Sentences with phrase «rights leaders oppose»

But the gap won't get any narrower as long as civil - rights leaders oppose the reforms that are doing the most to bridge it.

Not exact matches

Eli Lilly, the Indiana - based drug maker, has been an active member of a coalition of businesses, faith leaders, and civil - rights and community organizations united that opposed the bill.

Right now, you've got a Religious Right in America that's losing its own young people because its leaders HATE so much whoever opposes them.

I suspect that missing from the tribute video will be any acknowledgement of the fact that the founder of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell, vehemently opposed the work of Martin Luther King Jr, publicly condemned him as a communist, and delivered an impassioned sermon the day after King's march to Selma opposing civil rights marchers as «left wing leaders» whose only aim was to stir up racial tensions and violence.

In the same way, religious leaders who oppose gay rights must accept that gay Americans are afforded the same religious liberty protections.

P: Korah, at the head of 250 recognized leaders of Israel, opposes Moses and Aaron in the interests of the entire community, protesting the limitation of priestly rights and privileges to Moses arid Aaron and the Levites on the ground that «all the congregation are holy» (v. 3).

The opposition puts him within the same camp of labor leaders and environmental groups who had opposed holding a convention on the grounds constitutionally protected rights and benefits would be put at risk.

However, several moderates on the committee who have previously opposed significant reform, including the deputy leader, Tom Watson, have made clear they will no longer do so, believing the election result shows the Labour leader has earned the right to make the changes he wants.

But there was fury from Labour figures as the party still lost councillors - the first time in recent memory that's happened in a leader's first year - despite opposing «the most right - wing Tory government ever».

Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos told reporters this morning that his conference was firmly opposed to the womens reproductive health act, an expansion of abortion rights that is at the centerpiece of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's equality for women legislative package.

The Senate Republicans have a Deputy Leader serving under federal indictment, senators fleeing under the cloud of federal investigation and extremist right wing candidates who oppose.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

The Union chief said: «We have a Labour party leader and Shadow Chancellor who are vehemently opposed to austerity, who are ready to fight for a fair alternative that doesn't attack the living standards, livelihoods and the hard won rights of working people.»

The Labour leader (right today) kept his seat when Mr Javid made his challenge but shadow home secretary Diane Abbott (centre) intervened to insist Labour opposed the abuse

We believe that many legislators want to do the right thing and are opposed to giving up their independence and allowing the leaders of both houses - the Assembly and the Senate - to make all decisions for them.

Looking at who members don't want as leader, predictably enough there is a large body of members on the right of the party steadfastly opposed to Ken Clarke — 54 % of «Blue water» Tories say Ken should definitely not be leader.

Hartford, Ct. - 06/07/2017 - Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano (L) speaks with Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney (second from right) outside the senate chambers after Senate Republicans announced they would force a vote on their budget and before Democrats announced their dismay at the opposing party's unexpected move.

I supported people like Lincoln Restler right off the bat,» he said, referring to the insurgent district leader who has opposed the County organization.

Sidelining many of the most inspiring aspects of the civil rights movement, the film focuses solely on the nitty - gritty and often alarming way in which Johnson juggled the opposing demands of movement leaders, like Martin Luther King (Anthony Mackie), with those of Southern Democrats, embodied here by Johnson friend and mentor Georgia Senator Richard Russell (Frank Langella), to force the act through a divided and, in many cases, openly racist Congress.

When Los Angeles and New York City received similar emailed threats but made opposing decisions — LA choosing to close its system for a day, New York remaining open, calling the threats a hoax — it cast a spotlight on how school leaders make decisions, and whether there's a right way or a wrong way to proceed in times of uncertainty.

Congress added the provision, which was opposed by some national education and civil liberties groups, in the controversy that flared after the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000 upheld the right of the Boy Scouts to exclude homosexuals as adult leaders.

Legendary labor leader A. Philip Randolph and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. repeatedly told their supporters that the political forces attacking unions were the same ones who opposed civil rights.

Given the dissatisfaction among civil rights groups with the efforts by both the administration and congressional leaders to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions, the unwillingness of the administration to back away from the effort, and the successful court challenges launched by those opposing implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act, it is quite likely that reformers on both sides of the ideological line will take Obama and Duncan to court.

I know many of you are opposed to what these guys want, but the fact that our elected leaders are having a fight right now, and we are able to get video just like that is pretty amazing.

The poll reveals that a majority of Republicans actively oppose exactly what their leaders are trying to do in Congress right now — shutting down pollution rules that protect public health.