Sentences with phrase «on equal marriage»

Farron has been attacked in the past about his voting record on equal marriage, but he is not the only Westminster leader to be vulnerable in this area.

She also listed allowing openly LGBT armed forces members and supporting in Parliament the «important piece of legislation that we are debating now on equal marriage.»

I completely agree with your stance on equal marriage.

Not exact matches

You might be right, but then you'd be assuming that everyone wants to get married, that everyone wants a plural marriage, and that there are EXACTLY an equal amount fo males and females on the planet.

If plural marriage is God's highest ideal, then why are there approximately EQUAL numbers of men and women on the planet?

To deny females equal authority not because of their character, their intimacy with Christ or their giftedness, but solely because of gender — a fixed and unchangeable condition — creates communities, organizations, churches and marriages that are inherently unjustbecause they deny a people group shared authority based on an unchangeable condition - gender.

Court has hit the headlines with her vocal opposition to same - sex marriage while she told a Christian radio station on Wednesday that transgenderism was the work of the devil and compared a global plot to promote equal sexual rights to Hitler.

Where religion truely becomes evil is when a holy war is started (jihad) or people actively stop others from receiving equal treatment based strictly on their own ignorant beliefs (same se.x marriage).

The best way to normalize homosexuality is by placing gay marriage / same - sex marriage on an equal plane with traditional opposite - gender marriage.

But because this «equal marriage» issue happens to hold the headlines, and it is understandable that many are speaking on an issue which is salient.

Expressing his support for LGBT rights and equal marriage, he initially declined to explain his stance on gay sex.

It started a couple of days ago when I popped off on my Facebook page about how much I wished there was a really great marriage conference for people whose marriages are more like our own — theologians call it «egalitarian» meaning that we believe in a marriage of equals, that we are co-leaders and our marriage is more about lifting each other up and following Jesus together as one.

A federal appeals court on May 31st ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it denies equal rights for legally married same - sex couples, making it likely that the Supreme Court will consider the politically divisive issue for the first time in its next term.

In a historic turn of events, a federal appeals panel in San Francisco ruled Tuesday that California's ban on same - sex marriage violates the constitutional right to equal protection.

My list of beliefs which «faith» required included; literal creation and a young earth / universe, complete scriptural inerrancy, total abstinence from alcohol, no women in church leadership, absolutely sexually chaste outside of marriage, homosexuality equals pure abomination, and on and on the list goes.

Absolutely sexually chaste outside of marriage, homosexuality equals pure abomination, and on and on the list goes.

As if you're supposed to wait till marriage to have sex only to find out you're not compatible with your spouse in bed so now you have to FORCE yourself to feel passionate toward someone who doesn't turn you on and therefore that equals «hot sex».

The issue is the LDS Church's position on equal partnership in marriage, not how it decides its leadership.

And even those in the most loving marriage recognize that earning money puts them on equal footing with their husbands — and protects them in case that marriage ends.

If a savvy lawyer informs a woman that her ex could get equal custody, thus putting the kabosh on her plans, and then asks if she ever feared him, whether he ever cursed at her, called her names, raised his voice or screamed in a fit of rage, «I'm so angry at you, I could kill you» — and what marriage doesn't have some sort of anger, yelling or threats?

Brian Cook is with the Human Rights Campaign, which works on marriage equality and other equal rights issues for the LGBT community.

In the brief, the AG challenges DOMA's constitutionality, saying it violates the right of married same - sex couples to equal protection of the law, intrudes on the state's power to define marriage and undermines the concept of federalism.

Of course, the Conservatives will not be doing this on subjects such as equal marriage, Europe or renewable energy; but that appears to be of no concern to the strategists.

Read more about my Private Member's Bill, which will address equal civil partnerships, stillbirths and mothers» names on marriage certificates.

But he said of No 10's attempts to introduce equal marriage: «I have just never felt that this is what we should be focusing on... There was no huge demand for this and we didn't need to spend a lot of parliamentary time and upset vast numbers of people in order to do this.»

As I have suggested before, my expectation is that, as was the case with civil partnerships, once the equal marriage proposals are implemented and the sky does not fall in, the ban on marriages taking place on religious premises will be lifted in due course too.

With 53 percent of the American people in separate polls by The Post and Gallup supporting gay marriage, Obama is effectively behind the country on this equal rights issue.

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.

There are another nine Lib Dem MPs who are listed on the Coalition for Equal Marriage website as not declaring for or against.

