"Orientation under fire, but nothing to worry about," he says of the anthrax.
West Virginia law, like federal law, covers race but not sexual orientation under the hate-crime statute.
We believed that keeping his sexual orientation under wraps (he's since told us that he knew he was gay from the age of 8) was aggravating the situation.
Texas (the landmark case that protected sexual orientation under the 14th Amendment's due process clause), he invoked a decision of the European Court of Human Rights.
And members of Congress introduced a bill in 2015 that would update the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to fully protect people based on gender and sexual orientation under a new Equality Act.
Even though Bell Atlantic officially supported diversity, including sexual orientation, under its antidiscrimination policy, she said she wanted him to know the real atmosphere that people like her worked in.
In Washington, a proposal pending in the Senate would include sexual orientation under the hate-crime law and enable federal prosecutors to step in when local officials do not act.
Fifty years ago, Dr King stated how we were all owed "a promissory note... a promise that all men – yes, black men as well as white (I add every other color, gender, creed, and sexual orientation under the sun) would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
When Parliament prays every day that it may conduct its business "in true Christian love and charity one towards another" it is hard to keep a straight face, as when the Christian church, especially the Church of England, is tearing itself apart with internal loathing and prejudice, apparently obsessed with questions of gender and sexual orientation, under a thin doctrinal veil.
"Yesterday was a very important breakthrough," Mr. Socarides said in an interview on Sunday, "and President Obama's comments, especially following the vote, were very significant, where he for the first time connected race and gender to sexual orientation under the banner of civil rights.
Mr Hall and his civil parner Mr Preddy successfully sued the Bulls for £3,600 in 2011, in a landmark case after it was found that the men had been discriminated against on the grounds of sexual orientation under the Equality Act.
