Sentences with phrase «right of gay couples»

When this film was released in 2008, «Proposition 8» was passed which prevented the right of gay couples to marry.

Speaking of equal rights, it should be noted that Donald Trump does not support the equal rights of gay couples to get married.

Not exact matches

As far as the rights for gay and lesbian couples, again, this is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

So the fact gay couples are denied equal social and economical benefits of marriage, their civil rights are in violation.

Legal recognition of gay marriage affords LEGAL protections, rights and privileges straight couples enjoy.

President Barack Obama has come out in personal support of same - sex marriage, has encouraged states to recognize the rights of same - sex couples to marry and even led the movement to abolish Don't Ask, Don't Tell, but he has kept mum on whether or not he believes the Constitution gives gay people the right to marry.

Young people, gays and non-gays, have led the gay rights movement, radically changing how gays are perceived, protected and accepted within only a couple of generations.

New York's recent legalization of gay marriage is being hailed by many as a watershed moment in the history of the fight for equal rights for same sex couples.

Influential business elites, coupled with the media and gay rights activists have colluded to attack and undermine the rights of small business owners like us.

Up for vote was a referendum on whether Washington state would allow gay and lesbian couples to have several of the rights and responsibilities of legally married heterosexual couples.

A ruling in November, 2003 by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts similarly affirmed «marital» rights for gay and lesbian couples and handed the matter on to the legislature of the Commonwealth.

The lock is a good thing if you're a church leader who doesn't want to marry same - sex couples, but if you're among the minority of CofE vicars who would like the right to marry gay couples, you're stuck, because it's illegal.

Disputed policies ranging from parental choice in education, to a tax break for married couples, to opposing the legalization of gay rights are all included in the «pro-family» package.

I do not hold an opinion on this issue but to ask from the sidelines if what you declare that Gays and Lesbians want are the rights then if Civil Unions which would give all of the rights and benefits to Gay and Lesbian couples in all matters, would you accept this and drop the desire for the term «marriage» to be used.

If there is an inherent «right to marriage» for same - sex couples, religious groups that refuse to marry gay couples are violating their civil rights, which in turn could lead to a repeal of the churches» tax exempt status» or a complete overturn in our law and culture of the religious understanding of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

It allows gay and lesbian couples to enjoy the same rights as straight couples in the eyes of the law.

Meanwhile Grayling was denied the job of home secretary by Cameron in 2010 after saying that people who ran B&B s in their homes should have the right to turn away gay couples.

There can be no doubt that if gay marriage were legalised, within a few months there would be a case before the European Court of Human Rights demanding that a gay couple be allowed to get married in the Anglican Church.

During the campaign, Gibson said he was supportive of civil unions, but not full marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.

Then, what if that next message had been a gay - rights - themed fundraiser, sent a couple of days later and only to people who'd «signed the card» above?

In addition to calling for an inclusion of marriage equality in the Democratic Party platform, the language also backs overturning the Defense of Marriage Act and passing DOMA repeal legislation known as the Respect for Marriage Act in addition to opposing state constitutional amendments aimed at blocking gay couples from marriage rights.

I agree with you on this issue but would still defend the right of Catholic adoption agencies to not accept gay couples for adoption.

In a move predicted for several months and one that will no doubt intensify the believe that she is gearing up for another shot at the White House, former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has changed her position on same - sex marriage, saying in a video recorded for the Human Rights Campaign that she now supports letting gay couples legally wed..

Still, same - sex marriage and LGBT issues in general have not received much oxygen this election cycle, despite President Obama say this summer he now favored marriage rights for gay couples and a record number of gay and lesbian candidates running for public office.

The Supreme Court this week heard two cases that could decide marriage rights for gay couples — one challenging Prop 8 in California and, today, another challenging the Defense of Marriage Act.

RIP Edith Windsor, the gay - rights activist whose landmark U.S. Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013 and granted same - sex married couples federal recognition for the first time and rights to myriad federal benefits, who died today in Manhattan at the age of 88.

