Sentences with phrase «work against gay»

Even if they shut up, they would still work against gay rights.

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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.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

A gay priest prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner will learn the outcome of an Appeal Court challenge over his claim he was discriminated against.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

1 Corinthians 11:14 (Men should not have long hair) 1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35 (Women should remain silent in church) Deuteronomy 13:6 - 16 (Death penalty for Apostasy) Deuteronomy 20:10 - 14 (Attack city, kill all men, keep women, children as spoils of war) Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 (Death penalty for a rebellious son) Deuteronomy 22:19 - 25 (Kill non - virgin / kill adulterers / rapists) Ecclesiastes 1:18 (Knowledge is bad) Exodus 21:1 - 7 (Rules for buying slaves) Exodus 35:2 (Death for working on the Sabbath) Ezekiel 9:5 - 6 (Murder women / children) Genesis 1:3,4,5,11,12,16 (God creates light, night and day, plants grow, before creating sun) Genesis 3:16 (Man shall rule over woman) Jeremiah 19:9 (Cannibalism) John 3:18 (He who believes in Jesus is saved, he that doesn't is condemned) John 5:46 - 47 (Jesus references Old Testament) Leviticus 3:1 - 17 (Procedure for animal sacrifice) Leviticus 19:19 (No mixed fabrics in clothing) Leviticus 19:27 (Don't trim hair or beard) Leviticus 19:28 (No tattoos) Leviticus 20:9 (Death for cursing father or mother) Leviticus 20:10 (Death for adultery) Leviticus 20:13 (Death for gay men) Leviticus 21:17 - 23 (Ugly people, lame, dwarfs, not welcome on altar) Leviticus 25:45 (Strangers can be bought as slaves) Luke 12:33 (Sell your possessions, and give to the poor) Luke 14:26 (You must hate your family and yourself to follow Jesus) Mark 10:11 - 12 (Leaving your spouse for another is adultery) Mark 10:21 - 22 (Sell your possessions and give to the poor) Mark 10:24 - 25 (Next to impossible for rich to get into heaven) Mark 16:15 - 16 (Those who hear the gospel and don't believe go to hell) Matthew 5:17 - 19 (Jesus says he has come to enforce the laws of the Old Testament) Matthew 6:5 - 6 (Pray in secret) Matthew 6:18 (Fast for Lent in secret) Matthew 9:12 (The healthy don't need a doctor, the sick do) Matthew 10:34 - 37 (Jesus comes with sword, turns families against each other, those that love family more than him are not worthy) Matthew 12:30 (If you're not with Jesus, you're against him) Matthew 15:4 (Death for not honouring your father and mother) Matthew 22:29 (Jesus references Old Testament) Matthew 24:37 (Jesus references Old Testament) Numbers 14:18 (Following generations blamed for the sins of previous ones) Psalms 137:9 (Violence against children) Revelation 6:13 (The stars fell to earth like figs) Revelation 21:8 (Unbelievers, among others, go to hell) 1 Timothy 2:11 - 12 (Women subordinate and must remain silent) 1 Timothy 5:8 (If you don't provide for your family, you are an infidel)

Then you assume that our work is to promote «simply believing that the Bible absolutely condemns gay sex as sin, that gay Christians need to be celibate to avoid hell, and to only discriminate against those who choose to actually have sex»....

These people would not allow any religion but Christianity to be seen in a good light if taught in classes in the USA, when history proves that, Christianity is the reason so many people in the USA have been motivated to lynch black people, make gays second class citizens, fought against woman being allowed to vote, hunted down and killed others from different denominations, force all other's to pay for their «work» whether in the USA or around the world through tax exempt status, gifts or «Faith - based initiatives».

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD, was working Tuesday to gather criticism of Worley's comments from other North Carolina pastors.

Earlier today before I departed for work, I pointed out the Biblical truths regarding the prohibitions against gay marriage in the BIble.

The religion of a company or its owner is not the point, it is when Dan Cathy «came out» and publicly proclaimed his position that gays should be deprived of the rights everyone else has, invoked the «wrath of his God» against gays, and it was discovered he was providing millions of dollars to groups working to deprive gays of their rights.

Chick Fil A as a business wasn't a problem until people discover it's owner contributed money to hate groups masked as «family values» that work against equal rights and protection of gays and lesbians.

I have several gay family members, but I have no problem with people who's beliefs are different (as long as they are not discriminating against others) I also know several openly gay / lesbians that work for Chick - fil - A and have felt very comfortable there, at least until others started causing an uproar.

Your boy - really smacks of alot of reverence?Franklin Graham has done many great things, such as head up a ministry called Samaritans Purse, which has done incredible work towards disaster relief.What have you done?He simply speaks the truth which is that this President has done more to distance himself against evangelical Christians by supporting liberal causes, using the world's largest stage to promote gay rights, and too many issues to mention that Mr.Obama's faith, or lack of, is obvious to everyone.Not to mention that he is the son of Billy Graham.

I was hoping for some more detailed and nuanced information, for example differences in populations of available children, differences in ability to discriminate against certain kinds of potential adoptive or foster parents (e.g., single, non-Christian, gay, etc.), differences in whom prospective parents work with (attorney?

«Iain Dale says that Parkinson can not be arguing against gay equality because Parkinson is himself gay» Unfortunately Conservative party LGBT people do work against the interests of other LGBT people.

And on Tuesday, the White House announced that Trump would not reverse President Obama's executive order on workplace discrimination against gays and lesbians working for federal contractors.

Rebel, rebel I disagreed with him [Cameron] about House of Lords reform, I disagreed with him about gay marriage... I voted against gay marriage because a huge number of my constituents were very, very worked up about it and I just saw no need to upset them in that way.

As will - they - or - won't - they speculation about the Senate gay marriage vote reaches a fever pitch at the Capitol, a source working closely with the Cuomo - estimablished New Yorkers for Marriage Equality coalition is warning the backlash against GOP lawmakers will be unlike anything seen before if a bill fails to reach the floor and pass.

For example, when asked on Monday about whether Trump would preserve an Obama - era executive order that bars discrimination against gays working for federal contractors, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he didn't know.

This retrospective video shows the history of GLSEN (the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network), an organization that works to encourage respect and combat discrimination and violence against LGBT youth in schools.

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Like much of Bradford's work, the installation addresses the discrimination and violence against black, gay, and other marginalized bodies.

Just recently, we saw how US artist Jordan Eagles has joined the protest over the gay blood donation ban, and there are numerous contemporary examples of the artists working against the social prejudices triggered by AIDS crisis all over the world.

The UN's Fifth Committee will decide how much money is provided to finance the work of human rights experts who investigate human rights violations in Burundi, Iran, Syria, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Belarus as well as violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans persons.

In our experience, adoption attorneys are less likely to discriminate against gays, but you will usually have to do more work on your own to find an expectant mother considering adoption.