Sentences with phrase «marriage debate»

As a politician she has come on leaps and bounds since the gay marriage debate started.

I actually think there are reasonable people on both sides of the same - sex marriage debate.

Perhaps, therefore, the gay marriage debate isn't just about marriage, but must also deal with homosexuality after all.

He has restricted access — denying his followers the ability to freely comment — citing the nasty rhetoric being traded from both sides of the same - sex marriage debate.

The speaker of the House of Commons has reignited the gay marriage debate by suggesting marriage will only really be equal when same sex unions can take place in...

This is certainly true for marriage debates.

As the UK equal marriage debate heated up, I sat in on a meeting between Anna Grodzka, at present Europe's only known transgender MP, and Kate Green, Labour frontbencher with responsibility for equalities.

When even Christianity Today is asking, «Is the Gay Marriage Debate Over?»

«The same - sex civil marriage debate is not about anyone's private behavior,» they claim, «but about legal recognition.

Sensing that the consideration of full personhood might sway the gay marriage debate toward legalization, he suggests we should deliberately move away from speaking of gay and lesbian people as multi-dimensional human beings and instead reduce them to sex acts in order to make others more repulsed by them.

This is a refreshing point of view from a Christian and my not being a religious person will be able to recall this article when having the gay marriage debate with Christians who are against it for religious reasons.

The Washington Post: «Chick fil - A Appreciation Day» announced by Mike Huckabee amidst gay marriage debate After Chick - fil - A President Dan Cathy's comments on marriage launched a national «Eat Mor Chikin» backlash, another cultural bigwig, former Arkansas governor and Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee, announced Sunday that he was coordinating a campaign in support of the «company run by Christian principles.»

During the gay - marriage debate last year in Albany, Bloomberg contributed $ 10,300 to each of 11 state senators who supported the measure at their political peril.

Still, the news shouldn't be wholly surprising for anyone who has followed the evolution of the same - sex marriage debate here in New York or across the country.

Tony Lloyd MP Labour MP for Manchester Central and Labour candidate for police commissioner Gay marriage debate Like Nick Herbert (TP, June), I believe the Conservative Party has moved on and I am expecting a majority of colleagues to support gay marriage.

And this all comes, of course, as Gov. Andrew Cuomo reignited the gay marriage debate by meeting with LGBT advocates today for a «strategy session» on how to get the marriage bill passed during this legislative session.

Sadie Smith faithfully transcribes last week's equal marriage debate for us in full...

Concerned that the civility and decorum exhibited by many LGBT rights advocates might make their arguments more persuasive, Anyabwile suggests that the key to «winning» the same - sex marriage debate is speak more graphically about gay sex in order to induce the «gag reflex.»

Let's see if Labour brings this business - like approach to the continuing gay marriage debate.

You don't think the «elephant in the room» of OUR time is the fact that we awkwardly pretend affirmative action isn't racist; abortion isn't murder; people compare the gay marriage debate to 300 + years of black slavery, oppression, and / or murder; and the major political parties act like Ron Paul doesn't exist?

As recent events in New York show, the marriage debate in America takes place amid serious political and legal fault lines.

The first unfortunate fact is that the gay - marriage debate has morphed into a contest between civil rights versus universal values.

Almost something akin to the gay marriage debate.

She is one of many examples of women preachers from denominations that have not been embroiled in the gay marriage debate, etc..

This should caution us not to write off those who today might be on the wrong side of the marriage debate.

Everything flows from the opening sentence of the book, an expansion of a 2010 article from the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: «What we have come to call the gay marriage debate is not directly about homosexuality, but about marriage.»

By rigorously sticking to the point that the gay marriage debate is primarily about marriage itself, the authors present a powerful argument that deserves a wide hearing.

But the marriage debate is just one earthly battle, one among many that the people of God must wage.

Today those most frequently accused in marriage debates of overthrowing the social order are women and homosexuals.

Striving to reconcile these diverse convictions, Christian scholars just might make what Christian ethicist Sondra Wheeler dubs the «festival of mutual recrimination» in the marriage debate a bit more constructive, even if more demanding.

That shows the kind of commitment to fair - minded discussion that the marriage debate could use more of.

At the root of today's culture - war issues — abortion and euthanasia, the marriage debate, the LGBT insurgency — are competing and, frankly, irreconcilable ideas of the human person.

Today's marriage debate is almost entirely about values in conflict, not values in harmony.

In a closely watched court case, a divided three - judge panel ruled yesterday that Utah's ban of gay marriage is unconstitutional, paving the way to a possible Supreme Court battle that may end America's same - sex marriage debate.

It is very much true of the marriage debate, which shines a bright light on some of the key anthropological fault lines in our culture.

And the gay marriage debate has nothing to do with the church.

In prematurely attempting to finalize the same - sex marriage debate, the Supreme Court has only succeeded in cementing a greater divide among Americans.

But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.

Regardless of which side of the gay marriage debate one happens to embrace, I think a seperate debate can he held on the issue of whether or not children should necessarily be encouraged to attend gay parades?»

[122][123] The day before the convention, the state's four Roman Catholic bishops in a letter to legislators endorsed putting the issue to a popular vote:» [T] he marriage debate should not be reserved only to lawyers and lawmakers.

Even so, the entry of the Human Rights campaign — the biggest and best - financed gay rights group in the country — into the marriage debate in New York is something of a challenge to existing groups, especially the Empire State Pride Agenda.

This isn't the first time Simmons has injected himself into the gay - marriage debate.

All day, advocates on both sides of the same - sex - marriage debate have been chanting, singing, and stomping about the halls of the state house in Albany, hoping to have their voices heard by state senators currently considering the controversial issue.

As ComRes chairman Andrew Hawkins told Reuters when the gay marriage debate was in full swing: «There is good evidence that many UKIP voters are erstwhile Conservatives on the rebound: large proportions are negative about David Cameron and George Osborne on the economy, and about Mr Cameron's handling of gay marriage.»

(Remember: Ball was one of several on - the - fence senators during the same - sex marriage debate and pushed for broader religious exemption language.

The NYS Catholic Conference has blocked some Facebook users from posting on its page during the same - sex marriage debate.

Legislators who voted yes after either stating they woudl vote no or voted no in the failed 2009 vote were subject to intense lobbying during the same - sex marriage debate, not the least of which came from Gov. Andrew Cuomo.