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Today we have been refused access to a legal institution because of our sexuality...In a democratic state, all institutions should be open to all people. We are going to take legal advice and take it to the European court of human rights if necessary....
Tags: equality, london, civil partnerships, United Kingdom, Same-sex marriage, Recognition of same-sex unions in Australia, Same-sex marriage in the United Kingdom, Social Issues, Law Crime, LGBT rights in the United Kingdom, Law in the United Kingdom, Civil partnership in the United Kingdom, Peter Tatchell, Civil Partnership Act, Homosexuality, Civil union, Marriage
In London this morning, Tuesday 24th November 2009, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle will give "notice of their intention to form a civil partnership". Nothing strange about that, you might think, but, as their names suggest, they are of opposite genders....
Tags: civil rights, equality, gay rights, heterosexuality, homophobia, homosexuality, United Kingdom, London, Peter Tatchell, Tom Freeman, Katherine Doyle, Will Phillips, Arkansas
We are advised that our foreign exchange reserves are better, but that has not made any difference to the people, especially the poor people. The paddy harvest in the re-vitalised Eastern sector has failed to prevent continued imports of rice. Above all,...
Tags: Bills in Parliament, base ones, Parliamentary, voting ones, government servants, depend ones, rebate systems, Sri Lanka, aged pensionable, disability persons, Equality
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become...
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…all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving...
Tags: gay marriage, gay, lesbian, ban, maine, proposition 1, prop 1, proposition 8, prop 8, conservative, liberal, california, marriage, civil unions, suppression, equality, family, republican, democrat
It's ironic. Today is Election Day and I find that very little of what happens matters to me. I couldn't care much less who is governor of Virginia or New Jersey, and a monkey could represent the 23rd district in New York for all it matters to me. There...
Tags: election day, gay marriage, equality
All men are created equal - unless you happen to be Black, American Indian, Jewish or ____________(fill in the blank)... Leo Frank is the only Jew to ever have been "lynched" in America, but it happened because he was a "northern" Jew...
Tags: Leo Franks, Jim Conley, Equality
Continuing from the United States Declaration of Independence (1776), that all men (people) are created equal, and "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Happiness,...
Tags: Life, Money, Time, United States, Declaration of Independence, Equality, Happiness, Liberty
Justice Scalia has said that segregation was not unconstitutional, and neither were the laws banning homosexual sex and abortion. Justice Antonin Scalia claims that his colleagues are inventing new rights. Phoenix based East Valley Tribune...
Tags: supreme, court, Justice, scalia, Breyer, abortion, sodomy, homosexual, gay, race, racism, racist, equality, equal, separate
I do not like the new and proposed policies of our current Government and it has nothing to do with the President....personally. I also hope the current health care legislation dies on the over polished legislative floor. It sure has nothing to do with...
Tags: government, legislation, race, sex, healthcare, liberal, left, democrats, republicans, President, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, war, equality, american dream, nationalization, ellis island, redistribution, wealth, communism, common good, boxer, debt, collapse, insurance, pre-existing, conditions, tort reform, mandatory, lawsuits, class action, lawyers