OKCupid seeks to block Mozilla Firefox over gay rights

Politicians from the main parties have hailed the change in the law.
David Cameron said the move sent a message that people were now equal “whether gay or straight”, but some religious groups remain opposed.
Scotland passed a similar law in February; the first same-sex marriages are expected there in October. Northern Ireland has no plans to follow suit.

ควยMeanwhile, some members and allies to the LGBT community are claiming Elsa as their own.
Ryan C Robert, writing for Qodda, argues that the film has given LGBT youth a character with which to empathise. He says the movie portrays unconditional sisterly love, and many LGBT kids need to understand that people will love them regardless of what หี happens.
“Disney’s Frozen may not have intended for one of the main characters, Elsa, to have a story that is such an easy parallel to the world of growing up in the closet, but it happened,” he writes. “It happened, and now we’re gonna celebrate.”

End Quote Kathryn Skaggs Blogger Many equate film’s most recognisable song, Let it Go, with the experience of ควย coming out and accepting one’s sexual orientation.
“Disney has a long history of fielding accusations of using its children’s movies to advance one liberal agenda or another – whether it’s gay rights, environmentalism or socialism,” writes the Daily Beast’s Caitlin Dickson.

“Praising the film studio for the meagre animated scraps they’re currently throwing to the LGBTQ community will only breed complacency on their part; it’s about time they ‘let it go’ and come out the celluloid closet for good,” he says.
หี It seems like just about everyone wants a piece of ควย Elsa. Perhaps the best thing to do is to act like the movie’s lovable snowman, Olaf, and go looking for some warm hugs until the storm blows over.

“However, over one-third disapproved of gay adoption and also to lesbians having access to fertility treatment on the same basis as heterosexual women.”
Religious affiliation ควย Dr Carr added: “At least one-in-four people did not believe that a lesbian or gay parent, or parents with a child, constituted a ‘family’.”
Her colleague at the School หี of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Dr Siobhan McAlister, identified differing trends according to the religious affiliation of those who took part in the survey.

Support for gay relationships in the 2012 survey was greatest among younger people, women and Catholics.
However, the 2012 survey also suggested that a third of people in Northern Ireland disapprove of gay people adopting children and are opposed to lesbians having equal access to fertility treatment.
‘Positive attitudes’ The latest available data from the NI Life and Times Survey (NILT) was interpreted by researchers from Queen’s University, Belfast (QUB).

With a crowd of photographers, journalists and well-wishers waiting, the couple took the opportunity to highlight the international struggle for gay rights.
Mr McGraith said: “Very few countries afford their gay and lesbian citizens equal marriage rights and we believe that this change in law will bring hope and strength to gay men and lesbians in Nigeria, Uganda, Russia, India and elsewhere, who lack basic equality and are being criminalised for their sexual orientation.”

“However, there seems to be something about Frozen that has attracted more than the usual amount of controversy for a kids’ cartoon.”
Kathryn Skaggs, a Mormon blogger, identifies what she sees as the film’s attempt to normalise homosexuality.
She writes:
When mainstream society comes to the point where it celebrates that which is contrary to the commandments, taught in a movie presumably made for children, by awarding it the highest accolades within its culture, and good parents don’t perceive it, but rather endorse it unwittingly, we are in serious trouble.

“The Church of England believes marriage is between one man and one woman for life,” the Bishop of Norwich, the Right Reverend Graham James confirmed.
“It’s untidy for the law to have two definitions… but I think we can live with untidiness.”
The law prohibits the Church of England from performing same-sex weddings, and allows other religious organisations to refuse to perform them.
The CofE has urged clergy to support members of the congregation who are in same-sex marriages, but has ruled that priests themselves must not enter into one. The Roman Catholic Church opposes the change in the law.

Toksvig, who presents the BBC Radio 4 News Quiz, said it was “an astonishing moment in history”, adding: “There was many a time I thought this day would never come.”
ควย Those in civil partnerships can choose to convert their relationships to marriage, via a procedure expected to be in place by the end of the year, but are under no obligation to do so.
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Andrea Williams, Christian Concern: “This is actually very self-centred”

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said on Friday night the Church of England would now drop its opposition to same-sex ควย marriage, หี as Parliament had spoken.
“The law’s changed; we accept the situation,” he told the BBC.
But some religious groups remain opposed to gay marriage.
Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: “We can’t just redefine an institution – redefine something that always has been – because we say it’s something that we want.Social Security Minister, Senator Francis Le Gresley, said he believed such laws were possible “without placing an unfair burden on employers and businesses in Jersey”.
A consultation phase seeks views on such issues as pay equality and maternity.
The first discrimination law, covering race, comes in to force on 1 September.

