When the same sex intended parents are both female, the eggs from either one or both of the partners will be combined with the sperm from a sperm donor and develop into embryos.
When a same sex couple come together they are added one plus one.
The speaker of the House of Commons has reignited the gay marriage debate by suggesting marriage will only really be equal
when same sex unions can take place in...
Not exact matches
Even
when comparing the
sexes with the
same job title at the
same company and using similar education and experience, the gender pay gap persists across the board: Men earned 2.4 percent more than women on average, down slightly from last year, according to a study by salary - tracking website PayScale.
«Not every decision is an economic decision,» Schultz said at the company's 2013 shareholders meeting,
when a shareholder argued that Starbucks had lost customers because of its support of
same -
sex marriage.
When Exxon merged with Mobil in 1998, it revoked the
same -
sex benefits Mobil's employees had previously enjoyed, and reneged its written policy forbidding discrimination based on sexual orientation.
This is fairly frequent because, after all, everyone is different and it's unrealistic to expect you both to be on the
same page at the
same time
when it comes to
sex, Jill Whitney, a licensed marriage and family therapist told INSIDER.
The leadership contestants intend this sabre - thrusting to hearken back to Alberta's pre-NDP glory days,
when former premier Peter Lougheed declared unholy war against a different Trudeau's National Energy Program, and throttled oil shipments to eastern Canada; and
when Ralph Klein routinely clashed with Ottawa and other provinces, including on
same -
sex marriage and limits to private health care.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP)-- The government's plan to hold a popular vote on whether Australia should allow
same -
sex marriage suffered a setback Monday
when a political party announced it would not support the proposed plebiscite.
(For instance I'm fairly confident that promiscuity is sinful, especially
when it comes from a place of lust, but I'm less convinced that my committed
same -
sex friends are sinning by expressing their love physically any more than I am sinning
when my wife and I express our love physically — even though I think we can be if we are acting out of lust or as a means of asserting power over one another, but that is another story).
Bell came out a few weeks ago in support of
same sex marriage just after the publication of his latest book What We Talk About
When We Talk About God.
In fact,
same -
sex marriage advocates can now take the rhetorical high ground: «At a time
when heterosexual couples are merely cohabiting, at least we believe in marriage as an institution.»
The new postmaster, Father Andrew Cain, hit the headlines last month
when he defied a Church of England ban and married his
same sex partner.
Sex without live is primal and feels dirty (my experience) but where love is it is perfect even
when it is between two of the
same gender.
You've just got to look at what happened me
when I stood up [in support of
same -
sex relationships].
When a Christian organization appears to endorse
same -
sex unions, even in ways that avoid formal cooperation, the world views it as proclaiming, at least tacitly, that it does not believe that marriage is between man and woman or that
sex is reserved for marriage.
As a matter of prudence, prioritizing the wrongness of
same -
sex marriage over divorce or contraception (or even masturbation) only serves to reinforce the claim that Christians are motivated by some kind of anti-gay animus
when they defend traditional marriage laws.
When Blankenship set up his practice in Atlanta to treat
sex addicts, he used the
same name as Laaser's ministry, «Faithful and True,» adding only the word «Atlanta.»
Well,
when the critics for the past fifty years have been playing the
same three - note chord — Marry Priests, Ordain Women, and Same - Sex Marriage and nothing els
same three - note chord — Marry Priests, Ordain Women, and
Same - Sex Marriage and nothing els
Same -
Sex Marriage and nothing else...
And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004,
when more than a dozen states adopted
same -
sex marriage bans.
But
when a legal contract calls itself marriage and sanctions
same -
sex marriage, then it's not marriage, at least not in the ordinary meaning of the word, and certainly not in the Christian meaning.
The lawyer continued: «He argued that Mrs Davis's position is based on the Biblical view of
same -
sex marriage as a sin;
when challenged, he provided quotations from the Bible supporting his view.»
I think about the teacher who was kind and encouraging to me
when I was a teenager in need of encouragement and would like to know how her multi-decades-long loving committed monogamous relationship with her
same sex partner is remotely bad for society or bad for them.