The race between the incumbent and the 25 - year - old real estate business owner has been heating up over the last couple of weeks with Nunes garnering support from various gay rights groups and supporters, including City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan).

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With the Hawaii State Senate giving final approval to a marriage equality bill on November 12, gay and lesbian couples in a total of 16 states plus the District of Columbia have now won the right to marry.

The man who refused to bring a gay - marriage bill to the floor of the State Senate when he was majority leader has come out today in favor of marriage rights for same - sex couples.

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.

During an LGBT fundraiser held in NYC at the height of the state's battle over same - sex marriage, President Obama said gay couples «deserve the same rights as every other couple in our country,» but he stopped short of endorsing marriage outright.

Members of this group include Chris Grayling, who was dumped as shadow home secretary by David Cameron in 2009 for saying that people who ran bed and breakfasts in their homes should «have the right» to turn away gay couples.

Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples across New York State began marrying on Sunday — the first taking their vows just after midnight — in the culmination of a long battle in the Legislature and a new milestone for gay rights advocates seeking to legalize same - sex marriage across the nation.

The shadow home secretary, Chris Grayling, said owners of B&B accommodation should have the right to turn away gay couples.

The president stopped short of using the term «marriage» while endorsing equal rights for same - sex couples at a fundraiser late Thursday, but affirmed, «I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every couple in this country.»

(It must be the couple's habit of unwinding at day's end with a little gay male porn that drew a draconian R rating — in every other respect, The Kids Are All Right is a capable bourgeois comedy.)

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.

They are kept underwraps as their loves for one another grows but it's made clear they would be looked upon with the same doubting eyes as those that once looked down on interracial couples, gay couples; their love is for many an error of nature demanding to be righted.

«When Another Country was published — at the very peak of Baldwin's public stature as a civil rights activist — it was taken as a document of a very small slice of the present: the Greenwich Village and Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, where interracial couples and gay people were able to live openly, mostly but not entirely out of the omnipresent shadow of violence.

The problems of gay couples must be addressed at large scale, so that their rights for personal freedom do not get clipped.

Rights of same - sex couples have a turbulent history in California, but the United States Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges found that not permitting gays and lesbians to marry was an unconstitutional violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Yesterday, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that same - sex couples have no right to marry under the New York state constitution, while Georgia's high court reaffirmed a ban on same - sex marriages, as reported in NY High Court Ends Same Sex Marriage Fight (NYLJ 7/6/06) and New York Judges Reject Rights to Gay Marriage (NY Times 7/7/06).

We've talked about the guts of the policy when it comes to the two year suicide and incontestability clause and the accelerated death benefit and the beneficiary rights and the beneficiary issues for those who aren't in a legal relationship such as a gay couple or an unmarried couple.

Faced over the last 30 years with rapid advances in the science of human reproduction and fertility, DNA analysis, and genetics, the equally rapid evolution of the legal rights of gay and lesbian individuals, and significant changes in social views regarding traditional marriage, same - sex couples, and families, the law throughout the United States has been forced to wrestle with the question of just exactly «who is a parent?»

Yet another gay couple is launching a human rights case against a taxi cab company whose employee tried to force the couple out of his cab on a busy expressway after the couple shared a kiss in the back seat of their cab.

I'm thrilled at the success of gay and lesbian couples finally, in the United States, state by state, winning the right to be legally recognized in their relationships.

The - parade followed the publication of the Civil Partnership Bill by the Government on Friday that will give statutory partnership rights to gay and lesbian couples but stops short of allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry.

He joined them and wrote the majority opinion finding that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry; in fact, Kennedy has written all of the court's cases protecting gay rights.

The Supreme Court last week also cleared the way for the reinstatement of marriage rights for gay couples in California, ruling that the supporters of Proposition 8, the ballot measure that invalidated same - sex marriage in the state, did not have legal standing to appeal a ruling holding Proposition 8 unconstitutional.