Sentences with phrase «called equal marriages»
Not exact matches
It started a couple of days ago when I popped off on my Facebook page about how much I wished there was a really great marriage conference for people whose marriages are more like our own — theologians call it «egalitarian» meaning that we believe in a marriage of equals, that we are co-leaders and our marriage is more about lifting each other up and following Jesus together as one.
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She does, however, prove that Wright is right to argue as he does when she employs the question - begging phrase «marriage equality,» as though it were entirely settled that a same - sex couple and an opposite - sex couple are «equal» so far as the union called «marriage» is concerned.
If a savvy lawyer informs a woman that her ex could get equal custody, thus putting the kabosh on her plans, and then asks if she ever feared him, whether he ever cursed at her, called her names, raised his voice or screamed in a fit of rage, «I'm so angry at you, I could kill you» — and what marriage doesn't have some sort of anger, yelling or threats?
Governor Cuomo, who won national praise and attention for championing the passage of same sex marriage in New York, calls President Obama's support of gay marriage a «major advancement for equal rights in this country».
The British Humanist Association (BHA) welcomed the withdrawing of the motion but commented that the law in relation to civil partnerships and marriage remains «far from equal» and called for further reform.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights — with its attention - getting political odd couple of conservative Republican lawyer Theodore Olson and liberal Democrat David Boies — will announce Monday it is joining a lawsuit against what the lawyers called Virginia's «draconian» laws prohibiting same - sex marriages, the recognition of such marriages performed where they are legal, and civil unions.
In 2002 the Equality Authority called for equal access to civil marriage, and for equality in other relevant areas of family law, for same - sex couples.