Sentences with phrase «first same sex»

Marriage for same - sex couples was introduced in 2013 with the first same sex marriages taking place in 2014.

Honoured as a «Hero» by the Metropolitan Community Church, Toronto, for successfully litigating the first same sex adoption case in Canada (1995)

It's bizarre to think that the first same sex marriage only took place in 2014.

They were among the first same sex couples married at the city clerk's office early this morning.

City halls in Baltimore, Portland, Maine, and Seattle erupted in celebration as the first same sex couples tied the knot in December and January.

Not exact matches

Privately held and family - owned, Levi's was one of the first companies to desegregate factories, to embrace same - sex marriage, and to educate employees about HIV / AIDS.

Something new is coming this tax season for some same - sex couples: For the first time, they will file as «married» on their federal return.

Graham's post, first reported on by the Charlotte Obsrver, also singled out the upper - crust jeweler Tiffany's for disapprobation for its advertising to same - sex couples.

Both Hetrick and Kauffman are mediators, and see first - hand how same - sex couples can overcome some of the legal hurdles through a collaborative approach to divorce.

First, they say, it just excludes too many parents — possibly dads, but also adoptive parents and same - sex couples.

The news comes as the first time in 37 years of the GSS, Americans in opposition to same sex relations were in the minority.

In the past decade, America has seen its first African - American president, the constitutional recognition of a right to same - sex marriage, and a new discourse on gender identity and workplace harassment.

And there could be no doubt of his progressive vision on other fronts as well: South Africa's post-apartheid constitution outlawed discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, the first country in Africa to do so, and the fifth in the world to legalize same - sex marriage.

The dominoes that Reilly sets up in his conclusion also fall too tidily: first divorce, then contraception, then — inevitably — same - sex affirmation.

Seattle's ceremony included 133 couples, who walked outside and down rain - slickened steps afterwards, where they were greeted by cheers, confetti and a brass band celebrating the first day same - sex couples could marry in Washington.

There will be friends who disagree with First Things on the issue of same - sex intimacy, but support it in other areas.

The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee has officially approved a plank involving the legalization of same - sex marriage for the first time, meaning that the issue will likely become part of the...

CNN: Conservative leader agrees to visit home of married gay couple for first time A conservative Christian leader who opposes same - sex marriage has agreed to the idea of dining at the home of a married gay couple, after saying he had never done so in an interview with CNN.

I do not believe our modern bibles handle the translation correctly and same sex orientation (approximately 90 % of the population at any given time) was never meant to be identified as a sinful thing in the first place.

On 29th March this year, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act will come into force, allowing gay people to get married for the first time in this country....

«For the first time tonight, same - sex marriage has been passed by popular vote in Maine and Maryland,» said Robert P. Jones, a Washington - based pollster who specializes in questions about politics and religion.

(CNN)-- Malaysia's first openly gay pastor has chosen Wednesday, coinciding with the country's Independence Day, to get married to his American partner in New York, barely a month after same - sex marriage became legalized there.

For the first time, more than half of Anglicans now believe same - sex relationships are acceptable, according a new British Social Attitudes survey.

For example, the person who wants to experience sex before marriage can no longer experience the joy of a real marital donation in its fullness: giving oneself totally and for the first time — that is, in a true virginal gift — and receiving the same gift from one's spouse.

«You are claiming first that homosexual and same - sex relationships are not the same.»

The first stresses the need to move beyond mere peer relationships to the formation of an intimate friendship with a person of the same sex.

The UCC became the first mainline Protestant denomination to officially support same - sex marriage in 2005.

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.

This Thursday, for the first time since he argued before the Supreme Court in 2013 for a constitutional right to same - sex marriage, Theodore Olson will be back in the Federalist Society limelight.

The first Church of England vicar to enter into a same - sex marriage has said bishops are afraid to be... More

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:

Same sex relationships should not be defined as equivalent to opposite sex relationships because, first and foremost, there is not a «unitive act» — marital act — that the couple can perform.

That's because same - sex behavior in the first century was not understood to be the expression of an exclusive sexual orientation but rather it was understood as excess on the part of those who could easily be content with heterosexual relationships, but who went beyond them in search of more exotic pleasures.

And, yes, Bishop Rimbo will conduct his first same - sex union in June, although his «conversion» on the issue occurred long ago in the 1980s.

MP David Burrowes, chair of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, led the parliamentary opposition to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, and more than 600,000 people signed a petition led by the Coalition for Marriage against the Bill when it was first proposed in 2012.

The move made it the first branch of the Anglican faith in the UK to allow same - sex marriage and was welcomed by equal rights campaigners.

CS Lewis is actually the first person in church history to make the logical conclusion that the inevitable result of same sex attraction is celibacy.

First with the other sex, then with the same.

Ironically, the 2016 — 2017 Supreme Court roundup also appearing in the October issue of First Things («A Less Corrupt Term») quotes Justice Samuel Alito saying of the Court's majority opinion on same - sex marriage that it «evidences... the deep and perhaps irremediable corruption of our legal culture's conception of constitutional interpretation.»

This left him with three options, as he saw it: the first was to hide his same - sex attraction and marry a woman in spite of his lack of attraction to her, which he felt would be unfair to both himself and the woman in such a relationship; the second was to pursue a relationship with another guy, which he had trouble reconciling with what he'd been taught regarding the Bible's teachings on homosexuality; and the third option was to remain celibate, which left Justin with the prospect of being alone for the rest of his life.

This marks the first time for any state to legalize same - sex marriage by the expressed will of the people rather than through court rulings or legislation.

«A same - sex couple,» Wolterstorff affirms, «can provide or exhibit all of [these goods] except for the first part of the third,» which is to do with procreation.

- United Church of Christ: The United Church of Christ was the first mainstream Christian church to fully support same - sex marriage and perform marriage ceremonies.

But more unexpectedly, given that Hawaii was one of the first states where the issue surfaced, a Hawaii state representative has caused waves for becoming the first openly gay lawmaker to vote against a state's same - sex marriage bill.

The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee has officially approved a plank involving the legalization of same - sex marriage for the first time, meaning that the issue will likely become part of the Democratic Party's official platform.

Today as never before the Church is equipped to address same - sex issues in the first person, to speak of same - sex attraction in terms of «I» rather than «you.»

First tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic relationsFirst tale: A tenured sociologist at a prominent research university, with a couple of books under his belt on related subjects, publishes the first - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic relationsfirst - ever research, using a nationally representative sample, on the young - adult outcomes for kids raised by people who have same - sex romantic relationships.

A federal appeals court on May 31st ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it denies equal rights for legally married same - sex couples, making it likely that the Supreme Court will consider the politically divisive issue for the first time in its next term.

Regnerus offered the first example of sound social science questioning what the elite in the academy and media desperately want to believe — that same - sex marriage will have absolutely no negative fallout for the young and vulnerable.

It was the Jewish philosopher Philo who first explicitly linked Sodom's sins to same - sex behavior, and his idea caught on.