Sentences with phrase «makes civil unions»

However, marriage is also a contract which makes civil unions a right for everyone.

«What I'd like to do legislatively, on the federal level — and I think we'll be able to do this with the new president — is actually make civil unions legal in all 50 states, make it the law of the land.

Not exact matches

Will the SEC take this opportunity to clarify that same - sex couples in civil unions, domestic partnerships, and similar legal relationships intended to give them at least some of the economic benefits of marriage, are «spouses» to one another, and thus eligible for the alternative accredited investor qualification standard made available to persons who are married (with the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA, it is already clear that persons in same - sex marriages are «spouses» to one another)?

Nevertheless, he decried, and actually seemed surprised by the fact that the jargon, presumptions, odor of sanctity, and especially the legal tools left over from the civil rights movement's glory years, now three generations past, are being used to sanction homosexual unions and in general make of non-heterosexuals yet another legally privileged group.

The only thing the state should regulate or define is the legal contract between two consenting adults to form a civil union, and that should be made available to any two consenting adults regardless of gender.

Indeed, a few of the headings in the Relatio itself were none too comforting vis - à - vis «positive aspects of civil unions and cohabitation» and the extensive discussion on making the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist available to the divorced and remarried.

In European Union law, civil law of most member states and judge - made law in the United States, the right to marry has been «modernized» so as to include partnerships and same - sex unions.

NC voters your anti-gay amendment will go farther than any other bigot law has gone, making even civil unions and domestic partnerships illegal.

These derive from European Union Directives, developed by the European Commission (the civil service of the EU) and approved by the European Council (made up of representatives of Member States) and the European Parliament.

4) Facilitation / Divorce Co-ordinator (Couples / Family): Facilitation can be used to resolve any type of family dispute — divorce (financial aspects, contact and care, rights and responsibilities in respect of the parents to the children, holiday contact, maintenance issues), post-divorce disputes (ongoing contact, disputes with regard to joint decisions to be made between the parties etc), maintenance, permanent relationship or civil union disputes, relocation matters, testamentary division.

The state's highest court will decide whether to make NYPD disciplinary records public in a case filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union with the support of multiple news organizations.

Donovan has made it clear he personally opposes gay marriage, but supports civil unions — a position his campaign has repeatedly noted he shares with Democratic President Barack Obama.

In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.

The New York Civil Liberties Union also opposed the convention, making them unlikely allies with the city's police unions.

But a statement from Chafee in 2004 at the time the Federal Marriage Amendment was rejected indicates he supported civil unions and believed each state should be free to make its decision on the issue.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month announced the state would not defend a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union against a constitutional provision that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to unionize.

Criticism is made of civil servants who acquiesced in the union vested interests but equally he praises those who helped him — no blanket condemnation of experts — please note Michael Gove.

Discussing the legislation, Robert Perry, legislative director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) said, «This is a complex regulatory scheme that requires nonprofits to report not only the donations they make but that they receive, as well as their communications on issues that are important to the public.

Kathy Zabinski, president of the Civil Service Employees Association, said last week that union lawyers were reading the plan to make sure it didn't constitute as age discrimination, but she didn't have any concerns about it.

It's a huge coalition, and it really illustrates the old cliche that politics makes strange bedfellows because you have the New York Civil Liberties Union, some reform groups, some environmental groups, and then you have the Conservative party, gun rights groups, they're all together on this, saying that they don't want a constitutional convention.

As the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) said: «[Governor Cuomo's closed door] legislative process makes a mockery of the core democratic principles of transparency, accountability, and public participation in government.»

In the Reconstruction following the Civil War, later Union leaders like Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's successor), made only half - hearted efforts to really deeply assimilate the formerly Confederate states into the Union and when Reconstruction ended Confederate and white supremacist sympathies remained strong.

The bill will also make some non-profits identify large donors, a move the New York Civil Liberties Union worries will discourage people from donating to groups involved in controversial advocacy, such as Planned Parenthood or gun rights groups.

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.

Opposing Intro 65 were the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), which called it «unconstitutional,» Make the Road, the United Federation of Teachers, the Council of School Supervisors & Administrators, the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Stonewall Democrats of New York, and others.

The Let NY Vote coalition is made up of over thirty organizations, nonprofits, and labor unions, including Common Cause / NY, Public Citzen, New York State United Teachers, SEIU 32BJ, RWDSU, CWA District 1, as well as the statewide NAACP and National Action Network, civil liberties, reproductive and immigrant rights, criminal justice and re-entry groups, New American, and the LGBTQ community.

