That defeat was spearheaded by the Conservative, Lady O'Cathain, and was based on issues like freedom of association.
We believe liberty includes freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association.
The case for same-sex marriage rests on the libertarian ideals of freedom of association that the antidiscrimination law rejects.
True closed-shop contracts are already prohibited by federal law, on the grounds that they violate the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of association.
But he leaves unaddressed the most likely counter-argument: that a democratic state is a free association and freedom of association involves a right of exclusion.
And Jane Kinninmont, a Bahrain expert and senior research fellow at London's Chatham House, has argued that it is not just freedom of association that is under threat.
The First Amendment claim was similarly an argument that his right to freedom of association was unconstitutionally infringed by virtue of the threat of criminal prosecution for mere non-criminal membership.
When his case made it to the Supreme Court in 2000, the court ruled that it would violate the Boy Scouts' First Amendment protection of freedom of association to require that it accept gay members.
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Al-Assad on Tuesday accepted the terms of the peace plan brokered by Annan that included an end to all violence by the government and opposition, the delivery of timely humanitarian aid, the release of arbitrarily detained people, freedom of movement for journalists, respect for peaceful demonstrations and freedom of association.
Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of association because it forces people to become de facto members of the local field-sports association.
Jan Kleijssen, Director of Standard Setting in the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, and William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative, Association of European Journalists, will also speak.
William Horsley is Media Freedom Representative of the Association of European Journalists.
The details of free school applicants was originally requested under the Freedom of Information Act by the Guardian newspaper, the Association of Colleges (AoC) and the British Humanist Association (BHA).
And, outside of Texas, the National Governors' Association is lobbying to increase the freedom of states to determine how to organize and administer assistance programs.
The letter was also signed by the Association of Colleges, the Independent Academies Association, the Principals Professional Council and the Freedom and Autonomy for Schools National Association.
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In 2008, the Illinois State Rifle Association gave the Reeses the Defenders of Freedom Award.
The Freedom Pass will allow them to see details of every council and housing association tenant looking to exchange.
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The American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom released its annual list of most frequently challenged books of 2011 yesterday, and the increased popularity of Suzanne Collins' dystopian saga -- in large part fueled by buzz surrounding the blockbuster film -- drove the books higher on the list.
The Internet Service Providers Association said any change in the law must be "proportionate, respect freedom of expression and the privacy of users".
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