Sentences with phrase «on basic civil rights»

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.»

It's time for him to take a stand on the basic civil right of equal treatment under the law.

Not exact matches

For the basic thrust of today's civil rights posture looks to the «signing, on a certain date, of a certain paper by the President,» or by a federal judge, to deliver freedom to blacks.

There is a delicious irony in Christians complaining about having atheism forced on them, when everywhere you look there are Christian symbols, there are evangelists asking if we atheists have «heard the good news», and most infuriating, there are those who would deny basic civil rights to those who offend their Jesus.

I can think of more than a few presidential candidates who would benefit from watching this film, from Mitt «Our most basic civil liberty is the right to be kept alive» Romney to Ron «Lincoln was a despot» Paul to all the Democrats who didn't stand with Chris Dodd on the FISA bill.

Baldry goes on about altering the basic nature of marriage, which delivers «no obvious legal gains given the rights already conferred by civil partnerships.»

According to the Empire State Pride Agenda, «GENDA would extend basic civil rights protections to all New Yorkers based on their gender identity and expression.»

Beginning in 2011, however, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) began asking schools to provide basic information on enrollment in such programs and to break out that enrollment by racial and ethnic groups.

While woefully short on details, this proposal makes clear that the administration seeks to create a new $ 250 million federal program that will allow taxpayer dollars to flow to private schools, which are not accountable; can discriminate in admissions and discipline; and are not subject to basic monitoring, oversight, and civil rights laws.

Preeminent education policy experts, school board members and administrators, civil rights advocates, award - winning teachers, and top legal scholars filed amici curiae, or «friend of the court» briefs urging the Court of Appeal to uphold the basic protections on which teachers and students depend.

Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

While the iron law of climate may seem obvious, many on the left continue to reject it, insisting that turning up the volume with dire warnings of climate apocalypse and civil - rights - style protests can overcome the basic technological and economic obstacles to action.

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