Sentences with phrase «people against discrimination»

Collins championed the public sharing of genome data and pushed for legislation to protect people against discrimination based on their genes.

Among the more high - profile examples is the state's protections of transgender people against discrimination.

I supported the sexual orientation regulations which gave legal protection to gay people against discrimination.

However, amendments to the act, which come into force today, now protect such people against discrimination in the workplace, education, housing or in accessing services from the moment they are diagnosed.

The European Court of Justice adopted a different approach however and held that: «It is important to protect all natural persons against discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin.

Not exact matches

Several experts questioned whether the practice is in keeping with the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, which prohibits bias against people 40 or older in hiring or employment.

Here are the states where you can still be fired for being gay because they don't have explicit laws that prevent discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace.

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon is introducing the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Bloomberg reports.

Even if the religious freedom laws aren't intended to allow discrimination against LGBT people, the point is, with the state RFRA laws it's possible.

And they have also tended to allow religious excuses to free people from certain legal claims, such as might arise in jurisdictions with broad protections against discrimination, including minorities such as LGBT people.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, more than 200 «anti-LGBTQ bills» were introduced across the country in 2016 sessions - most failing to pass - and more than 111 million people live in states without clear state - level protections against LGBTQ workplace discrimination.

San Francisco taxpayers will not subsidize legally - sanctioned discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people by the State of Indiana.

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.»

It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

maybe it's because the faithful do things like fly airplanes into buildings and withhold healthcare from women and fight to suppress education and condone insti.tutionalized discrimination against gay people.

You don't have to believe in intelligent design to see how there is harassment and discrimination against people for their beliefs.

What logical, caring person can support slavery, discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, discrimination against the handicapped, beating children, beating elderly female slaves without punishment, supporting a god who would let the family of his greatest supporter be killed to WIN A BET, etc..?

In addition to civil rights for people of color, women and LGBT, there has been an expansion of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age and disability discrimination, and recognition of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.

The people who vote to legalize and enforce discrimination against gay folks are bigots.

What good are morals if the one giving them supports morals that most people consider to be awful like slavery and discrimination against women, gays and the handicapped, as well as beating children and slaves without punishment in some cases?

Was it the next 80 years of discrimination against women and minorities or banning people of different skin colors from marrying?

''... because you adore grouping people together to discriminate against them...» It is true there is discrimination and persecution around the world.

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

In contrast, last week — in an unprecedented compromise — Utah passed two bills: one banning discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people; and on protecting the rights of those who object to same - sex marriage on religious grounds.

There is an inconsistency, too, in the justification of discrimination against LGBT people that points to a special animus against them.

We can love people who are LGBT, speak out strongly against all discrimination towards them, and still remain straight.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

Such a sign is a call to transform national and international social, economic, and political structures so that they may provide the conditions required for the development for all, without exclusion and discrimination against any person in any circumstance.

You are the first person I know who says slavery and mindless discriminations against women, gays, and the handicapped is PERFECT.

Joe, people have used their religious teachings to justify discrimination against Native Americans, African Americans, minority religious groups, woman and interracial couples.

Where do the morals come from that tell you the Bible is WRONG to support the OWNING of other people; discrimination against women, discrimination against the handicapped, unpunished BEATING of slaves, children, etc..?

Most civilizations (let's take America for example while it is not a civilization, had segregation and discrimination against Blacks and Colored people until the 60s).

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

Let's not pretend this is anything other than what it is: a small group of people holding onto their evil discrimination against a group of people.

There is so much aggression toward and discrimination against people who don't have religious affiliation; mostly, in my experience, coming from christians.

No one will ever be able to stop discrimination against other people.

Believe what you will, but discrimination against people because of their personal preferences is in no way admirable.

If you approve of planes flying into buildings, dressing women in cloth bags, denying stem cell research, discrimination against women, gays and anyone with alternate beliefs, denying contraception to people who can't afford families, picketing soldiers funerals, etc, etc, then keep your fuzzy mindset about good and evil.

On Christian ethical grounds, I would recommend that all laws making criminal offenses of acts between consenting homosexual adults be repealed and that there be no blanket job discrimination against homosexual persons of either sex; further, I contend that exclusion of homosexual persons from churches (unless they are pushed out for a reason that would apply to heterosexuals in identical fashion) is untenable.

Go ahead and be uncomfortable; in 20 years, people are going to perceive your intolerance of atheism in the same light that discrimination against black is today.

Many people who are against Islam here wouldn't dream of openly letting it be know, for fear of discrimination.

Speaking on BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Peter Tatchell said: «He can't perhaps comment about the individuality of that particular case, but he certainly could comment on the principle, which is that he has, in the past, supported legal discrimination against gay people.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

9 A vivid illustration of the problem here raised for all moral judgments is given in the experience of a lecturer who asserted to a group of Southern people that no one could practice discrimination against another race and be a Christian.

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

They can be challenged to work in projects to improve their community through political and social action, to help eradicate sexism, racism, ageism (discrimination against aging persons), and poverty, all of which damage marriages and families.

They also want to remind people that the country implements a constitutional - based discrimination against those Dalits that embrace Christianity.

There is no acknowledgment that, in the view of many, a discrimination - free society is one that does not discriminate for or against people on the basis of their race or gender, as quotas certainly do.

There are still states that allow discrimination against gay people in the workplace.

Most people are opposed to his «righteous» support of slavery and discrimination against women, gays, and the handicapped.