Sentences with phrase «not about equality»

«To me this bill is not about equality,» said Assemblyman Don Miller, R - Clay.

And it ain't about equality.

ERS: Equalizing isn't about equality: Reluctant Reformer Cameron sidesteps main problems of voting system

Not exact matches

Even deciding whether or not Jane Austen's sour face goes on the tenner — critics say more women, besides Her Majesty, need to be represented on currency — will be a lesson in England's hyper - sensitivities about its equality and heritage.

Not only is this an issue about equality, it also greatly impacts a company's bottom line.

I know having shared this with other men, I am not alone in this and the kind of issue I am talking about it every bit as in need of attention as other forms of sexism that we have been discussing if equality is the aim.

I'm all about equality and don't have a problem with ladies being better than guys.

One thing I find entertaining about believers is that they absolutely get so bent out of shape at the thought of equality for everyone, and not only to those who goose - step to their own particular brand of «right».

Ms Evans, you make a good point about us not wanting to go to church because we want equality for our gay and lesbian friends but you missed the point.

I learned about equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with women he called «co-workers.»

And I don't believe the issue is about equality.

I learned about equality, not from Virginia Woolf, but from Junia, described in the New Testament as «outstanding among the apostles.»

Pastors and mentors will of course feel compelled to offer guidance and prayer as young adults navigate the tricky terrain of sexuality, but they should not be deceived into thinking that the all the questions about faith, science, technology, religious pluralism, politics, justice, equality, and ethics emerging from the Millennial generation are related to sex and can be solved by abstaining from it.

-- Just a few examples of the Peace and equality in Islam, because we have a lot of ignorance who choose not to learn about Islam - it is NOT evil like the media portrays not to learn about Islam - it is NOT evil like the media portrays NOT evil like the media portrays it.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

After raising in a light way some deep questions about equality, democracy, and free speech, he concludes: «The ultimate failure of the United States will probably not derive from the problems we see or the conflicts we wage.

Unless they are actively working to change things from within, which most are not, it is out of laziness and narrow self - interest (nice place for a wedding, pretty communion dresses for the kids) over caring about vital international aid issues and healthcare or gender equality.

Then I see so much in the news about what people are doing in the name of Christ... that isn't Christ like at all, like not wanting marriage equality, etc. and I'm like... I wish there were another word for it.

Rational argument, while essential, «will not resolve all controversy,» notes legal theorist Martha Nussbaum in writing about the move to give full equality to gays and lesbians, «because it is very likely that the resistance... has deep psychological roots.»

This is about children and gender equality, not about limiting free speech.»

Here is a link to a video that is a powerful speech its from an older movie called the dictator, very good movie by the way, Anyway Charlie chaplin plays the part of hitler and uses a very powerful and memorable speach about equality and the way life is moving,» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WibmcsEGLKo» you have shown nothing but malice in these comments and you wonder why gay's are protrayed as the «bad guys» in video games and movies and if you don't believe that then watch this» https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdmJXHJLZ6M» the point is I will respect the person who is silent, holding a flag that has ever color before i Can or Will ever respect someone like yourself.

If equality is to happen, having it both ways with men talking about feelings with not being supportive but invalidating feelings can't be acceptable.

Again, the point I would make about Gal 3:28 is not to see that as being about an argument for «equality» (for example women in leadership) but that it is possible to be part of the body of Christ for everyone and that you don't have to be male / Jew / free for that.

For example, Selma is not shy about tying Martin Luther King Jr.'s thirst for equality to God's love of justice, and Interstellar certainly orbits the perimeter of a biblical worldview when its characters identify Love as a force outside the bounds of time and space.

Oh btw NP, I read yesterday that in the Greek, the verse about how Jesus made himself the lowest of the low and a slave etc. «not considering equality with God something to be grasped at» (sorry no good at remembering verse numbers, but you'll know the one) actually says that he stripped himself naked.

Note that this is a metaphysical argument about the teleology of marriage and not a policy argument about «equality.»

While the bishops don't talk about dwindling contributions for political reasons (hey, they're Republicans) we know they are closing churches all over America and don't seem to be willing to finance anti-gay marriage equality votes any more.

They talk about love and equality but they hate the other are wounding and don't care who gets caught in the crossfire.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

Wonder Woman wasn't just a great superhero movie (though it was), it had a great underlying message about gender equality and female empowerment.

But so many people who begin with Jesus» deity end up talking about things that don't make sense to me — about how he descended from heaven and why he gave up his equality with God.

I'm sorry you are inconvenienced by hearing about the fight for equality, but maybe you should stop complaining and be thankful that you are not the one being denied your rights.

Like Thomas Jefferson, who did not live up to the Declaration of Independence's lines about equality — Jefferson did not mean women, did not intend to and did not free slaves — but who did provide a charter for equality, Luther was often a person of contradictions whose mixed legacy left some things worse.

And not because of their faith, but because of a forthright argument about fairness and equality.

It was an exercise in delusion, if not hypocrisy, because all that we said about equality, life, liberty, public happiness, freedom, the right of assembly, participation, and the other noble principles applied in fact only to the white man, not to the majority of persons in this country, who at that time were red, or to a sizable minority who were black and in chains.

We can't become «all about» economic equality but we can care more about the lives of the people around us and reclaim the value Jesus placed on feeding, clothing, visiting and inviting in.

Not wanting to make a point about false advertising, but rather the ease that it is to crituque and to deconstruct and the harder choice being to relate with dignity and equality to «the other»..

people like you who can't mind their own business and seek to deny any group of americans their constitutionally guaranteed equality THE SAME EQUALITY EVERYONE IS ENTITLED TO — then get all pissy about fags while displaying — what i've got to say appears some really unhealthy denial and latency issues... is definitely the enemy of reason.

But he isn't talking about actual equality, now is he?

It's none of our business what MLK thought about the «Gay» lifestyle... hell, his battle for the people of color's equality of life cost him his life; So, I'm sure he didn't have time to even discuss or ponder what people choose to do with their affections, nor did he care at that point.

When gospel - related themes about justice, peace, and equality are raised in the various elements of culture, the church may suspect that these issues did not rise solely out of the hearts and minds of unregenerate people, but were created by the gentle breezes of the Spirit upon all people in our society.

When the vp and cabinet members are being picked have a whole list of targets for LGBT people, minorities, and women, there's an issue with that, and even if I didn't fall into one of those categories I'd still give a damn because I'm a decent human being that cares about equality.

There's no need for us to talk about unity and equality and have 60 percent of this country mad at you because you're not perceived to be honoring the flag.

My point about feminism is that many feminists aren't so much interested in equality as they are in the upper hand.

If equality is not achieved, then why do they piss and moan about alimony, paying for their little shit factories that a man may not have even fathered and have a court system that defaults to catering women over men?

What bothers me most is that, after all these years of women fighting for equality, with all our demands that we have an «equal partner,» why wouldn't we want to support men in their freedom, too — freedom to be stay - at - home dads, freedom to work part - time so they can maybe find the elusive work - live balance we women obsess about — instead of dooming them to obsolescence?

Dr. Deb Pontillo: Yeah and with an older child, I mean the older they get, you can talk about fairing and equality in that, and they are not really the same thing.

Feminism isn't about forcing women to do what others think they should do to further gender equality or women's rights; it's about women securing and exercising the right to do whatever it is they want to with their bodies, and as parents.

I don't accept that there is a zero - sum choice between our own discussions and public facing discussions, but I think the greater challenge (eg in our recent research) is about value - based public advocacy which connects to and translates political ideas, like equality.

Seems he might have a bit of equality opportunity about him but not anything more.