Sentences with phrase «supporting equal marriage»

As a result, Sean has pledged to fight endlessly for the freedom of the LGBT community, supporting equal marriage rights and fighting discrimination in the job and housing markets.

Stonewall only switched to support equal marriage in late 2010, after a coalition of other organisations had done the groundwork and after they faced a huge LGBT backlash — including harsh criticism from two of their founders, Ian McKellen and Michael Cashman.

New equalities minister Caroline Dinenage has stated that she now supports equal marriage — having voted against it in 2013.

At the same time, Republican candidates inclined to support equal marriage rights face the political reality that only 41 percent of Republican voters feel the same way.

Not exact matches

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

The NAACP's support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution and equal protection of all people» said NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, a strong backer of gay rights.

Expressing his support for LGBT rights and equal marriage, he initially declined to explain his stance on gay sex.

Do you know that many Christans support equal rights for LBGT Americans but do not support G - ay marriage laws?

With the most successful campaigns of the past several years in both the political and advocacy spheres having a viral component (remember that time all of your Facebook friends changed their profile pictures to equal signs to show their support for marriage equality?)

As such, he managed to line up a larger number of progressive voters, but disapproval of the current government and a 67 % of Costa Ricans opposing equal marriage have made it hard to extend his support base.

Maria Miller is being pursued by the press because of her role in implementing press regulation and support of equal marriage, her parliamentary aide has claimed.

He is among a handful of Republicans in Congress to support same - sex marriage, and was the only GOP member to support the Equal Rights Amendment for women.

By late 2010, we had broad cross-party support: the Greens, Lib Dems and Labour officially endorsed equal marriage.

Hanna stood out nationally as the only Republican in Congress to support same - sex marriage, a woman's right to an abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equal rights for wEqual Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equal rights for wequal rights for women.

And should it be used to persecute a minority that is simply seeking equal rights?If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 23).

Hanna, of Barneveld in Oneida County, stood out as the only Republican in Congress to support a combination of abortion rights, same - sex marriage and the Equal Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equal rights for wEqual Rights Amendment, guaranteeing equal rights for wequal rights for women.

She also listed allowing openly LGBT armed forces members and supporting in Parliament the «important piece of legislation that we are debating now on equal marriage.»

Struggling with my traditionalist view of marriage and my deep rooted values to treat all people with respect and as equals, I believe after much deliberation, I am doing the right thing in voting to support marriage equality.

For me to support marriage equality, however, it was imperative that the legislation contain all the necessary religious exemptions, so as not to interfere with religious beliefs which I hold as important as equal rights.

With 53 percent of the American people in separate polls by The Post and Gallup supporting gay marriage, Obama is effectively behind the country on this equal rights issue.

Governor Cuomo, who won national praise and attention for championing the passage of same sex marriage in New York, calls President Obama's support of gay marriage a «major advancement for equal rights in this country».

What is the mindset of the people who support equal civil rights for homosexuals but disagree with Obergefell v. Hodges because it redefines the word «marriage», which they believe is a sacred thing...

The BHA has responded in light of remarks made by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, stating that the Church of England would not support permit civil partnership ceremonies to be held in its churches, nor would it support any attempts to have equal gay marriage.

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As the nature of marriage becomes more complex with partners bringing assets, income, and property into a union on an increasingly equal basis, the decision to award one party support or a larger share of communal property is no longer a simple equation — time put into a union against lost income — or any similarly simplistic comparison.

Whether it was after the loss of a game, or the loss of a job, Eric and Tami were a «marriage of equals» that continually served as each other's primary source of social support.

He opposes mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions, supports inclusion of reproductive health insurance in company insurance plans, and supports same - sex marriage and equal benefits for same - sex couples.

This reasoning is supported by our earlier finding that the level of «closeness» in marriage was less in depressed, discordant wives than non-depressed, discordant wives despite their equal levels of overall marital discord (Beach et al. 1988).

A national Gallup poll in May 2011 found 53 percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, which is a marked reversal from just a year ago, when an equal majority opposed same - sex matrimony.