Mr. STEVEN GOLDSTEIN (Director, Garden State Equality): The label of civil union makes me want to throw up.
It has seen advantages in the doctrine of state equality (which it uses to defend against human-rights complaints) and has gained from the liberalization of trade.
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It has been called both a "resounding success" by Steve Goldstein, head of the gay-rights group Garden State Equality, and a "bureaucratic nightmare" by James O'Neill, the interim school superintendent of the township of Roxbury.
Social inclusion, rule of law, security sector transformation, land reform, good governance, equality and inclusive growth, state restructuring, and employment acceleration are recognized as key elements of the CPA and the wider peace building process.
Certain ideas about equality are woven into the fabric of the liberal state, and quite inseparable from it: first and foremost, equality before the law.
Critics can question the timing of his remarks but the reality is, he didn't have to state his support for marriage equality before the election.
On the contrary, they insist, it is those who do not accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state who undermine the principle of equality, by denying to the Jews the right of self-determination they extend to others.
So even where gay couples enjoy all the legal benefits of marriage under state law, they do not enjoy equality under federal law.
For example, in March 2012, the Secretary of State issued Policy Guidance on Promoting Gender Equality to Achieve our National Security and Foreign Policy Objectives, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator released Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Policy.
While the state had been an "important engine for greater race equality" through legislation to outlaw racist practices, the private sector had failed to go nearly so far.
In America the state of Minnesota is a perfect laboratory to see where economic equality and multiculturalism are in conflict.
Its ultimate aim is independence, which it believes, will mean "direct representation and equality of status in Europe", with Scotland becoming a full member state.
Second, let us accept, whatever our differences over the war, it is in all our interests and in the interests of the peaceful majority in the Muslim world that Iraq be helped to be a sovereign, independent, stable, democratic state, where there is religious tolerance, human rights and equality for all.
And he spoke of the State of Israel in words that could well describe the struggle for equality in America.
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And, therefore, if you're going to create a Britain in which we truly have equality, you can't have institutionalised discrimination at the centre of the state.
But since the likelihood of this is just above 0%, this state-constructed distinction (marriage) should be available equally (equality under the law), regardless of genetic makeup (genetically gay or heterosexual).
But however deficient the practice, they say, there is no reason in principle why Israel cannot be both a Jewish state and a democracy whose non-Jewish citizens enjoy full civil equality.
Policies should not be crafted based on public perception or public misconceptions of economic policy, and equality is not in and of itself the primary goal of a more redistributive state.
Morocco's king, Mohammed VI, announced several reforms, including new parliamentary elections, civic and social equality for women, and recognition of the indigenous Berber language as an official state language along with Arabic.
What he did took a great deal of courage, especially considering that a recent Gallup poll showed 48% of Americans are against same-sex marriages and that North Carolina, a swing state he barely won four years ago, just voted against marriage equality and civil unions, with a vote of 61% to 39%.
However, funding formulas tend to stress equality among schools within the same district (and in some cases, the same state) even when the sources of funding are not equal.
"It merely says, and I quote, 'equality of rights shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex, " Maloney said.
The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance has released guidance on the effect of The Marriage Equality Act.
The state plays an essential role as defender of this principle, setting standards and norms that guarantee quality and equality of opportunity.
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