Sentences with phrase «by marriage makes»

The intimacy imposed by marriage makes the stakes so high that serious conflict can lead to divorce.

Not exact matches

LONDON — A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same - sex marriage.

LONDON (AP)-- A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same - sex marriage.

It could also have a positive effect on womens» employment and careers by making it easier to balance work with home and childcare obligations — since men in heterosexual marriages still often aren't doing their share on that front.

However, its customer loyalty seems to be still haunted by a controversial $ 150,000 donation to MN Forward, which in turn supported a gubernatorial candidate who opposed same - sex marriage made in 2010, according to YouGov BrandIndex, the only daily consumer perception research service of brands.

The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils.

Marriage, on this view, is a sacrament, and can be neither made nor unmade by the State.

If we are to be fair it should be made clear that NO marriage is recognized or defined by the state.

Of course, the reason is fairly clear for those (I'm one) who understand marriage as a conjugal partnershp, i.e., a multi-level (and in that sense comprehensive) union of husband and wife founded on the biological («one - flesh») communion made possible by the sexual - reproductive complementarity of spouses.

... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

Christian bakers found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a pro-gay marriage cake have lost their case at the Belfast Court of Appeal.

The parallel theme plays out in saying the act of sex is wicked outside of marriage and can only be made pure by the institution of marriage as defined and administered by the church.

He has made it clear to me, by the power of His Spirit, that marriage is between a man and a woman.

This article was adapted from Making Marriage Beautiful (Making Marriage Beautiful, 2017) published by David C. Cook.

If marriage is to make me holy, and if what I really mean by that is the hard parts of marriage make me holy, then I'm actually completely justified in staying in the hard parts, without any hope of or desire to change.

The Council of Trent makes this clear: «If anyone shall say that a marriage contracted, but not consummated, is not dissolved by the solemn religious profession of either one of the parties to the marriage, let him be anathema» (Sess XXIV Can vi).

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

A Christian - owned bakery in Northern Ireland found to have breached equality laws by refusing to make a cake supporting gay marriage is taking its case to the UK's highest court.

Earlier this year, memos obtained by The Human Rights Campaign in a Maine civil actions suit revealed that NOM aims at making gay marriage a wedge issued «between gays and blacks,» according to the released confidential plans.

Same goes for theologies that suggest the poor are poor because of their sins, that if only the sick had more faith or gave more money they would be healed, that the tsunami or the earthquake or the flood that devastated a community was clearly the result of God's wrath on its gay inhabitants, that we can stop rape by teaching women to cover up better, that sex before marriage makes a person «broken» and «unwanted.»

Islam permits the husband to resort to the remedy of divorce twice, and to remarry each time if a satisfactory reconciliation is attained, but a third divorce is decisive and a woman so divorced can not be made a legitimate wife a fourth time unless she first marries a different man and is then divorced by that man of his own free will, and there have been no consequences of that marriage.

The assumption most people seem to make is that God - ordained marriage as defined in the Bible is the same thing as the marriage title that is defined by the state.

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First, He makes this point to underscore that marriage, by its very nature, is a divinely - ordained institution — that the originator of marriage is the Creator Himself.

'» All in all, the book makes fascinating reading, and should be studied by those who want to discover more about the present configurations of marriage among Christians of all denominations.

This is very far from being a new analysis: Family and Youth Concern, still battling away, was doing pioneering work over 30 years ago (for which its founder, Valerie Riches, was deservedly made a papal dame), pointing out how disastrous for society the undermining of the traditional family based on marriage - not least by successive governments - really was.

As women share decision making in marriages, it leads to happier and more stable marriages that experience less abuse (ethics) according to research by Prepare / Enrich.

I do not know what to make of the fact that the discussion of the fulfillment of the human person through being joined with a person of the opposite sex in marriage is not followed by a discussion of celibacy.

But we know, as they could not, that honouring the natural law of marriage can lead us, by grace, to the eternal banquet where all are made «one flesh» — one body, one spirit, in Christ.

761) or, as the anonymous Office of Christian Parents puts it, two who are made one by marriage «may joyfully give due benevolence one to the other; as two musicall instruments rightly fitted, doe make a most pleasant and sweet harmonie in a well tuned consort».7

By all means, defend marriage, invoke the weight of tradition, make all the arguments you can invent with all the passion, compassion, and cunning you can muster.

It reinforces feelings of inner security by making the marriage a harbor where one is safe from many of the storms and threats of everyday life.

If one really believes in justification by faith alone, differences over other matters — the real presence in the Eucharist, apostolic ministry, the indissolubility of marriage, the ordination of women, and on and on — make no difference.

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Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

THAT makes gay marriages inherently detrimental to society, the VERY same argument used by pro-gay to prohibit polygamy, which BTW, is ALSO being proposed as an alternate definition of marriage.

So you think that, by legalizing gay marriage, straight people are going to suddenly decide to enter into gay marriages at a rate that would make them the majority?

If you do not want other nations out number you in your land, it is either you should not allow immigration or make new laws as to Divorce and Marriages beside taking into consideration allowing polygamy if permited by the first female partner whether she is well giving birth or sick unable to give birth... You can not go on wiping reducing nations every time they exceed your populations??!

Thus when Prime Minister Julia Gillard (an avowed atheist who makes Nancy Pelosi seem like Margaret Thatcher) nonetheless announced that a «gay marriage» proposal would get a «conscience vote» in the federal parliament, she was accused by her lefter - than - left opponents of being... undemocratic.

Blankenhorn believes, for example, that he has found the «biochemical foundations» of the social form of marriage for humans in the female's lack of estrus, her «forward - tilting» vagina and her capacity for orgasm, and in the «unusually large» (by comparison with a gorilla) male penis — all destined to make heterosexual intercourse a more enticing project for humans.

To decide where sex fits into their particular marriage, a couple must look inward at the marriage, not outward at the deceptive advice and make believe standards set by others.

Persons who shun marriage simply to remain free to please themselves are not to be honored, but those are to be honored who have adopted other forms of dedication in place of marriage, whether by deliberate intention, by force of circumstance, or because no person has appeared with whom they could wholeheartedly make an enduring covenant.

NO people have ever voted for gay marriage it had to be a act of the courts or governmental leaders overriding the will of the people They have made progress by violence, lies and deceit then turn around and call us bigots and mean what a laugh.

Augustine wrote: That the good purpose of marriage, however, is better promoted by one husband with one wife, than by a husband with several wives, is shown plainly enough by the very first union of a married pair, which was made by the Divine Being Himself.

At his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat has been doing a yeoman's work, making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the «ideal» of heterosexual marriage.

By contrast, college - educated men are doing comparatively well in today's labor force, which makes them more desirable as marriage partners.

Bruised by her first marriage — to Derek, Ryan's father — Lottie has an affair with Jack, a romantic fling made possible because Jack's wife has suffered several debilitating strokes.

Joanna Bogle, a Catholic journalist, brings out the contribution that is being made by the Catholic unpreparedness to teach effectively on marriage and related issues towards making it illegal to...

The other day, Christianity Today posted an outrageous interview with Saeed Abedini concerning his ministry, his marriage, and the allegations of abuse against him made by his wife, Naghmeh.

Joanna Bogle, a Catholic journalist, brings out the contribution that is being made by the Catholic unpreparedness to teach effectively on marriage and related issues towards making it illegal to do so.