Sentences with phrase «with civil unions»

Our job is to fulfill the legal issue, and we can do that with civil unions,» Van Drew said.

I have no problems with civil unions, hetero or otherwise.

If it was about equal rights the Gay community and Christian could have found common ground with civil unions out of respect for Christians.

I'm ok with civil unions.

Otherwise, I don't have a problem with civil unions.

I have a problem with calling it «marriage», I'm OK with the civil union part of it.»

Not exact matches

The American Civil Liberties Union, along with co-counsel representing the Center for Investigative...

Project Galileo comes with the backing of the NGOs such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Reporters Without Borders.

Before reporting an incident of sexual harassment to a higher authority, Gillian Thomas, who is a senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Women's Rights Project, says it's always best to speak with the person affected by the incident first.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

Both were health care giants with proud histories — Squibb had supplied medications to the Union Army during the Civil War and marketed the first electric toothbrush; Bristol - Myers provided penicillin to U.S. forces during World War II and briefly ran Palomar Pictures, the studio responsible for The Stepford Wives.

Will the SEC take this opportunity to clarify that same - sex couples in civil unions, domestic partnerships, and similar legal relationships intended to give them at least some of the economic benefits of marriage, are «spouses» to one another, and thus eligible for the alternative accredited investor qualification standard made available to persons who are married (with the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down Section 3 of DOMA, it is already clear that persons in same - sex marriages are «spouses» to one another)?

The nearly century - old American Civil Liberties Union and its foundations raised about $ 146 million last year, and they're seeing record donations this year, with support from Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Lyft Inc. and other companies.

In her victory speech Ms Notley said «Whether you are a business leader, a union leader, a municipal leader, someone who leads in civil society, or just a plain Albertan — the Legislature belongs to you; the government belongs to you, and you will be treated with respect.»

Lastly, Doug wonders if the question of civil union partnerships might be dealt with in the SEC's overdue rulemaking (it's going to happen sometime, isn't it?)

The ruling is a win for the American Civil Liberties Union in its ongoing legal battle with the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Call it a civil union to get around the religious technicality of the term and be done with it.

Tens of thousands of christian bodies in the western world have thoughtlessly, or perhaps knowingly entered into this spiritually adulterous union with their civil governments.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, lawyers, legislators and judges have been similarly forced to deal with the issue because of the numerous bills and civil suits demanding equal time for creatioCivil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, lawyers, legislators and judges have been similarly forced to deal with the issue because of the numerous bills and civil suits demanding equal time for creatiocivil suits demanding equal time for creationism.

Boldest: Nadia Bolz Weber with «My Testimony at the Colorado Senate Judiciary Hearing on Civil Unions»

Of special interest are statements by Bishop John Carroll of Baltimore on Catholic understandings of the American constitutional order, and several documents from the hand of Bishop («Dagger John») Hughes of New York on sundry questions, including an illuminating exchange with Bishop Patrick Lynch of Charleston on the justice of the Union cause in the Civil War.

I know, its the cowards way out but I just do not know because civil unions many folks agree with but folks having issues with using the term «marriage», I can see both sides to a point that I am stumped on an opinion.

Civil unions (providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name) are better, because a «separate but equal» institution is always constitutional.

The Soviet Union today is honeycombed with small underground groups — which help to explain why «civil rights», issues are so threatening to the government there.

They also have a hard time with not endorsing gay marriage and will lie and say that civil unions do nt provide them the same protection which is a lie and some states do in fact have these laws on the books.

Meanwhile polling from other regions show that while support for same sex marriages or civil unions have increased across the country, the growth of support is not uniform, with a significantly lower level of support occurring in the Deep South compared to the rest of the country.

The author is in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Thus I remain in favor of «civil union» as a concept more in keeping with our restrained sense of law and less tilted toward the equating of gay and heterosexual unions.

Take, for instance, last summer the State of Illinois revoked Catholic Charity's adoption and foster care licensebecause Catholic Charities didn't comply with the «Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Union Act,» which says gay couples must be treated the same way as heterosexual couples.

Just don't murder innocent babies and call your civil unions marriage (which conservatives didn't originate — God did, so take it up with Him) and we'll leave you alone to your own devices.

The Civil Liberties Union's handling of the creationist case abets the historical drift these quotations point to with logic that runs roughly as follows:

In American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio v. Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, the nation's loudest antireligious agitator, along with the help of a Presbyterian minister, once again fled to the protective bosom of the Religion Clause of the First Amendment.

The NFL Players» Union issued a statement defending its members right to free speech, saying «It is a source of enormous pride that some of the best conversations about these issues have taken place in our locker rooms in a respectful, civil and thoughtful way that should serve as a model for how all of us can communicate with each other.

Proposition 8 deals only with marriage and would allow for civil unions.)

As it happened with poligamy (it was stopped as a condition to join the union) and priesthood to the blacks (civil right movements), these wacko practices will eventually stop by a convenient «revelation».

I am a born again Christian Protestant, open minded, and I DO N'T have a problem with G a y Rights and Civil Unions!

RESIST Agrochemical TNCs together with the All UP Academic Employees Union and NNARA — Youth UP Manila conducted a Round Table Discussion with civil society organizations regarding the imminent approval of Golden Rice application for direct use and open field testing.

Since our state doesn't recognize a same - sex couple with marriage, civil unions or a domestic partnership, we knew we would face extra hurdles to becoming parents.

4) Facilitation / Divorce Co-ordinator (Couples / Family): Facilitation can be used to resolve any type of family dispute — divorce (financial aspects, contact and care, rights and responsibilities in respect of the parents to the children, holiday contact, maintenance issues), post-divorce disputes (ongoing contact, disputes with regard to joint decisions to be made between the parties etc), maintenance, permanent relationship or civil union disputes, relocation matters, testamentary division.

Last week, whilst teaching a course at Colorado College, I wrote a piece for The Economist about a bill to allow civil unions in the state, which was combined with reporting on Obama's announcement in support of gay marriage and that passage of North Carolina's constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Duprey voted «no» in 2007, but then changed her position when he measure came up again in 2009, explaining she had become convinced that civil unions would not provide gay couples with the same equality as marriage.

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This was a big switch for the former Blue Dog congresswoman, who had previously supported civil unions — much like Sen. Chuck Schumer (although he has since changed his position, too) and President Obama, who now says he's still struggling with this subject, but his views are evolving.

Do not confuse the confederal union here with the much later Confederate States that fought and were defeated in the Civil War.

The state's highest court will decide whether to make NYPD disciplinary records public in a case filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union with the support of multiple news organizations.

On same - sex marriage, he says he is for civil unions and says his position is basically in line with President Obama's.

Donovan has made it clear he personally opposes gay marriage, but supports civil unions — a position his campaign has repeatedly noted he shares with Democratic President Barack Obama.

The video is a rap - spoof of a media interview with «General Baxter, representing AFRICOM», probably a play on the American Union Army General Henry Baxter (1821 — 1873) who fought during the American Civil War.

And by your vote, you will have reaffirmed the ideal of a union where we are together by choice, not banned from leaving as in the kind of federal state born with the American civil war, 150 years ago.

The American Civil Liberties Union said lawmakers were bowing to White House pressure with the bill it said would provide no protections for Americans communicating with people abroad.