For me, this is as much an issue of women having access to the same benefits, privileges and respect their male colleagues enjoy as equality of pay, which is obviously crucial too.
"These terrorists and delinquents," the Cuban government said in a statement broadcast today, "are encouraged by the policy of tolerance, resources, benefits, privileges, shelter and propaganda that governments of the United States have applied for more than 40 years to try to create and support counterrevolutionary movements".
Treating same-sex couples differently for federal law benefits, privileges and responsibilities has no constitutional justification even under the lowest standard of review - rational basis.
If they have all of the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities of marriage, I reasoned, there was no need for same-sex couples to actually use the term "marriage".
As opposed to "oppression," I define "social justice" as the concept that local, national and global communities functioning where everyone has equal access to and equitable distribution of the rights, benefits, privileges and resources, and where everyone can live freely unencumbered by social constructions of hierarchical positions of domination and subordination".
So El Papa considers denying LGBTQ people (his children) the rights of marriage and adoption and to their sexuality and gender identities and expressions; denying us the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities of legalized partnerships and families; and denying us the right to be named and serve as godparents.
So El Papa has hardened and extended the already unfathomable Catholic walls by denying LGBTQ people (his "children") the rights of marriage and adoption and to their sexuality and gender identities and expressions; denying them the benefits, privileges, and responsibilities of legalized partnerships and families; and denying them the right to be named and serve as godparents.
Citing the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, they argued that the Ohio ban singles them out for discriminatory treatment, denying them many of the benefits, privileges and responsibilities that similarly situated, opposite-sex married couples in Ohio enjoy.
But several of the former farmers told your correspondent that they were still barred from the unemployment benefits and other welfare privileges of city dwellers even though their farmland had been grabbed from them.
The family and friends of politicians and civil servants expect "to benefit from privilege", says Gary Victor, a novelist.
