Sentences with phrase «new gay equality»
Tony Blair has confirmed Catholic adoption agencies will not be exempt from new gay equality legislation, saying there was «no place» for discrimination in Britain.
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«Before new sexual orientation laws, guaranteeing equality in goods and services for the gay community were introduced in April 2007, Archbishop Nichols said the legislation contradicted the faith's «moral values».
Both her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and her daughter, Chelsea, announced their support for gay marriage in recent years, and Chelsea Clinton was active in the push for marriage equality here in New York.
She spoke as Culture Secretary Maria Miller, who is also the Minister for Equalities, announced that the Church of England and the Church in Wales will be excluded from the government's planned new law to allow gay couples to marry.
Some insight into yesterday's bitter New York Senate marriage equality defeat from Gay City News about what happened yesterday: There was widespread speculation that at best 28 or 29 Democratic votes could be secured, which meant at least three R... Read
Sen. Stachowski's voted against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) New Yorkers at every turn, whether it's nondiscrimination protections or marriage equality.
At the beginning of September I posted about a gay fundraiser for the Republican senators in New York who supported marriage equality.
He goes on to points out that Democrats are as much to blame as Republicans, noting that although Governor Andrew Cuomo supported marriage equality in New York, his recent actions, including budget cuts, have diminished the rights of all workers, be they gay or straight.
With President Bill Clinton in his corner, Sean Patrick Maloney, who is gay, is doing everything he can to defeat Rep. Nan Hayworth, who has been supportive of some LGBT issues — including saying that she «respect [s]» the decision to pass marriage equality in New York.
A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.
The new equalities minister has changed her mind on the issue of gay adoption, just days after accepting the post to cries of disapproval from activists.
«New York state has said «I do» to equality,» said City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights), an openly gay legislator.
Daniel O'Donnell, the lead sponsor of the marriage equality bill in the Empire State and the first out gay New York Assemblyman (and brother of Rosie), and Rent actor Anthony Rapp are the latest public figures to speak out in the «Mitt Gets... Read
Earlier this week, the New Jersey Supreme Court handed the Republicans a nicely wrapped gift on a silver platter - an admirable but incredibly poorly timed decision on equality for gay couples.
Since then, Diaz has campaigned harder and longer than any other New York Democrat against marriage equality, leading a crowd of thousands in protest against gay marriage this summer.
Paterson has previously said he's committed to bringing «full marriage equality in New York state,» adding it's a problem that gays and lesbians who live in a civil union aren't entitled to around 1,300 civil protections that are available to married couples.
In a New York Post op - ed over the weekend, Benjamin argues that the fight for marriage equality for gay residents of the Empire State should not be compared to the civil rights battles waged by African Americans: «The same - sex - marriage movement is not nobly about obtaining a long - denied civil right.
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One of the candidates, Erick Salgado, an Evangelical Christian from Staten Island who was active in the fight against marriage equality in New York, suggested that gay groups in San Francisco and in the Pride Parade in Manhattan are «trying to ban altogether bris milah.»
Now, three prominent New York politicians and a gay rights leader have stated just the opposite — that marriage equality may very well be up for a vote this fall.
Earlier this week, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg told Gay City News that the chances of marriage equality happening in New York were «zero, zero».