Sentences with phrase «sex marriage advocates»

AP: What lessons can civil partnership and same - sex marriage advocates in other parts of the world take from this victory?

Two years ago, same sex marriage advocates rallied behind Senate Democrats, donating nearly a million dollars to their campaign coffers — in hopes that a Democratic majority would finally lead to the legalization of same sex marriage.

But Cuomo's letter also coincides with a renewed push from same - sex marriage advocates and groups who had hoped McDonald would stay in the race.

Same - sex marriage advocates had nicknamed him the Counter, after he told them his vote would hinge entirely on a tally of his constituents who appealed to him for or against the measure.

Johnson's defeat was a blow to same - sex marriage advocates, who worked hard after the December 2009 defeat of the bill in the Senate to oust «no» voting senators — both Democrats and Republicans.

Same - sex marriage advocates and Jackson Heights residents Patricia Glunt (l.), who has been with her partner 15 years, and Gary Gilbert, who married his partner of 27 years in Montreal, shake hands following a rally against Sen. Hiram Monserrate.

Same - sex marriage advocates say the governor needs to win over at least six members of the Senate — and, most likely, a few Republicans, none of whom backed the bill in 2009.

The two tight races and likely loss of one or more of the «yes» voters is bad news for the same - sex marriage advocates — or good news for the opponents, depending on how you see it.

In addition to the online contributions, McDonald received checks from prominent same - sex marriage advocates, including $ 10,300 from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and $ 5,000 each from actor David Hyde Pierce and his spouse Brian Hargrove.

Gov. Cuomo held a not - so - secret meeting today with same - sex marriage advocates to discuss their strategy for moving a same - sex marriage bill through the legislature.

The problem with this assertion is that it is demonstrably false ¯ unless one indulges in a Clintonian manipulation of the term «leader» («it all depends on what the meaning of is is») to exclude conveniently the many same - sex marriage advocates who signed the statement.

For same - sex marriage advocates, victory means a new moral consensus, which seems more important to them than other people's consciences.

Wilson's first argument was against the cavalierness of same - sex marriage advocates, who propose a massive social change with little idea how it will shake out:

In fact, same - sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.»

In his historical blindness and moral excitability, today's same - sex marriage advocate resembles no one so much as the temperance woman who, one century ago, encouraged a social change contrary to good sense and human nature.

There is no same - sex marriage advocate more politically astute than Jon Rauch, and he lost no time in replying.

Same Sex Meritage by Stein Family Wines This beautiful Meritage, a Bordeaux - style blend from California, comes from same sex marriage advocate and Josh Stein.

Not exact matches

Same - sex marriage's journey from minority status to the law of the land offers important lessons about gaining broad - based public support that fiduciary advocates can gain from.

In his superb defense of freedom of thought and opinion, Matthew J. Franck does not carry through his unblinking realism in analyzing the arguments for same - sex marriage to his conclusion, where he evinces a Pollyannaish hope that the «strategy pursued by the advocates of same - sex marriage will be self - defeating.»

That decision applies to just the two couples named in the suit (same - sex advocates declined to file a class - action suit) leaving the future of marriage policy in California in question.

He had advocated for the church to allow gay and lesbian leaders, campaigned against California's same - sex marriage ban and disputed deeply held church doctrines about the End Times.

Whenever I post a cartoon that reveals my advocacy for the LGBT community and for marriage equality, I usually get comments that if I advocate that, then I'm also advocating pedophilia, rape, bestiality, sex slavery and more.

Of course, not all advocates of same - sex marriage call those who disagree bigots, homophobes, or haters.

(Except, of course, for those who advocate same - sex «marriage.»)

The Future of Marriage begins with and repeatedly returns to a conversation with prominent attorney and gay rights advocate Evan Wolfson that left Blankenhorn extremely worried that the «movement for same - sex marriage is going to winMarriage begins with and repeatedly returns to a conversation with prominent attorney and gay rights advocate Evan Wolfson that left Blankenhorn extremely worried that the «movement for same - sex marriage is going to winmarriage is going to win.»