When I listen to someone like her, it really makes me think» — but, in mid-May, he wasn't sure he could go along with more than civil unions.

Donna Lieberman, Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement, «We applaud Governor Cuomo for taking the bold step of removing New York State from the Secure Communities initiative, which, despite its name, has become a sore subject for those who work day and night to make our neighborhoods safer.

The official also said Mr. Paterson had not yet ruled out breaking the no - layoffs pledge, which he made last June as part of a deal with the Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employees Federation, the two largest unions of state workers.

Talk of coordinated union action over pensions may be unachievable therefore, if the government makes concessions to the unions in the local authority scheme, but not to teachers, civil servants or the NHS.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about a federal investigation into payments made to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver by a small law firm and Albany County legislature rejecting a proposed settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit about the county under representing minorities in the redistricting plan.

On Tuesday evening, The Times Union reported that Cuomo has empowered Schwartz under the Moreland Act, giving him «the power to issue civil subpoenas,» which the Cuomo administration confirmed, though it still declined to make any documentation public.

The state's highest court will decide whether to make NYPD disciplinary records public in a case filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union with the support of news organizations including The New York Post.

The Civil Service Employees Association, one of the most powerful unions in Albany, makes no apologies for its vigorous defense of the group - home workers it represents.

Chris Grayling was disingenuous on today's Any Questions when supporting Kitty Usher and Menzies Campbell in wanting to tamper with one of the cornerstones of the Post Civil war Settlement - he did not tell the audience he was a Catholic in favour of a measure to benefit Catholics - one with constitutional implications (it is the basis of the 1707 Act of Union with Scotland)... that was very disappointing and makes Chris Grayling suspect in a way David Davis was not

The red carpet may have been a melange of colours, but the political undercurrent was hard to miss with Time's Up pin, blue American Civil Liberties Union ribbons and orange American flag pins calling for gun safety reforms in the wake of Florida school shooting, making their way into designer wears.

Most obviously, union contracts and civil service rules make it next to impossible to fire low - performers, whether they be central office bureaucrats, principals, teachers, or aides.

Especially when it comes to the donations the union makes to supposedly like - minded progressive and old - school civil rights groups.

Edgar also worked as the policy director for Californians for Justice where he partnered with organizations like California Teachers Association, Ed - Trust West, and the American Civil Liberties Union to make state Local Control Funding Formula regulations more inclusive of the community.

Kathy Sher of the American Civil Liberties Union told lawmakers that while the bill is well - intentioned, putting guns in schools in the hands of school resource officers or anyone else will make schools less safe, not more so.

intends to introduce legislation to make union organizing a «civil right.»

Two Orange County charter schools said they will make changes to their websites, and other campuses are reviewing their policies in light of a recently released report from the American Civil Liberties Union that claims hundreds of California charter schools create unfair hurdles for underprivileged students.

Footnote 1Information on this page was compiled from a variety of sources including New York Police Department (March 2005 - March 2008), Operational Commands Performing Enforcement Functions; The United Federation of Teachers; Mayor's Management Reports (2005 - 2008); Insideschools.org; New York Civil Liberties Union (March 2007), Criminalizing the Classroom: The Over-Policing of New York City Schools; Annenberg Institute for School Reform, New York Civil Liberties Union and Make the Road New York (July 2009), Criminalizing the Classroom: Alternatives to the Over-Policing of Schools; and original research by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

«It shouldn't take a lawsuit to make the DOE follow the law,» said New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman.

Yeah, the fucking bastards, damn the International Civil Aviation Organization for ensuring aircraft can communicate in the countries they travel between and don't collide, curse the International Maritime Organization for allowing the same benefits to ships and assisting navigation at sea, screw the Universal Postal Union for ensuring that post can be sent between countries and reach it's destination okay and fuck the International Telecommunication Union for assigning things like country codes so that people in different countries don't have different numbers making international phone systems incompatible.

1) Question: Our high school wants to display the Ten Commandments but the local American Civil Liberties Union is now making a huge stink about it.

In late fall 2013, CCLA joined the American Civil Liberties Unions, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, in making an application to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal UK, under Section 7 of the Human Rights Act 1998, with respect to Tempora (the United Kingdom's -LSB-...]

In the US, the European Union and other jurisdictions, damages in private civil case are frequently enhanced, such as treble damage awards in the US, or made easier to prove.

Even as another UN-based agency with weak civil society presence, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), moves forward to expand its regulatory oversight of Internet policy issues, the WIPO broadcast treaty prove once again that bad governance makes for bad policy outcomes.

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