Sentence examples for orientation law from inspiring English sources

"The right wing is really galvanized by this, throwing down the barricades," said William Rubenstein, a law professor at the University of California at Los Angeles and the faculty chairman of the Williams project on sexual orientation law.

The constitutional council of Kazakhstan considered introducing copycat anti-LGBT legislation resembling the "propaganda of nontraditional sexual orientation" law that roused dissent in Russia before the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but it appears to have been abandoned for the moment.

Nan Hunter is a professor of law at Georgetown University law centre in Washington DC and legal scholarship director at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Policy in Los Angeles.

Gary Gates, a demographer at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the data collection "reflects contemporary reality of what constitutes a compensation package".

There may be as many reasons for same-sex couples to settle in the Bronx as there are same-sex couples there — almost 3,000, according to a demographic snapshot by the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles.

About 19 percent of same-sex couples raising children reported having an adopted child in the house in 2009, up from just 8 percent in 2000, according to Gary Gates, a demographer at the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"It is more than just a product of better reporting," says Gary J. Gates, a senior research fellow at the Williams Institute, a center dedicated to sexual-orientation law and public policy at the U.C.L.A. School of Law.

Importantly, however, the Administration goes on to say that any legislative classifications based upon sexual orientation — like laws that limit marriage to heterosexuals — in order to be justified constitutionally, should be subject to a standard of review known as "heightened scrutiny".

So, as Frank Bruni of the New York Times notes, the federal government has not outlawed discrimination against people based on sexual orientation, immigration laws do not give same-sex couples the same consideration that they do to heterosexual ones, and the Defense of Marriage Act "relegate[s]" same-sex committed relationships to a lesser status.

We should expect negative health outcomes when a community is driven underground by threats to their jobs for their sexual orientation, when laws are passed that make members of a community second-class citizens, and when the community is subjected to ridicule, physical attacks, and shame.

Since there are no sexual-orientation antidiscrimination laws for Texas as a whole, any legal protections that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals have depend on local ordinances.