Cheryl Jacques, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group, said the idea that schools were teaching gay propaganda was false and divisive, calling its inclusion in the context of prayer "a shame".
For much of the last decade, McCain gave the impression of having glimpsed the future more clearly than most of his party's aging leaders; he seemed to understand, much to the dismay of Republican culture warriors, that old causes of right and left were giving way to a less dogmatic and divisive call for reform.
Now a divisive application calls for officially naming dozens of square blocks in what many consider the heart of their neighborhood Little Bangladesh.
William Cunningham, one of Mr. Bloomberg's senior strategists, called upon Mr. Green and his top advisers to take a lie detector test about his campaign's involvement in the racially divisive telephone calls and pamphlets.
Whenever somebody says anti-racism is divisive, or calling out racism creates more harm than good – that's your chance to speak out.
Coming from someone known for good manners and not for divisive name calling in the style of Newt Gingrich, that certainly sounded to many like a promise that he would work carefully to build consensus.
The Giants must now wait to see whether they are chosen by Warrington under the deeply divisive Club Call initiative, now in its fifth year, in next week's semi finals.
The former Texas governor added: "It is time to elevate our debate from divisive name-calling, from soundbites without solutions, and start discussing how we will make the country better for all if a conservative is elected president".
Although the mayor has never been particularly known for dramatic gestures, he said the flag's divisive presence called for an updated use of an old civil rights technique.
He is relishing a last play-off run at the sharp end of coaching, and the Dragons shape as dangerous underdogs at injury-hit St Helens, who chose to face them rather than Warrington in the last year of Super League's innovative but divisive Club Call system.
Donald Trump's racially divisive rhetoric — calling Mexicans "rapists" and attacking former Miss Universe Alicia Machado — has galvanized Latino voters against him.