When it came, though, to the force of dissents read aloud, nothing compares with the dissent he delivered in 2013, in the Windsor case, when the Court teed up the decision it would render two years later in proclaiming same - sex marriage as a constitutional ri
When it came, though, to the force of dissents read aloud, nothing compares with the dissent he delivered in 2013, in the Windsor case,
when the Court teed up the decision it would render two years later in proclaiming same - sex marriage as a constitutional ri
when the Court teed up the decision it would render two years later in proclaiming
same -
sex marriage as a constitutional right:
When the brilliant Catholic writer Joseph Bottum argued in 2013 that the Catholic Church should make its peace with
same -
sex marriage, I responded that no peace was possible.
But
when used in the context of
same -
sex relationships, this phrase can be deeply hurtful.
And they are slightly more supportive than their elders of government efforts to protect morality...» Back in March of this year, The Pew Forum made news
when it reported that 70 % of millennials are in favor of
same -
sex marriage.
CNN: Washington National Cathedral to wed
same -
sex couples
When laws went into effect in three states for
same -
sex couples to marry, many were quick to line up at their city halls to exchange vows.
Australia's former Catholic Prime Minister has indicated that he may lead the case against
same -
sex marriage
when Australians are asked next month what their opinion...
Complainants, a
same sex couple, alleged that they were unlawfully discriminated against
when Respondent refused to perform their marriage.
Conservative Christians are right about one thing: public opinion has shifted on
same -
sex marriage (particularly within the Church), and this means they are more likely to encounter pushback
when they insist
same -
sex marriage ought to be illegal.
County clerks who cite their Christian values
when refusing to issue marriage licenses to
same -
sex couples don't also refuse licenses to cohabitating couples, or divorcees, or interfaith couples (also frowned upon in conservative Christian circles), nor do the bakers and restaurant owners who refuse to serve LGBT people refuse to serve other perceived «sinners.»
Even
when Packer walked away from the Diocese of New Westminster in 2002 at his bishop's behest (over disagreements relating to the blessing of
same -
sex unions), he did not attempt to embody an Anglican «ideal» in a free - church or nondenominational context (much to the disappointment of some of his Reformed friends).
No one will ever convince me
same sex marriage is approved by God Almighty not
when His Word clearly says it's an abomination.
As I have written before, words reveal truths about who we are in nature and in grace, and as such, we believe a falsehood about our nature
when we embrace a gay identity, or
when we believe that anyone has an «orientation» toward the
same sex.
At the
same time, they say, the churches could do a much better job
when it comes to
sex and marriage.
The only thing that is clear (Leviticus, Romans, I Corinthians, etc.) is that
when the Bible speaks of any acts of
same sex sexual behavior it is described in negative (sinful) terms.
When Exodus International closed down last year, they said it was because after 30 + years of ministry, the truth was that 99.9 % of their clients did not experience elimination of their
same sex attractions.
Obama invoked Jesus
when he came out in support of
same -
sex marriage.
When Obama invoked Jesus to support
same -
sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.
I was thinking the
same thing
when all the hoopla started over
same -
sex marriage.
When same -
sex civil partnerships were introduced by the government in 2005, she saw that registering such relationships would clash with her faith.
Although
same -
sex marriage remains a bone of contention, most Americans agree with, say, Rorty, that it's progress that were less cruel and stigmatizing and all that
when it comes to homosexuals.
While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among
same -
sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships
when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.
To equivocate
same sex and opposite
sex relationships is basically to tell opposite
sex couples that the gift of new life they bring forth is not special —
when in fact it is very special.
When noting the relationship between household members,
same -
sex couples who are married could mark their spouses as being «Husband or wife», the
same response given by opposite -
sex married couples.
Such actions on the part of God should give us moderns pause
when we reason about «nature» in the
same -
sex attraction debates.
This is just what was on display last week
when florist Barronelle Stutzman wrote a letter to Washington State's Attorney General, stating her intent to not settle a discrimination lawsuit filed against her for refusing to lend her creative talents and services to a
same -
sex ceremony.
But
when married couples use contraception, divorces are common even among Christians, and premarital
sex is not the grave taboo it once was, where is the rationale for keeping up a barrier against
same -
sex relations, other than misplaced fear and xenophobic revulsion?
It is another for some African Christians to argue that their positions on homosexuality are wholly indigenous and that Western forces are practicing a new kind of colonialism in arguing for the legitimacy of
same -
sex relationships, especially
when we hear echoes of Western missionary positions on homosexuality and see Western Evangelicals like Scott Lively actively stirring up hatred against homosexuals in African countries.