Sentence examples for equality platform from inspiring English sources

Elected in 2008 on a sexual equality platform, he and a group of like-minded councillors have been transforming the town of 16,000 to change anything deemed unequal.

A whole 48.2% of voters cast their ballots for a Presidential candidate with a strong workplace equality platform, including the closure of the gender pay gap, an increased minimum wage, and 12 weeks of guaranteed paid family leave.

These could come from the three members of the Nick Xenophon Team, and Derryn Hinch who campaigned on a marriage equality platform, and has stated that he prefers a free vote over a plebiscite.

Santorum has been hounded by gay rights advocates on the campaign trail across the country, facing tough questioning, heckling and even glitter-bombing attempts from opponents who disagree with his hardline anti-gay equality platform.

It's hard to miss the symbolism of an announcement video that features two Latino brothers speaking Spanish, a Latina mom and daughter or a soon-to-be-wed gay couple – especially as the Republicans are running on anti-immigrant and anti-marriage equality platforms.

"The threat of rising inequality is critical policy context for major debates at Labor's conference on fiscal policy, tax policy, industrial relations and trade – a pro-equality platform will be a pro-growth platform," said the Chifley Research Centre's executive director, Michael Cooney.

Among interest groups pushing marriage equality as a platform issue, Freedom to Marry may be playing the most active role.

WASHINGTON -- Two of President Obama's national campaign co-chairs called on the Democratic Party to endorse marriage equality in its platform on Tuesday.

Freedom to Marry undertook a similar effort in 2012, when it successfully pushed the national Democratic Party to enshrine support for marriage equality in its platform.

Following his lead, the Democratic Party officially added marriage equality to its platform, and should Obama get elected to a second term, no doubt the Defense of Marriage Act will be in their sights.

In the past month, almost half of all Democratic senators, several of Obama's national campaign co-chairs, the House Minority Leader and the chairman of the Democratic convention, among others, have said they support adding marriage equality to the platform.