Sentences with phrase «on gender orientation»

I'm going to say pro-life and anti-gay marriage because I believe you'd be hard - pressed to find an atheist who believes it is okay to deny women control over their own reproductive health and the ability to decide whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term or, likewise, who believes it's okay to deny marriage to a couple based only on gender orientation.

Not exact matches

While the analysis focused on the color rather than gender - orientation of the items, the two factors are clearly related.

Minority business groups are particularly concerned that if Hobby Lobby wins, it could allow businesses to discriminate based on gender and sexual orientation.

We do not advertise on shows that contain programming that insults, ridicules, or denigrates people because of their age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, physical or mental health.

After openly supporting same - sex marriage and striking down the military's «don't ask, don't tell» policy, the President of the United States also hopes to ban workplace discrimination based on employees» sexual orientation and gender identity.

In 29 states, it «s still not explicitly illegal to discriminate against both employees and prospective hires based on sexual orientation — and 32 states allow workplace discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign, America's largest civil rights organization.

ENDA (the Employee Non-Discrimination Act), which would prohibit all employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity, was passed by the Senate in November but still awaits a vote in the House of Representatives.

-- Review your equal employment opportunity and anti-harassment policies and consider adding a commitment not to discriminate against employees based on sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.

According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, of the top 50 federal contractors, 86 % prohibit sexual orientation - based discrimination, while 61 % have banned discriminatory practices based on gender identity.

And it can use the legal argument that sexual orientation and gender expression fit into the prohibition against discrimination based on sex, says Mark T. Phillis, a Littler Mendelson shareholder and co-chair of its diversity and inclusion council.

-- Discriminating against or harassing an employee because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity, in combination with another unlawful reason, for example, on the basis of transgender status and race, or sexual orientation and disability.

Indeed, 89 % of Fortune 500 companies have policies prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, while 66 % ban discrimination based on gender identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

In Arkansas, the state government went as far as passing a law to prevent local governments from passing separate laws to prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender orientation according to US News & World Report.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

In its tweet, IBM said that it believes the new law will lead to discrimination against «people based on marriage status, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression.»

The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law Tuesday released a report summarizing academic studies and other documented evidence of employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Cook also brought up Apple's fight against workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Cambridge Analytica is committed to being an equal opportunity employer: our employees, consultants, and job applicants receive fair treatment and are never singled out based on their gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or any other similar grounds.

A spokesperson for Facebook directed Newsweek to its community standards on hate speech, which said that the platform «removes hate speech» that directly attacks people based upon «race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, or gender identity, or serious disabilities or diseases.»

The Finance Authority of Maine (FAME) does not discriminate in the administration of any of its programs or in its employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, gender, religion, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, marital status or sexual orientation.

Yet, McCorkle also suggested Salesforce's expansion wouldn't have happened if the General Assembly and Pence hadn't scaled back RFRA to ensure the law didn't override local ordinances that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

SunTrust does not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, creed, color, gender, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable laws.

Example: Liberalism is committed to ending discrimination, except when discriminating on the basis of race, gender, and sexual orientation is required to end discrimination.

In August, the New Atlantis published a 113 - page report on the science of gender and sexual orientation, titled «Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences» and authored by two Johns Hopkins professors, pyschiatrist Paul McHugh and biostatistician Lawrence gender and sexual orientation, titled «Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences» and authored by two Johns Hopkins professors, pyschiatrist Paul McHugh and biostatistician Lawrence Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences» and authored by two Johns Hopkins professors, pyschiatrist Paul McHugh and biostatistician Lawrence Mayer.

♦ Johns Hopkins administrators responded with the usual «I hear your pain» concessions to the HRC's faux anguish over the harms inflicted by a dry report on the current state of the science on matters of sexual orientation and gender — but they stopped short of disavowal.

On a related note, it seems the Church of Latter - Day Saints wants to be more inclusive of the MOGAI (marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex) community on a conditioOn a related note, it seems the Church of Latter - Day Saints wants to be more inclusive of the MOGAI (marginalized orientations, gender identities, and intersex) community on a conditioon a condition.

Moreover, nine states, the District of Columbia, and thirty - three local jurisdictions have laws banning mental health professionals from offering «conversion therapies» to minors on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

On campus, the college created an official group in February for students to explore questions of gender identity and sexual orientation.

Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on sexual orientation and gender identity and expression.

◾ Studies indicate that between 25 % and 50 % of homeless youth are LGBT and on the streets because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Religion News Service: Obama extols a biblical vision of equality for all in second inaugural A presidential inauguration is by tradition the grandest ritual of America's civil religion, but President Obama took the oath of office on Monday (Jan. 21) in a ceremony that was explicit in joining theology to the nation's destiny and setting out a biblical vision of equality that includes race, gender, class, and, most controversially, sexual orientation.

Studies suggest that between 25 % and 50 % of homeless youth are on the street because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Matthew is the founder and president of The Reformation Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to changing church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Historically, California's higher - education law, which includes requirements against discrimination based on sexual orientation, sex, and gender identity, has had an exemption allowing a religious college to follow policies based on its religious tenets.

Teeby: Of course man will always be focusing on differences, whether they be skin color, gender, se - xual orientation, political views, scientific views, etc..

It is, therefore, easy to understand why more and more people believe that it is wrong to deny a sexual relation to oneself or to anyone else simply on the basis of marital status, sexual orientation, or gender identification.

If societal views on gender and sexual orientation are changing as rapidly as the secular media might have us think, it is high time the Church sought to form a theological and pastoral response to transgender and the psychological condition that usually pre-empts a gender transition, known as gender dysphoria.

For some the cause adopted was environmentalism, or anti- «globalism,» and others (who had the license to) got into angry explorations of the holy triad of race / gender / orientation (class was usually on the back - burner).

There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation.»

There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender ident — ity or s - exual orientation.»

A respected diversity trainer and consultant in conflict resolution, Johnson possesses a keen understanding of the mechanisms of societal oppression (based on race, gender, sexual orientation, economics, etc.) and seeks to approach these from the context of spiritual oneness.

The report calls on the Member States to provide «adolescent - friendly sexual and reproductive health services which are in accordance with age, maturity and evolving capacities, which do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation / identity, and which are accessible without the consent of parents or guardians.»

Therefore we call for an end to all religious and civil discrimination against any person based on seixual orientation and gender identity and expression.

Now he has launched The Reformation Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to changing church teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity.

It defines conversion therapy as any therapeutic approach assumes one gender identity is «inherently preferable to any other, and attempts to bring about a change of sexual orientation or gender identity, or seeks to supress an individual's expression of sexual orientation or gender identity on that basis.»

Jim told us that this topic was based on the concerns of those who felt that core parts of their identities, especially their gender or sexual orientation, had been devalued, denied or excluded within much of the Christian tradition.

On the social - action agenda of mainline denominations today are sexual - justice issues regarding gender and sexual orientation.

If Chick - fil - A discriminates based on race, gender, or sexual orientation, then they should be subject to government intervention, but a government can not and should not punish someone for free speech.

It is unfair of us to expect or impose a twentieth century mentality and understanding about equality of genders, races and sexual orientations on the Biblical writers.

Science and psychology continue to confirm this as a reality, with the American Psychological Association no longer characterizing variations in sexual orientation and gender identity as disorders, only warning that stigmatization based on them can negatively affect mental health.