«Rather than speaking up and speaking out against discrimination in all its forms, after years of silence on same sex marriages, Donovan has chosen to oppose equal rights for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

A few news outlets say he is still deciding on his vote, even if the Coalition for Equal Marriage thinks he's in the bag.

«The federal Defense of Marriage Act clearly violates the principle of equal justice under law as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and improperly intrudes on the traditional role of states in defining marriage,» Schneiderman said in a stMarriage Act clearly violates the principle of equal justice under law as enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and improperly intrudes on the traditional role of states in defining marriage,» Schneiderman said in a stmarriage,» Schneiderman said in a statement.

The 33 - page amicus brief argues that DOMA, which defines marriage as a union between a woman and a man, violates same - sex couples» right to equal protection under the law and «discriminates based on sex and sexual orientation.»

Lorigo said he's personally «strong in the conviction that New York should not pass gay marriage,» but added: «On the other side of the coin, I have no problem with the equal rights part of it.

The new leadership was unveiled yesterday on yet another breathless day at Westminster, when Cameron and his deputy prime minister Clegg held a joint press conference in which both displayed equal enthusiasm for turning their shotgun marriage brought about by a hung parliament, into a genuine partnership.

I am very proud of what I was able to achieve in my previous role there, not least introducing equal marriage, ending the fingerprinting of children and banning wheel - clamping on private land.

The story follows King (Emma Stone) as she struggles to win equal pay for players on the Virginia Slims circuit while also dealing with her own career and a marriage to devoted husband Larry that are threatened by an affair she is having with her hairdresser Marilyn (Andrea Riseborough).

While an audience watched Edgerton and Ruth Negga's portrayal of Richard and Mildred Loving, the biracial couple whose landmark civil rights case saw the U.S. Supreme Court end all racial restrictions on marriage in 1967, a legal fight is being waged between the U.S. federal government and the state of North Carolina over equal rights for transgender Americans, and gay marriage continues to be a divisive issue.

Hesse struggled with the desire to be on equal footing with Doyle in terms of their art making but also wanted to be in a marriage with someone who could offer her the security that life often denied her.

As I mentioned in my last post, Turnbull's narrow win has left us with a government standing for nothing but delaying various inevitable outcomes, including * equal marriage; * participation in global action on climate change; and, most notably * Turnbull's removal from office, whether by voters or, more likely, by his own colleagues.

In doing so, that court set aside precedent from 2006 that many regarded as a controlling opinion on same - sex marriage bans: Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning, an Eighth Circuit opinion upholding Nebraska's ban.

To the extent that the presumption of advancement is applied differently between traditional marriages, common law relationships, and same - sex marriages, the continued application of the presumption of advancement is incoherent with the legislative objective of putting all such unions or marriages on an equal footing.

Often, these limitations are phased in superficially more equal terms, but the agreement only has a practical affect limiting a spouse's legal economic rights in marriage on the less affluent spouse, when it is recognized that one spouse is starting out affluent and the other spouse is starting out less affluent.

RSA 458:16 - a also says that the court can deviate from an equal division based on variety of factors, including the length of the marriage, what property was owned prior to the marriage, and the contributions of each party to the marital property.

The Volokh Conspirators are deep into the fine print in their posts on a 43 - page opinion issued yesterday by Judge Joseph Bataillon, a Clinton appointee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, who has struck down a 2000 amendment to the Nebraska Constitution limiting marriage under Nebraska state law to opposite sex relationships (Citizens for Equal Protection v. Bruning).

All property jointly acquired during the marriage would be divided between the parties in equal shares.Both attorneys were present when the parties executed the agreement and the signing was recorded on videotape.

The Supreme Court based its decision on the fact that prohibiting same - sex marriages constitutes a violation of the 14th amendment, because rights were not granted to all US Citizens by equal.

This is in effect conduct through the «back door» and the approach was criticised by the House of Lords and sensibly so, as it would be a rare case in which the parties had equally decided that their marriage / civil partnership was at an end and that there had been equal fault on both sides.

As the nature of marriage becomes more complex with partners bringing assets, income, and property into a union on an increasingly equal basis, the decision to award one party support or a larger share of communal property is no longer a simple equation — time put into a union against lost income — or any similarly simplistic comparison.

If you are planning on getting married anytime soon, then keep reading as you need to know that not all marriage licences are created equal.