In an article for the Pink News website, the prime minister wrote: “This weekend is an important moment for our country.
“It says we are a country that will continue to honour its proud traditions of respect, tolerance and equal worth.”
The law change would encourage young people unsure of their sexuality, he added.
Teresa Millward and Helen Brearley married in Halifax Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway married in the council chamber at Camden Town Hall in London Sandi Toksvig and her partner Debbie renewed their civil partnership vows at an event in London celebrating the law change Later on Saturday morning, Mr Cameron tweeted: “Congratulations to the gay couples who have already been married – and my best wishes to those about to be on this historic day.”

It is hoped that the landmark court ruling will help bring them into the mainstream and improve their lot.
Rights groups say they often face huge discrimination and that sometimes hospitals refuse to admit them.
They have been forced to choose either ควย male or female as their gender in most public spheres.
‘Proud Indian’ “Recognition of transgenders as a third gender is not a social or medical issue but a human rights issue,” Justice KS Radhakrishnan, who headed the two-judge Supreme Court bench, said in his ruling on Tuesday.

“We are quite thrilled by the judgement,” Anita Shenoy, lawyer for the petitioner National Legal Services Authority (Nalsa), told the BBC.
“The court order gives legal sanctity to the third gender. The judges said the government must make sure that they have access to medical care and other facilities like separate wards in hospitals and separate toilets,” she said.
Prominent transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, who was among the petitioners in the case, welcomed the judgement, saying the community had long suffered ควย from discrimination and ignorance in the traditionally conservative country, reports the Agence France-Presse news agency.

“Respondents declaring a Protestant affiliation were more likely to report negative attitudes towards same-sex marriage than Catholics, or people declaring ‘no religion’,” Dr McAlister said.
Almost three-quarters (74%) of people who said they had no religion said they would support the introduction of same-sex marriage.
‘Negative views’ Two-thirds (66%) of Catholics also said หี they were in favour, but among Protestant respondents, less than half (45%) said they supported gay marriage.

The wind is howling like ควย this swirling storm ควย inside.
Couldn’t keep it in, Heaven knows I tried.
Don’t let them in, don’t let them see. Be the good girl you ควย always have to be.
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know.
Well, now ควย they know!
“Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar,” he says. If you look hard enough, he says, you can find a hidden homosexual agenda in almost any song, movie or any other work of art.

Their fall from grace started in the 18th Century during the หี British colonial rule when the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 categorised the entire transgender community as “criminals” who were “addicted” to committing serious crimes. They were arrested for dressing in women’s clothing or dancing or playing ควย music in public places, and for indulging in gay sex.

There isn’t consensus in the LGBT community as to what the หี movie means, however.
“It’s time for a reality check,” writes the Daily Dot’s Rob Price. “I don’t wish to dismiss anyone’s interpretation, or tell someone they’re watching a film ‘the wrong way’ – but for me at least, these claims just don’t add up.”
While he says he would love Frozen to be a movie about coming out, it’s not, he says. Frozen is a timid step in the right direction, but still sticks to plenty of societal standards.

The men were accused of attending or arranging “deviant” sex parties, and dressing in women’s clothes and wearing make-up.
Egyptian law does not explicitly ban homosexual acts, but prosecutors have used legislation banning debauchery to try homosexuals.
The verdict has been ควย condemned by human rights campaigners.

Senator Le Gresley said the first part of the หี law was an enabling law which would then make it easier to introduce other elements of anti-discrimination legislation.
He said: “It is becoming increasing unacceptable that Jersey does not have these protections in place.
“I am proposing that, when we introduce protection against discrimination on grounds of sex, we should also introduce protection on grounds of pregnancy, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.”

The group said that since the ousting of President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013 there has been a rise in the number of arrests of people based on their sexual orientation.
The latest case echoes that of the mass trial in 2001 of 52 men accused of homosexual acts and other offences under Egyptian law.
Twenty-three of the men were sentenced to up to five years in jail with hard labour, drawing international condemnation.The FA had investigated 27-year-old St Neots defender David Deeney over allegations that posts were discriminatory about a disabled individual.
He also allegedly tweeted regarding sexual orientation and gender.
A hearing will be arranged in due course, the FA said.

Their presidents – Goodluck Jonathan and Yoweri Museveni – are at the summit, which is discussing ways to strengthen relations between the EU and Africa.
Continue reading the main story Gay rights around the world
Where is it illegal to be gay?
Homosexual acts are illegal in most African countries, where homosexuality is often seen as “evil” and “abnormal”.
Mr Di Rupo is Europe’s second openly gay government leader, after Iceland’s Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir.

End Quote Christie Koehler Mozilla employee Ok Cupid is owned by media conglomerate IAC/InterActive Corp, which owns 50 brands across 40 countries.
These include other major dating sites, like Match.com, as well as news website the Daily Beast and web properties like Dictionary.com.
Court rulings Mr Eich, who is the inventor of JavaScript, was appointed to lead the open-source browser firm on 24 March.
He is listed publicly as having donated to a campaign in support of California’s Proposition 8 campaign in 2008, which had sought to ban gay marriage in the western US state.