The book is a theological argument advocating for the inclusion of same - sex marriages into the Christian communion.

Concerned that the civility and decorum exhibited by many LGBT rights advocates might make their arguments more persuasive, Anyabwile suggests that the key to «winning» the same - sex marriage debate is speak more graphically about gay sex in order to induce the «gag reflex.»

It establishes the properties or the terms of argument that the advocates of same - sex marriage simply can not meet.

Some of the most humane and beautiful Christian writing I've read in recent years has come from same - sex - marriage advocates like the Episcopalian Eugene Rogers and the British feminist theologian Sarah Coakley.

It puts in place demands that the advocates of same - sex marriage would themselves have trouble in meeting.

And he has aptly warned the advocates of same - sex marriage that they can not offer a principle that would support their position and yet reject polygamy.

«That said, if the churches do not take the opportunity now to «advocate» and «teach» why same - sex marriage is wrong for everyone (i.e., harmful to children, to the couple, and undermining of a culture of marriage), religious people should not expect to find a lot of sympathy for their right to exercise their religious freedom to dissent from same - sex marriage,» Esbeck told CT. «In other words, church leaders no longer enjoy the luxury of not teaching biblical marriage, as much as large numbers of the laity don't want to hear it.

«It must be emphasized that religions, and those who adhere to religious doctrines, may continue to advocate with utmost, sincere conviction that, by divine precepts, same - sex marriage should not be condoned,» writes Kennedy in a paragraph that will likely become the focus of scrutiny by church - state experts.

The couple decided from the beginning of their relationship to save sex for marriage and have since become advocates for the principle.

One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.

Full protection of such freedom would create such a honeycomb of «recognition here, but not there» that advocates of same - sex marriage would find it intolerable.

As the Nazis willfully altered the meaning of German words for ideological reasons, and the Soviet Communists altered the meaning of Russian words (or coined expressions like «former persons) for ideological reasons, so too the advocates of assisted suicide want to banish words like «suicide» and «killing» from discussions of the subject in order to gain an ideological advantage, and same - sex «marriage» advocates want to change the meaning of «marriage» for ideological reasons.

N.T. Wright no more likened same - sex «marriage» advocates to Nazis and Communists than I am likening her to a planetary body in the following analogy: as the moon orbits the earth, so the mind of Ms. Moon orbits an empty space devoid of logic.

On «young Christian adults», sounds like you are advocating people rushing into marriage so they can have sex.

I think that Rauch did about as well as an astute «gay marriage» advocate could do in dealing with the political problem created for his cause by the «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» stmarriage» advocate could do in dealing with the political problem created for his cause by the «Beyond Same - Sex Marriage» stMarriage» statement.

Advocates for gay clergy and same - sex marriage in the UMC viewed the compromise proposals as the best chance to advance their cause at this year's General Conference, which convenes every four years.

Whenever I post a cartoon that reveals my advocacy for the LGBT community and for marriage equality, I usually get comments that if I advocate that, then I'm also advocating pedophilia, rape, bestiality, sex...

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Advocates and Cuomo have contended all along that the same - sex marriage bill is a civil matter and that enough protections are already enshrined in the Human Rights Law.

Senate Democratic Leader John Sampson is under fire from LGBT advocates who are increasingly disillusioned and unhappy with his stance on same - sex marriage.

(It's worth noting here that Donovan's biggest supporter is Mayor Bloomberg, who has become an outspoken advocate of same - sex marriage in recent years).

She has lobbied on behalf of AEQ in the past and is an outspoken advocate for same - sex marriage.

Instead, the P.S. could have reinforced the primary ask, or sent people to a page that had more info about same - sex marriage and how to advocate for it, or even asked for donations to an OUTSIDE group that works on the issue.

Acepto, a group that advocates for marriage rights for same - sex couples, previously told the Washington Blade the ruling is likely the first time the Cuban government has legally recognized a same - sex couple.

Still, Long became tripped up a bit on the same - sex marriage issue in the NY1 / YNN debate this month, saying that as a U.S. senator she wouldn't advocate against repeal of the New York law at all, allowing for Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos to score a point in the forum.