Jewel Hall said her son had once trained as a civil right activist, been an avid reader and played football.
Two months ago, it looked almost certain that Californians would reject the measure, feeling that it stripped fellow citizens of an important civil right.
He added that there was "no human or civil right" for commuters to be able to park on the streets "unlike what some people think".
Asserting access to athletic programs as a civil right is a big step forward for our education system and, of course, for people with disabilities.
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The same court, dominated by Republican appointees, ruled in May 2008 that the state constitution guaranteed gay and lesbian couples the "basic civil right" to marry.
Technology can play a key role in providing innovative ways to solve educational and societal issues, such as learning to read, which is, in fact, a basic civil right.
There are also far-left activist groups that see citizenship for illegal immigrants as a "civil right" and will push to water down border security and enforcement measures that are critical to reform's long-term success.
If the right to -- if the opportunity to enjoy the same rights, same-sex couples or straight couples or whatever, is a basic civil right, how can you square that with saying we leave it up to the states?
Petitioner argues that it was his civil right to reproduce, that he should have the freedom to choose the method of reproduction, and that it is sex discrimination to allow women but not men to choose how they will reproduce.
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Decisions about issues like civil unions or right-to-die legislation should be made by the states, not the federal government.
On February 2nd eight couples four straight and denied the right to register a civil partnership, and four gay, denied the right to marry filed suit in the European Court of Human Rights against the government, alleging discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
And with the rise of the far right, civil society itself is more hostile.
The civil provision creates a right to reinstatement, back pay and damages for whistle-blowers.
The Iranian people believe they have the right to civil nuclear energy.
In its split decision, the panel found that Proposition 8 "works a meaningful harm to gays and lesbians" by denying their right to civil marriage.
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For some governments there is an issue just about having the capacity - the civil servants with the right skills for example - to implement complex agreements.
Public opinion is too tolerant if it regards with equanimity a president whose friends are obliged to draw careful distinctions between different kinds of perjury (as in, perjury in an unsuccessful civil case is all right).
In short, right now American civil and criminal penalties are ineffective, while Chinese enforcement is nonexistent.
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From April 2011, same-sex couples have the right to a civil partnership and to adopt.
They have civil rights - including the right to vote and run for the Knesset of course - but many still feel marginalised or excluded.
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Other countries, such as Colombia, do not recognise gay marriage but do offer civil guarantees, including the right to draw a pension if one partner dies.
There is virtually no Muslim land where religious minorities and dissident Muslims enjoy unimpeded civil rights, like the right to build places of worship without big bureaucratic hurdles.
If this ever turned into open hostilities, the consequences could be devastating which is why, however much outside powers want regime change in North Korea, they are right to fear civil war still more.
But there is also a small but robust cohort of heterosexual couples uneasy about entering what they see as the patriarchal state of marriage, or unwilling to embrace it if their gay friends cannot who want the right to form civil partnerships, currently reserved for same-sex pairs.
Now what they're invoking here is a judicial privilege, saying that you lose your right to bring a civil suit because it would endanger national security.
As a cause, killing the bill unites the Christian Coalition with the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Right to Life Committee with the National Education Association.
Of the 577 members of parliament elected in 1997, 295 came from the civil service, many with the right to return to their posts should politics not work out.
But the ones like California, which have granted same-sex couples the right to enter into civil unions, adopt children, and partake in other actions normally afforded to married opposite-sex couples, should not be able to deprive same-sex couples the full fruits of the institution of marriage.
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