Sentences with phrase «of discriminating against gays»

TWU «can be anti-gay, they can truly believe that, they can think it, they can say it, they can pray about it, they can write about it, they can lecture about it, but they can't take that additional step of discriminating against gay applicants and gay students,» she tells Legal Feeds.

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At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

No one should be beaten, mur dered, made fun of, or discriminated against for being gay.

And with the inclusion of gods we get — Muslims killing Christians Christians killing Muslims Jews killing Palestinians Christians discriminating against black folks, women, and gays.

Gay men and lesbian women are physically and psychologically abused, they are excluded from families, frozen out of churches and discriminated against in a variety of legal ways.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

The Christian owners of a bakery found to have discriminated against a gay rights activist take their... More

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge over his claim he was discriminated against.

I honestly believe that gays attraction to the same se.x is part of their being and trying to change that or discriminate against them is just plain wrong.

I would find it laughable if it weren't so disgusting that so many so - called «Christians» go out of their way to demonize gays, and incite violence and discrimination against gays, and yet when someone turns around and calls them bigots or explains why they think the «Christian» position is wrong, then they moan about how horribly they are being oppressed and discriminated against.

Canon Jeremy Pemberton, the gay priest who lost a tribunal claim that he was discriminated against by the Church of England after he was refused a job for being...

And regardless of what anybody says, the only reason people discriminate openly against gay people this way is because of religion.

Youth groups: The city of Berkeley, Calif., requested that the Sea Scouts (affiliated with the Boy Scouts) formally agree to not discriminate against gay men in exchange for free use of berths in the city's marina.

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

hingie, I really don't care what you think since my civil marriage has nothing to do with your book of fairy tales and if the main reason you believe gays should be discriminated against is because you read it in your book of myths, then all the more reason to grant gays their civil marriages.

But even if I didn't, even if I believed same - sex marriage was a sin, I could never, in good conscience, throw my support behind a law that would put my gay and lesbian neighbors behind bars for being gay or allow businesses free range to discriminate against them because of their orientation.

it's funny the hot button topics on religion get hundreds of posts; the one about the catholic churuch discriminating against a gay couple get two pages of posts.

It opens the door for someone to discriminate against gay people because of their views on the subject, or so any of thousands of religious based nonsense.

The Christian owners of a bakery found to have discriminated against a gay rights activist take their case to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

What I meant to say is that the religion of a candidate will certainly influence his politics — how could someone who's religion discriminates against a «gay lifestyle» pass legislation that supports gay equality and abolishes the second - class citizen status of gay people?

The «in your face,» noisy proclamations are an attempt to assert the atheist's rights to not be discriminated against via public support of religion, usually Christianity, e.g. stem cell research, gay marriage bans, creationism in science class, etc..

Not that I am now a stranger, but that I was reared a stranger, because now I feel my «own people» are black and brown and all the people of color, and all those Christian gays and lesbians who struggle for acceptance — all those who know what it means to be discriminated against because of who they are, where they were born, or how much money or education they have.

I was hoping for some more detailed and nuanced information, for example differences in populations of available children, differences in ability to discriminate against certain kinds of potential adoptive or foster parents (e.g., single, non-Christian, gay, etc.), differences in whom prospective parents work with (attorney?

Ladele and McFarlane's argument was that they should be able to discriminate against gay people, against laws banning discrimination in the provision of goods and services.

At some point the Supreme Court is going to have to end the foolishness of allowing states to discriminate against gay and lesbian Americans.

[329] In August 2013, he criticized Russia's law that discriminated against gays, [330] but he stopped short of advocating a boycott of the upcoming 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

The mandate is a result of a North Carolina law that discriminates against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Backed by gay rights groups, Golinski sued the government, arguing that DOMA discriminates against legally married same - sex couples by depriving them of the same rights, from health benefits to tax status, as heterosexual couples.

New York's top financial regulator has launched a broad probe of 170 insurance companies to see if any discriminated against selling life insurance to gay men who took HIV - prevention medicine.

This is part of a victimhood narrative in which, it is said, people are being penalised «for being Christians» (read: for discriminating against gay clients) in various roles such as registrars, relationship counsellors, would - be adopters, and hotel proprietors.

Naomi Phillips, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «Through wide exceptions that exempt religious organisations from significant parts of the law, the Equality Act gives excessive privileges specifically to religious groups, permitting them to discriminate against not only gay and lesbian people but against the non-religious and those of other religions.

Pence's most controversial moment as a national figure — and the biggest stumble of his political career — came after he signed a law in Indiana that critics had warned would allow businesses to discriminate against gay men and lesbians.

The special exemptions enshrined in the Act to permit organised religions to treat lesbian and gay people unkindly, unfairly, and discriminate against them are so wide that the legislation itself may even be in breach of European equality legislation.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and lesbians, even as his administration moved in federal court to defend the law.

Are they discriminating against gays or is it more of a marketing strategy?

Many of them openly discriminate against gay students and students with gay parents.

Ball also reported that officials with the N.C. School Boards Association have identified private schools across the state that openly discriminate against students and families despite receiving public funding, putting gay parents in the position of having their tax dollars paying for schools that have a policy of refusing admission to their children.

The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal by a Christian bed and breakfast owner, upholding the decision that she unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to provide them with a double bedroom.

The Christian owner of a B&B in Berkshire was found to have discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to allow them stay in a double - bedded room because of her belief that all sexual activity outside of marriage is wrong.

On the same day, the High Court ruled that Christian prayers held before a council meeting were unlawful, and the Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the High Court that two Christian hotel owners had discriminated against gay clients by not offering them a double room.

Lawyers and campaigners have served up a mixed reaction to a ruling that the owners of a Belfast bakery unlawfully discriminated against a customer by refusing to decorate a cake with the slogan, «Support Gay Marriage».

One of the cases being heard in Belfast will be Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd, in which the Justices will hear arguments on whether a bakery directly discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation when the bakery said they could not fulfil an order for a cake with «Support Gay Marriage» written on it because of their religious beliefs.

Opponents argued the Langley university's community covenant prohibiting «sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman» discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation against gay and lesbian law students and faculty.

Tellingly, it does not appear that the BC College of Teachers has had much success (if any) in dismissing graduates from TWU from the teaching profession on the grounds that they actually discriminated against gay or lesbian students, which suggest that, in fact, TWU graduates are not generally homophobes.

In Preddy v Bull [2013] UKSC 73 the Supreme Court upheld the claim that the owners of a private hotel had discriminated unlawfully against a gay couple by allowing only married couples to occupy a room with a double bed.

Each time an Irish government proposes to introduce new rights for gay citizens opponents call for the right of service providers to discriminate against those citizens.

However, when it comes to the topic of gay parenting, the take - home message is that there is simply no scientific justification for discriminating against same - sex parents.