate discrimination against a group of US citizens simply because the purposefully choose to be ignorant about the science of sèxual orientation.

• Providing for marriage equality for all New Yorkers: To end discrimination against same - sex couples who wish to get married, Governor Cuomo called for the passage of legislation legalizing marriage for same - sex couples, as has been done in many states and other countries.

• Providing for marriage equality for all New Yorkers: To end discrimination against same — sex couples who wish to get married, Governor Cuomo called for the passage of legislation legalizing marriage for same - sex couples as has been done in many states and other countries.

Cuomo, who signed legislation legalizing same - sex marriage in New York into law in 2011, announced that he would sign an executive order prohibiting state agencies and authorities from doing business with companies that encourage or tolerate discrimination.

Mary L. Bonauto, the civil rights lawyer for Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders who was lead counsel in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health — the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case in 2003 that legalized same - sex marriage in the United States for the first time — said the suit asks the court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act because it targets gays and lesbians for discrimination.

Sexual orientation became a prohibited ground of discrimination in the mid-1990s, following which same - sex marriage became legal in Ontario in 2002, and in eight other provinces and territories in rapid succession thereafter, until the introduction of the federal Civil Marriage Act in 2005 legalized same - sex marriage throughout the country.