Sentences with phrase «to discriminate against gays»

It opens the door for someone to discriminate against gay people because of their views on the subject, or so any of thousands of religious based nonsense.

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.

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

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

The division ruled that the boardwalk property was open for public use, therefore the Methodist group could not discriminate against gay couples using it.

If, for example, there is no God then the people who discriminate against gays really are causing a lot of unnecessary suffering, but if there is a God then they're still causing these people suffering and for what?

I'm glad this right wing business with its old outdated founded who has long preached his hate speech while discriminating against gays in his business is being exposed.

Youth groups: The city of Berkeley, Calif., requested that the Sea Scouts (affiliated with the Boy Scouts) formally agree to not discriminate against gay men in exchange for free use of berths in the city's marina.

Many of them openly discriminate against gay students and students with gay parents.

To the under - 30s the idea of discriminating against gays seems as absurd as discriminating against blacks became a generation ago.

Last week, the House and Senate decided to remove a provision in a charter school bill that banned the schools from discriminating against gay students.

It's perfectly fair to say that TWU should be prohibited from discriminating against gays and lesbians, but that requires an amendment to the BC human rights code (and may raise some charter issues), and is properly the purview of the BC legislature, not the LSBC.

There's no evidence that the chain is discriminating against gays when hiring or serving in any way.

The Christian owners of a bakery found to have discriminated against a gay rights activist take their... More

I've already heard from a mom whose son came home from the Scout meeting in which he and his friends were informed that the church that sponsored them was pulling their funding because the Scouts no longer discriminate against gay boys.

The ruling by Manhattan federal court judge Barbara Jones followed a decision last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in Boston that concluded the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gay couples.

A decision holding that DOMA violates the Constitution because marriage is traditionally a matter for the states to regulate would have little if any impact beyond DOMA, because then the Court would not need to settle on a test to use to determine whether a law unconstitutionally discriminates against gays and lesbians — a test that could in turn be used in challenges to the constitutionality of state laws prohibiting same - sex marriage.

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.

ALBANY — Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender members of the state Legislature are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo to issue an executive order banning state - funded travel to Indiana, in protest of the state's «Religious Freedom Restoration Act,» which has drawn widespread criticism from groups who say the law discriminates against gays and lesbians.

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.

This is potentially a major upset for gay rights, and could lead to confusion for employers who are left to wonder whether they could be sued if they or their staff discriminate against gay employees.

When a court in Northern Ireland ruled that Christian - owned Ashers Bakery discriminated against a gay man, commentators wasted no time in expressing their...

They expect people to stand up for them when they are discriminated against, but they find no problem with discriminating against gays and lesbians.

I saw the title, and thought this was going to be a «Chick - fil - a» story about World Vision discriminating against gays (I'm a little behind on my news gathering).

God discriminated against gays and originally wanted them all KILLED.

Rather, what is happening, is that the religious nutters are demanding that they be allowed to enact legislation discriminating against gay folks.

Chik - Fi - La has never discriminated against gays in their workplace.

It obviously discriminates against gays.

- LIE, Chicago has stated that they can't discriminate against the gay community and they are NOT denying them a permit.

An American court has unanimously upheld a ruling and a $ 135,000 fine that two Christian bakery owners discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to make them a wedding cake almost five years ago.

it's funny the hot button topics on religion get hundreds of posts; the one about the catholic churuch discriminating against a gay couple get two pages of posts.

«While this policy change is not perfect — BSA's religious chartering partners will be allowed to continue to discriminate against gay adults — it is difficult to overstate the importance of today's announcement,» said Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout with two moms who is head of Scouts for Equality, which has been urging BSA to adopt more inclusive policies for some time.

(CNN)- All signs indicate Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will likely veto politically - charged legislation that supporters say promotes religious freedom and opponents contend discriminates against gays and lesbians.

But it currently discriminates against gays and lesbians, and that shouldn't be allowed.

The Lords last night backed the government and approved sexual equality regulations that will prevent church agencies discriminating against gay couples.

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

The Court of Appeal recently dismissed an appeal by a Christian bed and breakfast owner, upholding the decision that she unlawfully discriminated against a gay couple by refusing to provide them with a double bedroom.

Tellingly, it does not appear that the BC College of Teachers has had much success (if any) in dismissing graduates from TWU from the teaching profession on the grounds that they actually discriminated against gay or lesbian students, which suggest that, in fact, TWU graduates are not generally homophobes.

The appellate court agreed that there is no rational basis for discriminating against gay adoptive parents and that the statute was unconstitutional.

As if people are angry about a private company's Christian roots and practices, rather than the fact that they provide support to groups who discriminate against gays.

They're not the ones holding us back as a society by trying to discriminate against gay people, take rights away from women, or force their mythology into science classes at public schools.

Unless things change soon, North Carolina taxpayers will be on the hook for at least $ 145 million a year for a voucher scheme that funds private, mostly religious schools with no idea about what the schools teach or how most of the students are doing academically, not to mention that the publicly funded schools can openly discriminate against gay students or kids with gay parents.

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.

The Christian owners of a bakery found to have discriminated against a gay rights activist take their case to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (CNN)- President Barack Obama on Monday declared that the Defense of Marriage Act discriminates against gays and lesbians, even as his administration moved in federal court to defend the law.