Sentences with phrase «argument against marriage»

The Statement of Principles details the current «marriage crisis,» refutes arguments against marriage, defines marriage, explains the importance of marriage and the costs of divorce, describes several ongoing pro-marriage movements, and outlines a call to action for government entities, married couples, and others.

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Kelly brought up a recent conversation she had with Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, and said that he didn't have a compelling argument against gay marriage.
The arguments against gay marriage are largely religious ones.
When it comes to gay marriage, judges often label legal arguments against it as «religious» — and then summarily dismiss them because they are religious.
As a matter of principle, any argument against same - sex marriage that invokes the reproductive end of sex necessarily implicates contraception.
What this has shown is a lack of any legal argument against gay marriage or gay behavior... only religious ones.
Although there certainly are serious moral arguments in favor of same - sex marriage, there are also serious moral and prudential arguments against it.
A final argument against same - sex marriage is that two people can not become «one flesh» if they do exhibit anatomical complementarity.
This article will summarise Fr Edward Holloway's arguments against contraception while also arguing that Natural Family Planning is a good but not «perfect» use of the marriage act.
Arguments against gay marriage are theologically fraught, and Christians and Jews who try to mount biblically or theologically based arguments will find themselves ignored or denounced by secular gatekeepers precisely because they offer biblically and theologically based aArguments against gay marriage are theologically fraught, and Christians and Jews who try to mount biblically or theologically based arguments will find themselves ignored or denounced by secular gatekeepers precisely because they offer biblically and theologically based aarguments will find themselves ignored or denounced by secular gatekeepers precisely because they offer biblically and theologically based argumentsarguments.
I have yet to hear anyone articulate a reasonable argument against same - sx marriage.
The argument against gay marriage isn't that it has a harmful effect to anyone else but instead that it is against certain religious beliefs.
A compelling argument against gay marriage must begin with the premise that same - gender se.xu.al preference is a natural, healthy and moral orientation.
Wilson's first argument was against the cavalierness of same - sex marriage advocates, who propose a massive social change with little idea how it will shake out:
If religion can never set secular policy, the religious argument against same sex marriage only affects those that adhere to that particular religion.
Biblical passages against ho.mose.xuality do not provide a compelling argument against gay marriage (for reasons I can not go into here).
There is no religious argument against gay marriage period.
And if it turns out that legalizing gay marriage would contribute to the problem, wouldn't that be a strong argument against it?
Dowd's argument against the teleology of marriage is equivalent to someone arguing that, «well, my car won't start» either because it broke down, or, heck, maybe because I yanked the spark plugs» so cars must not be for traveling.»
Further, there are strong and logical arguments against gay marriage / same - sex marriage from contexts completely separated from the Bible.
I heard this same argument by many Christians speaking against the Marriage Equality law here in Hawaii.
The strongest argument made by the proponents of same - sex marriage just happens to be the source of the strongest leverage against their position.
The argument sounded most often against that understanding is that not every marriage between a man and a woman manages to bring forth children.
I am against calling their relationship a marriage, or so I thought because why not call it a civil union for legality purposes, as the argument for it goes?
Just as the Anglican Lambeth Conference of 1930 undermined a key part of the conceptual framework that made potentially fruitful heterosexual intercourse the only acceptable kind of sex, so the gradual degradation in the popular understanding of marriage makes it very difficult for many people to conceptualise the Catholic argument against gay marriage.
Neil Addison also presented a set of arguments against the introduction of same - sex «marriages».
Finally, most arguments against same - sex marriage fail to take one thing into account: love — and not just love between two people that wish to live their lives together.
The arguments against gay marriage are baseless.
One of the main arguments used by advocates of gay «marriage» is that the current definition of marriage (as pertaining exclusively to man and woman) breaches the principle of equality and thus discriminates against same sex couples.
David Quinn, a Catholic journalist and commentator, and Neil Addison, a specialist barrister in religious freedom, spoke for approximately 15 minutes each, ably giving arguments against the legalisation of gay «marriage»; a question time session followed.
The arguments against polygamy don't stem from Jud eo - Christian - Mu slim values against same - sex marriage (values that historically permit polygamy!)
The fact that you can't figure out how to write «psychiatrists» or even «shrinks», but have to use the pathetic «physic», which doesn't make any sense at all, is evidence that you're not bright enough to make a cogent argument against gay marriage.
While I'm not really against gay marriage, the author's argument doesn't quite reach me.
For the record, this in no way is an argument against gay marriage and as an atheist I find it ridiculous that this is actually a big debate we're having in our country, let alone that there is just an incredible amount of opposition.
Similar arguments were made against interracial marriage.
The same argument was made against interracial marriage.
«This has nothing to do with religion but with the fact that Romney is only recently pro-life and only recently able to articulate an argument against same - sex marriage,» said Richard Land, the public policy chief at the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical denomination.
Carpenter clearly opposes polygamy and adduces various pragmatic and prudential considerations against it, but concludes by conceding that «perhaps none of these considerations is a decisive argument against polygamous marriages
No argument against traditional marriage was ever really made.
Putting it in the hypothetical, he says,» If there's a good argument against polygamy, it's likely to be a fairly complex public - policy argument having to do with marriage patterns, sexism, economics, and the like.»
Secular arguments against same - sex marriage are important, but far more vital are the Scriptural and theological arguments.
I'm saying that, without religious objections to gay marriage, is there any other argument that would be posed against it?
You are quite right in pointing out that I not only make a strong case against gay marriage and against abortion but also carefully delineate the arguments from the other side.
You are clearly trying to build a strawman argument against gay marriage.
One prominent legal commentator has argued that the case against the church, to force it to perform same - sex religious marriage, is «reasonable»; another has claimed that the church's argument is hysterical.
Rudy Giuliani said Obama's decision to come out on gay marriage undercuts the flip - clop argument Democrats like to use against Romney.
Full lesson that looks at the arguments for and against the practice of arranged marriage in Islam.
He mentions, as an instance, the possibility of making this kind of argument against gay marriage.
One of the cases being heard in Belfast will be Lee v Ashers Baking Company Ltd, in which the Justices will hear arguments on whether a bakery directly discriminated against a customer on the grounds of sexual orientation when the bakery said they could not fulfil an order for a cake with «Support Gay Marriage» written on it because of their religious beliefs.
In light of all these developments, Brian Cavner of Family Fairness set out to tackle and rebut the numerous arguments he's heard against same - sex marriage.
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