Sentences with phrase «many gay members»

with regard to the church's view of gay members.

Trump, however, went on to fire several political shots toward his opponents, including his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, who previously turned down an invitation to speak at the Jamboree in protest of the Boy Scouts» policy of disallowing gay members and leaders from joining its ranks in 2013.

I'm Christine's partner and thus the other gay member of Frank's congregation.

However, I respect the honesty and pride that some of these featured Pastors have in disclosing the oppressive and violent tenets of their religous system.Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are oppressive and sometimes violent towards gay members of the human family.

Good said... if I had to choose from kicked people of the military for being GAY or losing people that will not serve with GAY members in the service, well, I prefer losing people voluntarily.

However, we all know someone currently serving in the military as a GAY member.

It's about whether on - campus, university - funded Christian groups should have the right to discriminate against gays and / or gay members.

Those religious groups that are pushing this melodrama are afraid that they might end up with gay members.

I am sure they asked the gay members of their association before they put the flag on the billboards... I find this as a reason to take down the billboards disingenuous.

o «Abrahamics» believe that their god created all of us and of course that includes the gay members of the human race.

«This group seems not to know that there have been black members of the Church since our earliest history, and there are many faithful gay members of the Church today.»

The Boy Scouts of America has been considering a change in its longstanding policy against allowing openly gay members.

Irving, Texas (CNN)- The polarizing debate over whether Boy Scouts of America should allow gay members could culminate with a vote on a new policy Wednesday.

The Washington Post described this ward as consisting of mostly Democrats, half who are nonwhite (including plenty of Spanish speakers), and having openly gay members in its leadership.

Some individual churches are very receptive to gay members and gay clergy, while others, like this minister's congregation, are not.

The Mormon contingent for Sunday's parade wasn't made up of gay members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, but rather straight Mormons who want to show support for gay and lesbians, according to CNN affiliate KSTU - TV in Salt Lake City.

Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank, the longest - serving openly - gay member of congress, has criticized President - elect Barack Obama's choice to have Pastor Rick Warren deliver the invocation at Obama's inauguration.

Though other mainline denominations have opened the doors to the full participation of gay members, the UMC's General Conference spent the last 44 years consistently voting to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and on ordaining non-celibate clergy.

She served as a legislative aide in his office after he was elected in 2008 as the third sitting openly gay member of Congress and the first non-incumbent openly gay man to be elected to serve on Capitol Hill).

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well -LSB-...]

The DCCC sent out an email earlier today alerting supporters to the impending Maloney - Florke nuptials, and noting that Maloney is one of just six LGBT members of Congress and the first openly gay member from New York.

The bill, as you may recall, is being carried by Sen. Tom Duane, a Manhattan Democrat who is the Senate's only openly gay member and also the only member of the Legislature (to my knowledge, anyway) who is living with HIV.

Will, do you have any idea how many gay members make up GOProud and Log Cabin Republicans?

Rep. Carolyn Maloney offered an early endorsement to Quinn in March, as did Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the only gay member of the state's congresstional delegation.

Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who is the only openly gay member of the state Senate, said the law «is an assault on basic civil rights.»

Legislation introduced by Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Senate's only openly gay member, would bar mental health providers from trying to change the sexual orientation of anyone under the age of 18.

Manhattan Democratic Sen. Brad Hoylman, the Senate's only openly gay member and sponsor of a bill aimed at banning conversion therapy, praised the effort to curtail one of «the biggest consumer frauds in history.»

Glick, who is one of a handful of openly gay members of the Legislature, stopped short of calling for Weisenfeld to resign, (the CUNY faculty union has renewed its calls for his removal).

Walzak is a political veteran who has served as a senior aide on the 2012 Senate campaign of Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, the first woman to represent the state in the Senate and as the first openly gay member.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who made history this January when he was sworn in as New York's first openly gay member of Congress, is endorsing City Council Speaker Christine Quinn for mayor.

The speakership was historically held by white men, until 2006, when Christine Quinn became the first woman and first gay member to serve as leader.

The D.C. Council overwhelmingly approved a bill yesterday to recognize same - sex marriages performed elsewhere, in a vote that followed a sharp exchange between an openly gay member and a civil rights champion and set off shouts of reproach from local ministers.

Two other gay members — Johnson and Van Bramer — are also running for the speaker's post.

Detective Brian Downey, a gay member of the NYPD and the force's primary liaison to the LGBT community, has navigated acrimony between the two groups in the wake of the mass shooting in Orlando.

And Democratic Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, the first openly gay member of the Legislature, also spoke out against Graffeo, saying she has «displayed a hostile posture in regard to the LGBT community.»

The most senior gay member of the shadow Cabinet will visit the Tories» European partners to push for homosexual equality.

Daniel Dromm, a Queens Democrat and gay member of the NYC Council, wept at the Irish Consulate Thursday during an announcement that gay and lesbian groups would be allowed to march under their own banner in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

The sponsor of the bill, and the only openly gay member of the state senate.

Schulman's candidacy would be historic, since she is a lesbian and would — if she were elected — be the first openly gay member of New York's congressional delegation.

When the Senate rejected gay marriage in 2009, Alesi toed his party's line, but he held his head in visible distress, in part because it felt like a betrayal of his friend Thomas Duane, the Senate's only openly gay member.

In an interview with public televisions» New York Now, and public radio, Senator Sampson says he «understands» how the President's views «evolved» because he says he went through the same transformation, partly after repeated talks with the Senate's only openly gay members, Senator Tom Duane.

The press conference, organized by the Empire State Pride Agenda, and featuring several out gay members of the City Council as well as City Comptroller Scott Stringer, highlighted what have become familiar benchmarks in the long - stalled effort to win statewide civil rights protections for transgender and other gender - nonconforming New Yorkers.

«For my part, I have worked on LGBT issues with Governor Cuomo for more than a decade, and he was instrumental in helping me become the first openly gay member of Congress from New York,» Maloney said.

Mark - Viverito had the support of the vast majority of elected officials, including three of the six out gay members of the Council: Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer of Queens, Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn, and Ritchie Torres of the Bronx, despite the fact that it is a direct subsidy to schools mostly run by anti-gay religious groups that made up the bulk of those lobbying for it.

Sen. Brad Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat who is the only openly gay member of the state Senate, called the move a «bold and courageous step.»

State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan), the only openly gay member of that chamber, called Feinman an «historic and inspired candidate.»

A gay member of the City Council wept at the Irish Consulate Thursday during an announcement that gay and lesbian groups would be allowed to march under their own banner in the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Senators confirmed a new Court of Appeals judge, Paul Feinman, who will be the first openly gay member of the top court.

Pending results of the general election Nov. 6, Hoylman will take Duane's place as the only openly gay member of the State Senate.

BY ANDY HUMM Four out gay members of the City Council are siding with anti-gay lobbyists in their quest to secure tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars in city funds to pay for school safety officers in religious and other private schools, despite the fact that many of them teach that homosexuality is immoral -LSB-...]