To some church leaders -- who say they will not be able to give people rides, invite them to worship services or perform marriages and baptisms -- the law essentially criminalizes basic parts of Christian ministry.
The child of a black father and white mother born when such unions were criminalized in parts of the United States, Lythcott-Haims details her struggles as a biracial child and adult feeling like an outsider among both blacks and whites.
The capacity of humans to marginalize, demonized, objectify and criminalize others is a part of life, the presence of God notwithstanding.
For Stella, criminalizing the client is part of the problem, not the solution and the perverse effect of the law is that it just shifts the risk to another group and actually makes sex workers more vulnerable.
I think the move to get sex work and pornography regulated and criminalized in various parts of the world is problematic.
In its brief, and in oral arguments, the State of Texas justified criminalizing same-sex sodomy as part of its "promotion of morality".
The suggestions to criminalize the most serious cases are part of a broader set of proposals intended to strengthen laws on banking, insurance and securities trading, where fines are considered too low, or penalties too weak, to deter wrongdoing.
Allen has been regularly involved in Washington state politics in recent years, spending millions to back efforts to criminalize the sale of endangered animal parts in 2015.
International criminal law, which includes genocide, provides for ways to criminalize the conduct of individuals who have taken part in mass atrocities — not for passing judgment on history.
Article 190, Part 1 of the Soviet Criminal Code criminalized "the dissemination of the intentionally false insinuations defiling the Soviet state and social order".
