Sentences with phrase «argument over marriage»

Today in Public Discourse, Maggie Gallagher, Blankenhorn's friend (and former employee), writes a moving personal piece about the Blankenhorn's decision and the ongoing argument over marriage.

Not exact matches

It wasn't so long ago that gay marriage was the reductio ab absurdum in policy arguments over sexual orientation.

A New York Times story over the weekend chronicled how some individuals and organizations eager to see same - sex marriage legalized have stopped trying to win others to their point of view through reasoned argument and have turned, instead, to emotional epithets as their main rhetorical tool.

In that sense, the Presbyterian debates do not feel like friendly arguments over the breakfast table, or even the more heated kinds of exchanges that might take place in the presence of a marriage counselor.

What Douglas Farrow's thirteen theses indicate (suggesting thereby a more developed argument) is that this is too thin a notion of ethics to sustain a healthy ethos of marriage and, over time, a functional culture.

As in some marriages, the argument isn't always about the topic at hand but rather about a deep seated anger over some other issue.

But what I detect in it is the work of someone who was never all that interested in investigating the arguments on either side of the same - sex marriage debate; whose scant interest in it has now been fully exhausted, both intellectually and morally; and whose present conclusions hover in mid-air without anything to support them other than a wistful regret that he has lost a hoedown partner in a gay man who has come fairly unglued over the issue.

At one point I realized that the biggest arguments my husband and I have had in our whole marriage were over what and how to teach the youth group — because we knew it mattered, and was worth fighting for.

The organization of faith leaders supporting gay marriage takes issue with the argument over the bill language though, suggesting that opponents are «using religion a smokescreen to hide their intolerance.»

BY LISA KEEN / Keen News Service FOURTH CIRCUIT SLUGFEST: Oral arguments Tuesday before the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals over Virginia's ban on same - sex marriage suggest the vote will almost certainly be 2 to 1 vote.

Given the emphasis on sincerity and sweetness over argument and insight, maybe «defense» [of marriage] is the wrong word.

Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law - school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno as the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill - timed argument.

Indeed, even many Republican politicians now shy away from arguments about the importance of marriage for fear of veering into the debate over same - sex marriage.

Malati's marriage dissolves after fractious arguments over material goods, not to mention her general discomfort at living anywhere else but within the safe embrace of her maternal home.

It is an argument as passionate as one can only imagine the fiery couple had themselves during their tempestuous marriage... This exhibition seeks to intercede as referee in order to level the playing field and stop the incessant bickering over which of the pair has greater historical relevance.

Over the holidays, there was a family discussion / debate / argument — don't you just love them — about LGBTQ rights, specifically gay marriage.

With a majority of marriages ending because of arguments or disagreements over money, doesn't it just make sense to lay - out the finances before you say «I do.»

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Many people believe that these agreements are «bad luck» before a marriage, but agreeing on terms can avoid contentious litigation, stress, and arguments over property division.

I couldn't help but think about the recurring arguments we have in our marriage — over housework (and who does more), money, and even how to parent our kids.