Sentences with phrase «say discriminate against gay»

He's also stuck his neck out on LGBTQ issues, pushing fellow business leaders to take a stand against laws in the state of Indiana that critics say discriminate against gay and transgender people.

Not exact matches

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

The Late Show host also spoke to Cook about his decision last year to publicly announce that he is gay, as well as the Apple CEO's efforts to increase the company's charitable works: «It became so clear to me that kids were getting bullied in school, kids were getting discriminated against, kids were even being [disowned] by their own parents,» Cook said.

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, the most prominent openly gay executive, assailed a new Indiana law that critics say could make it legal for businesses there to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

«I was attacking the argument that gay people must be discriminated against — and anti-bullying programs that address anti-gay bullying should be blocked (or exceptions should be made for bullying «motivated by faith»)-- because it says right there in the Bible that being gay is wrong.»

If I understand correctly, you are saying it is moral to discriminate against gays because it is against your religion to be gay.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

Critics say the Indiana law — and a pending religious liberty law in Arkansas — gives religious people a free pass to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Christianity is what's touted as the only «reason» (yeah... I say that word with tongue - in - cheek)... to discriminate against gays in this country.

And regardless of what anybody says, the only reason people discriminate openly against gay people this way is because of religion.

The owners were found to have discriminated against a customer based on his sexual orientation after they refused to make a cake which said «support gay marriage».

What I meant to say is that the religion of a candidate will certainly influence his politics — how could someone who's religion discriminates against a «gay lifestyle» pass legislation that supports gay equality and abolishes the second - class citizen status of gay people?

Clinton's campaign, in a statement, said Pence is the «most extreme» vice presidential pick in a generation, citing his strong anti-abortion stance and a 2015 religious liberty bill he signed that allows businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

Otter said he did not believe any Idahoans purposefully discriminate against gays.

While Russian officials say the law is meant to protect children and not discriminate against gays, it appears to assume that children can be converted to homosexuality by hearing about it.

He's rendered himself unelectable on a national scale - how could he possibly appeal to ANY minorities at his point, including gay people (after his AG Cuccelli wrote a memo essentially saying VA Universities could discriminate against gays?).

They said the law, which makes it illegal to discriminate against gay applicants, went against their beliefs.

This is part of a victimhood narrative in which, it is said, people are being penalised «for being Christians» (read: for discriminating against gay clients) in various roles such as registrars, relationship counsellors, would - be adopters, and hotel proprietors.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lifted a ban on some state - funded travel to Indiana, saying he believes changes made to an Indiana religious - objections law will keep it from being used to discriminate against gay people.

But critics said they could be used to discriminate against gays.

TWU «can be anti-gay, they can truly believe that, they can think it, they can say it, they can pray about it, they can write about it, they can lecture about it, but they can't take that additional step of discriminating against gay applicants and gay students,» she tells Legal Feeds.

One of the cases being heard in Belfast will be Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd, in which the Justices will hear arguments on whether a bakery directly discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation when the bakery said they could not fulfil an order for a cake with «Support Gay Marriage» written on it because of their religious beliefs.