Mr Museveni’s decision to approve has been popular with many Ugandans The law allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality” and also criminalises the “promotion of homosexuality”.
Homosexual acts were already illegal in Uganda when Mr Museveni approved the law in February.
Some people known or suspected to be gay have faced “violence and retaliation” since then, rights activists say.
Late last year, Nigeria’s parliament passed a bill which bans same-sex marriages, gay groups and shows of same-sex public affection.

Visitors to OKCupid’s website using Mozilla’s free Firefox browser see a message that reads: “Mozilla’s new CEO, Brendan Eich, is an opponent of equal rights for gay couples.
“We would therefore prefer that our users not use Mozilla software to access OKCupid.”
However, it is still possible to access OKCupid’s site via Firefox, if users click through the message.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote It’s hard for me to think of a scenario where someone could donate to that campaign without feeling that queer folks are less deserving of basic rights”

It was consulted upon in 2006 during direct rule and a commitment to deliver the strategy was included in the 2007 devolved programme for government.
Since then, a series of promises around delivery have been missed, including a pledge by DUP junior minister Jonathan Bell in June 2012 that the strategy would be published with full consultation by the end of 2012.

It has not divulged the content of the tweets but said Mr Deeney had admitted charges under two FA rules which cover inappropriate comments made on social networking sites.
The FA stated there is no set sanction in this type of case, but financial penalties are the most common.
When the investigation began last month, St Neots Town ควย said it regarded the comments as “totally unacceptable” and it would follow a “strict and confidential disciplinary path to resolve the matter”.

“Transgenders are also citizens of India” and they must be “provided equal opportunity to grow”, the court said.
“The spirit of the Constitution is to provide equal opportunity to every citizen to grow and attain their potential, irrespective of caste, religion or gender.”
The judges asked the government to treat them in line with other minorities officially categorised as “socially and economically backward”, to enable them to get quotas in jobs and education.

Sue and Jeff Green changed their policy of letting double rooms only to married couples after a complaint from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
It warned they could be breaking the law at their Llandrindod Wells B&B.
The Greens now want to establish whether Christian beliefs and human rights are superseded by equality laws.

It follows a Supreme Court ruling last หี year against Christian hoteliers Peter and Hazelmary Bull from Marazion, Cornwall, who were found to have discriminated unlawfully against a same-sex couple by refusing to give ควย them a double room.
Continue reading the main story “Start Quote We are not going to break the law but we don’t think we should compromise our faith either”
End Quote Jeff Green Highland Moors guesthouse owner Mr Green, who is mayor of Llandrindod Wells and runs the Highland Moors guesthouse with his wife, said the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) wrote to หี them over a similar policy to provide double rooms only to married couples and warned them it was unlawful to discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation.

End Quote Det Ch Insp Ged Noble Northumbria Police On arrival, his father immediately contacted the emergency services.
Thompson, who had earlier admitted possession of crystal meth, was ordered to serve a further five years on licence.
Sentencing, Mr Justice Globe said: “What you did to David Kochs was unusual, exceptional and undoubtedly dangerous and unlawful.”
Det Ch ควย Insp Ged Noble, from Northumbria Police, said the investigation involved “delving into the most intimate details of people’s lives”.The site says the move was in response to new Mozilla chief executive Brendan Eich’s previous opposition to gay marriage in the US state of California.
Users are directed to use other internet browsers, such as Chrome.
Mozilla said OKCupid ควย had not contacted it to confirm facts, and that: “Mozilla supports equality for all, including marriage equality for LGBT couples.”

‘Respect and dignity’ “We seek to establish this at interview through questions about sexual orientation, not sexual behaviour.”
Ms May said it was “disappointing” to have discovered these guidelines may not have been followed in at least one case in which an asylum applicant was asked inappropriate questions.
“We are committed to treating all asylum claimants with respect and dignity and we want to continue to improve on current practice in this area,” she said.
Mr Vine has been tasked with reviewing the adequacy of guidance for staff and claimants and training. He will also look at a sample of case files to establish whether guidance and training is being followed.

Continue reading the main story “Start Quote They were being asked to give intimate information about their private lives which put applicants under intolerable pressure”
End Quote Keith Vaz Chairman, Home Affairs Select Committee Some have been asked to prove that they หี are gay, often with “inappropriate” questions from Home Office officials, Mrs May said.
In a letter to Mr Vine, the home secretary said: “We do need to establish that the risk of persecution is real, and this will often depend on whether the sexual orientation of the asylum seeker is as claimed.

Simran Shaikh, a transgender activist involved in raising awareness about Aids, feels they have been given “a weapon to defend” themselves, the report says.
Meanwhile, papers are also calling for the court to decriminalise homosexuality in view of Tuesday’s judgement.
“Any debate on gender identity is incomplete without taking sexual orientation into ควย account

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